Since her family experienced the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, she could empathize with experiencing a natural disaster. It was during this period of time that she heard Lanesha’s voice and was inspired to write Ninth Ward (“Day 26”). She couldn’t imagine the children having to experience the feelings of fear and displacement again that they had already experienced during Hurricane Katrina. In 2008 when Hurricane Ike was once again threatening New Orleans, Rhodes was horrified at the thought of the children of New Orleans having to experience a hurricane all over again. Inspiration for another children’s novel didn’t strike until 2005 after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
She wrote her first children’s book, bound in yellow construction paper, when she was eight years old (“Day 26”).
Rhodes has had a love for reading and writing since she was young child. Jewell Parker Rhodes is a successful African-American author, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1954 (Rhodes).
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