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A Shiloh Christmas: Interview with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

December 24, 2015 Alyson Beecher

A Shiloh Christmas
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (September 22, 2015)
Audience: Grades 4 to 7
Fiction * Family * Dogs
Indiebound | WorldCat

Description from GoodReads: A rescued beagle and his boy owner seek love and understanding for their troubled small town in this holiday companion to the Newbery Medal–winning Shiloh, from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

Christmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are sure glad about that—for their town is sure low on love and understanding and they hope that the joy of the holiday will bring with it the generosity of spirit that’s so lacking.

It’s been a year since Marty Preston rescued Shiloh from Judd Travers and his cruel ways, and since then, Marty and Shiloh have been inseparable. Anywhere Marty goes, the beagle’s at his side, and Marty couldn’t be happier about that. Even Judd has been working to improve his reputation.

But just as townsfolk grow more accepting of Judd, a fire in the woods destroys many homes, including Judd’s, and Judd’s newly formed reputation. Doubt, blame, and anger spread faster than the flames—flames that are fanned by the new minister, who seems fonder of fire and brimstone than love and mercy. And why are his daughters so skittish around him? And what’s happened to Judd’s dogs? With Christmas right around the corner, Marty has a lot of questions, and how they’re answered might just take a Christmas miracle.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s fourth book in the Newbery Award–winning Shiloh series—following Shiloh, Shiloh Season, andSaving Shiloh—is full of heart-thudding suspense, as well as comfort and joy.

Thank  you for Phyllis Reynolds Naylor for stopping by Kid Lit Frenzy to answer a few questions.

This is the 4th book in the Shiloh series. The last one (Saving Shiloh) was published in 1997. What prompted you to continue the story?

There was still something I felt that needed to be dealt with--Judd's restitution as a member of the community.  The movie producers were interested in a Shiloh Christmas story, and as I thought it over, the whole thing seemed to come together for me: just as the first Shiloh books dealt with the gray areas between right and wrong, the last book deals with enemy versus friend, and Marty's belief that religion--which also plays a part--- should bring people together, not separate them.  By the end of the third book, Judd Travers has redeemed himself by saving Shiloh, but he still needs to pitch in and contribute to the community, and in "A Shiloh Christmas," he finds a way.

Shiloh is a beloved book. What is one way that writing about this special dog and the people/community around him changed you or your life?

Well, it's certainly kept me busier.  Because many schools have added Shiloh to the curriculum, I get an enormous amount of assigned letters ( "my favorite character is....because...."  "the book made me sad (happy, angry) because...."  Etc.  And of course I've done much more traveling and speaking because of the Shiloh series than I ever had before.  But just thinking and writing about the resiliency of this rural family brought back so many memories of how my own parents guided us through the Depression, and made me appreciate anew the creativity of people who struggle to keep a household going, and their joy in simple pleasures.

Over the years, you have probably received an amazing number of letters from children. Any one letter stand out from all the others? Was there a very funny letter? Please share.

Two letters in particular brought tears to my eyes.  A teacher had obviously assigned each child in her class to copy a letter she either dictated or wrote on the board that read, "Dear Mrs. Naylor:  Our class started to read Shiloh, but there are two bad words in your book, and we will not finish it.  We will not buy any more of your books and we will tell all our friends not to read your books until you stop using vulger (her spelling, not mine) words in your books."  Each letter was dutifully signed by a child and folded in half, but two boys, using pencils with very sharp lead, had printed, in the tiniest letters along that gray crease, "But we love your book anyway."  

A letter that made me laugh, was a child telling me about all the pets inhis family, then all the members of his family and their characteristics, and of his brother, all he wrote was, "His head is bigger than mine."  Another letter, instead of telling me the state or city in which he lived, began, "I live on earth...."

As the new year approaches, what advice or insight do you have for children or adults who want to write a story?

