Through the Highlights Foundation and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), she began studying the art and craft of writing picture books. After the birth of her first child, she rediscovered her childhood love of picture books and realized that she wanted to try her hand at creating her own picture book texts. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Teaching in English Education from the University of Virginia, Anne Marie taught middle and high school English and Language Arts for about five years. Anne Marie Pace’s mother has claimed that Anne Marie’s first sentence was “please read,” and while Anne Marie doesn’t remember saying that, she certainly remembers spending much of her childhood reading stacks of books from the library and filling manila folders with her own stories and poems.
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