A quote on a mirror in Caitlin Clark’s childhood home inspires her new children's book

NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark has been an avid reader since she was a kid, thanks in huge part to her mother.Now the Indiana Fever star can add writer to her ever-growing resume with a new children's book, “EXTRAordinary! A Little EXTRA to Reach BIG Dreams," that comes out Tuesday.“I grew up loving to read books,” Clark said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “My mom was an English major in college. She's a bookworm, she reads a lot of books, so she helped me a little bit with this.”It's a picture book published by Random House Books for Young Readers that's written in rhyming verse. Clark first thought about not having it rhyme, but she said it just worked better that way.“Everything that you see, I always have a part in,” Clark said of her involvement with the book. “I want people to know I put a lot of time and effort into that.”The book was inspired by a quote that's on a mirror in her childhood home: "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little EXT