Write it as you would tell it out loud.  Read each paragraph aloud to see how it sounds.  Put it away for a month or a week or an hour and come back to it to see how you feel about it then--what changes you might make.  If you have trouble thinking of a good topic, think about the time you were most embarrassed, most angry, were the most sad or scared.  Write a short paragraph about it.  Then rewrite it, making it happen to someone else.  Maybe even make it funny.  Put a different beginning or ending on it--turn it over to your imagination and give it wings. The best stories come from some deep emotion in the writer, and blossom into stories everyone can enjoy.

A video interview with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor on Reading Rockets:

About the author: 
At 82, Newbery Medal–winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has been tugging at heartstrings for generations with a little beagle called Shiloh—including my own. Since making his first appearance in 1991, Shiloh has been the pup who stole our hearts in three beloved books that have sold more than two million copies. It’s been 18 years since Saving Shiloh, and now, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor revisits the Shiloh series for a Christmas adventure in A Shiloh Christmas (Atheneum; Ages 8-12; 9/22/15; ISBN 9781481441513;$17.99).  

Phyllis has written more than 135 books and A Shiloh Christmas, the final book in the Newbery Award–winning Shiloh series—following Shiloh, Shiloh Season, and Saving Shiloh—is full of heart-thudding suspense, as well as comfort and joy.


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Interview with Author: Claudia Mills

December 18, 2015 Alyson Beecher

The Trouble With Ants (The Nora Notebooks)
by Claudia Mills; Illustrated by Katie Kath
Knopf Books for Young Readers (September 22, 2015)
Audience: 2nd to 4th grade
Fiction * Friendship * Ants

Description from Goodreads: 
Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora has ants all figured out—now she just has to try to understand her fellow humans!
 
The trouble with ants is . . .
. . . people think they’re boring.
. . . they are not cuddly.
. . . who would ever want them for a pet?
 
Nora Alpers is using her new notebook to record the behavior of ants. Why? Because they are fascinating! Unfortunately, no one agrees with her. Her mom is not happy about them being in the house, and when Nora brings her ant farm to school for show and tell, her classmates are not very impressed. They are more interested in cat videos, basketball practice, or trying to set a Guinness World Record (although Nora wouldn’t mind that).
 
Mostly they are distracted by the assignment their teacher Coach Joe has given them—to write a persuasive speech and change people’s minds about something. Will Nora convince her friends that ants are as interesting as she thinks they are? Or will everyone still think of ants as nothing but trouble?
 
With real science facts, a classroom backdrop, an emphasis on friendship, and appealing black-and-white interior illustrations from artist Katie Kath, The Nora Notebooks is perfect for newly independent readers—especially budding scientists like Nora!—and adults who want to encourage awareness of STEM subjects in young readers.

Thank you Claudia Mills for stopping by Kid Lit Frenzy to answer a few questions about your newest series THE NORA NOTEBOOKS: THE TROUBLE WITH ANTS. 

In The TROUBLE WITH ANTS, Nora loves science and finds herself advocating for ants. This reminds me of my first year of teaching and having to do a unit on insects. And students coming up to me to show what bugs they found on the playground. Do you have a favorite insect and how would you advocate for it?

Great question! My favorite insect is one that, sadly, doesn’t live where I now do, in Boulder, Colorado: the firefly that brightened summer nights of my New Jersey childhood. I don’t think fireflies need much advocacy, because it’s so lovely to see trees and bushes at dusk festooned with their flickering light. But if they did, I’d probably write poems about fireflies to help others see their magic and beauty.

Are there any children's nonfiction books about ants that would pair well with TROUBLE WITH ANTS? 

Alas, I don’t know of any. I used the terrific book for grownups, Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, for my own research. But there are a lot of ant books out there targeted to young readers.

With an emphasis on STEM in schools today, did this influence your choice in making Nora a science enthusiast? 

No. I tend not to focus on current educational trends and needs, though perhaps I should. It’s the character who comes first for me when I write. I had already introduced Nora as a secondary character in my Mason Dixon series, and I just felt it was time for her to have a series of her own. Then, as I wrote about her, I came to share her love for the marvels of the natural world.

Will there be more books in the Nora Notebook series? What projects are you currently working on that you can share with us?

