Chuck Richards is an artist who has been teaching college-level drawing to first year art and design majors for the past twenty years.
One day he was riding his bike past an elementary school playground with a fantastic, large wooden play structure and thought that it would be a useful tool for teaching his students linear perspective. At the same time, his children were bringing home amazing picture books. The two events combined to spark the idea for Jungle Gym Jitters, which took five years to create. Jungle Gym Jitters marks his debut as a picture-book artist.