In her new children’s book “Anything,” Newbery Award-winner and native New Yorker Rebecca Stead follows a father and daughter as they navigate life amid moving apartments.

Through a series of wishes and adventures, the young girl learns that the feeling of “home” can take many forms.

In an interview on “Mornings On 1” Thursday, Stead shared the story was inspired by her own childhood—one she first put to paper two decades ago.

“My parents divorced when I was young, and my mom stayed in our first apartment. She is still there, 57 years later. And my dad was a big mover. So he and I moved many times,” she said.

She acknowledged how difficult that kind of transition can be for a child, which partially inspired her to write the story.

“You get attached to the little things when you're small,” she said. “In the story, the little girl talks about missing the ‘spicy smell’ in her coat closet at her old apartment, and that's the kind of thing I do remember about all of my New York apartments.”