Two more Nora books are in the works. In THE TROUBLE WITH BABIES, Nora gets a chance to study the science of human infants up close when she becomes a new aunt to baby Nellie. In THE TROUBLE WITH FRIENDS, Nora and her total-opposite classmate Emma finally forge a true friendship after a misunderstanding that shows Nora how the social world of school needs careful scientific observation, too.

Many of your books are for 2nd to 4th graders, what is it like to write for this age group? Any challenges or things that are particularly fun about writing early chapter books and early middle grade? 

I adore writing for this age group; it’s the absolute best! My child characters and child readers in that age group are so bright and sophisticated, but still have their childhood sweetness. The shorter length of the books forces me, as an author, to keep my pacing peppy, moving the stories forward with lots of humor-filled scenes. And early chapter books and middle grade novels often have black-and-white illustrations throughout, and it’s such fun to see how illustrators add their own depth of detail to my characters. I’m totally smitten with the pictures of Nora drawn by the brilliant Katie Kath.

What was your favorite book or series from when you were in 4th grade?

The Betsy-Tacy books of Maud Hart Lovelace (Betsy-Tacy; Betsy-Tacy and Tib; Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill; Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown). They remain my favorite books in the world to this day. Readers of that series should be able to see echoes of Lovelace’s dryly comic voice in my own writing.

The New Year is just around the corner - if you make any resolutions, are there any that you care to share - even if you are just entertaining them at the moment.

I always make the same one: to fill my life with as much creative joy as possible. I try to do this in all kinds of ways: writing in different, cozy places; making writing dates with other author friends; reading new wonderful books as they are published; and connecting with readers through school visits to share the creative joy of writing with them as well.

Photo Credit: Larry Harwood

Photo Credit: Larry Harwood

About the author: 
Claudia Mills is the author of over fifty books for young readers. She does not personally keep an ant farm, but she does have a cat, Snickers, with whom she curls up on her couch at home in Boulder, Colorado, drinking hot chocolate and writing. To learn more, and to download free curriculum guides for her books, visit her website at claudiamillsauthor.com

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How to Tell a Story Week: Interview with Illustrator Brian Won

November 5, 2015 Alyson Beecher

This week Jen Vincent from Teach Mentor Texts, Jennifer Reed from Reederama, Cynthia Alaniz from Librarian in Cute Shoes, and I are celebrating How to Tell a Story by Daniel Nayeri and Illustrated by Brian Won. I am excited to have Brian on the blog to share about his work on this project.  Thanks Brian for stopping by.

How to Tell a Story seems like a different type of project to work on than say an actual book. What did you have to take into consideration when working on this project with Daniel?

Although this project was different than illustrating a book, it was just as enjoyable and in some ways, more challenging. Ironically, the illustrations didn’t need to “tell a story” but convey an emotion, action, or location as quickly as possible. The dimensions of the cube faces are about 1.5 x 1.5 inches so my main goal was to make the illustrations simple and engaging. Also, I had to take into account the sheer number of illustrations required for all the sides of the dice, about 120. Categories like People, Places, and Things were easier to represent while Emotions, Relationships, and Verbs required more conceptual thinking. 

Can you share your process for determining which images would represent what on the blocks? Was it collaborative? Did you do research in order to decide? 

Daniel was absolutely fantastic to work with. He supplied an initial list of ideas and if I hit any roadblocks, he would provide several more options. Also art director, Colleen Venable, was instrumental as a sounding board. Early on I sent Daniel vector sketches, but soon found that to be time consuming. My usual work process doesn’t involve pencil sketches, but with so many moving parts, pencil sketches were far more effective. We were able to see if not only the illustration was working, but if the word itself needed to be changed. Below are some examples of rejected sketches and themes. Tied Together, still makes me smile. 

Are there any you are particularly proud of?

I am most proud of the illustration that represents Sail. It reminds me of when I’m driving with my son and I tell him to look out the window at the beautiful mountains. He has zero interest. 

How do you hope your artwork might inspire young writers?

