Virginia's lifelong desire to write and her sense of wonder led her to create stories for children. Her interest in using informal geometry (in the form of the ancient Chinese puzzle “seven clever boards”) to strengthen students’ visual-learning abilities led to The Warlord’s Puzzle, the first of her Warlord’s series. Believing a good picture book can help children process math concepts in three ways she has completed seven more mathematical adventures. In each, bright pictures to give visual clues, a story begging to be read aloud gives auditory clues, and a simple craft to gives tactical kinesthetic clues to enrich children’s learning.