I hope the artwork and the book will show young writers that writing is fun. I tend to put writing on a pedestal. I get tripped up with grammar and feel inadequate even when constructing an email. However, we can all tell a joke or talk about the crazy thing that happened five minutes ago. These are stories, wonderful stories worth telling and writing. 

What is your favorite indie bookstore (where is it and why do you like it)?

My favorite indie bookstore is Vromans in Pasadena. I have fond memories of my mom buying us books there when we were kids. My younger sister would get one of the Babysitters Club books and I would get something Roald Dahl. 

Finish the statements: “Reading is…” and “Writing is…”

“Reading is… the best thing you can do with a kid. Not even for the sake of the child, but for yourself. The day doesn’t seem so bad after a shared book.”

“Writing is.. whittling a golf pencil from a sequoia tree.”

What are you reading and loving right now (or recently)? 

Thanks to my friend, Renee Kurilla, I am reading Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. I highly recommend this book for both writers and illustrators. 

“Forgive yourself if you tried to create something and it didn’t work out. Remember that you’re nothing but a beginner – even if you’ve been working on your craft for years. We’re all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

What is the best writing advice you have received and what advice would you give student writers?

“When you are going good, stop writing. You don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? You make yourself stop and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next.” – Roald Dahl. 

This also applies to illustration. Fiddling with your chair, checking the basketball score, Facebook – its all a distraction from actually starting. Student writers, have something good to come back to so you aren’t afraid to begin. 

To find Brian: website | twitter | facebook

Check out the other posts in this blog tour:

November 3, 2015 - How to Tell a Story Week Kick-Off - Teach Mentor Texts and Kid Lit Frenzy
November 4, 2015 - Jennifer Reed at Reederama and her students play How to Tell a Story
November 5, 2015 - Illustrator, Brian Won visits Kid Lit Frenzy
November 6, 2015 - Author/Creator, Daniel Nayeri visits Teach Mentor Texts
November 9, 2015 - Cynthia Alaniz at Librarian in Cute Shoes and her students play How to Tell a Story
November 10, 2015 - How to Tell A Story - Share your "Why Game" stories - Teach Mentor Texts and Kid Lit Frenzy

Enter to win a copy of How to Tell a Story: 

We hope you'll check out How To Tell a Story and visit the various blog posts we'll have up to celebrate #howtotellastory week!

Thanks for stopping by and celebrating with us! We do have a giveaway as well. Thank you to Workman Publishing, we have a copy of How To Tell a Story available to five lucky winners with a US mailing address and the sixth winner picked will win a Skype visit with creator, Daniel Nayeri.


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Author Interview: Antoinette Portis

August 13, 2015 Alyson Beecher

WAIT
by Antoinette Portis
Roaring Brook Press (July 14, 2015)
Audience: Ages 3 to 5 years
Fiction * Patience * Mother/Son
IndieBound | WorldCat
 

Description of the book: 
As a boy and his mother move quickly through the city, they're drawn to different things. The boy sees a dog, a butterfly, and a hungry duck while his mother rushes them toward the departing train. It's push and pull, but in the end, they both find something to stop for.

Acclaimed author/illustrator Antoinette Portis' signature style conveys feelings of warmth, curiosity, humor and tenderness in this simple, evocative story.

Quick thoughts on the book:
With two words, Portis beautifully captures the daily waltz of a mother and son as they navigate their day. 

Brightly illustrated pages and the words "Hurry!" or "Wait!" take readers through an all too familiar experience. 

The small twist at the end was charming. 

Look for WAIT at your local indie bookstore or community library.

Interview with author/illustrator, Antoinette Portis:

WAIT is a book that is easy to relate to. Was it prompted by a personal experience (backstory)?

It’s based on a little vignette that unfolded in front of me as I was sitting in a café. A toddler and mom walked by, but he broke away from her to come over and peer at a bug on the windowsill right in front of me. His mom came back, grabbed his hand and trotted him off down the street—clearly in a rush. I thought, “That’s a book!”  I identified with the little boy, of course, not the mom. I thought how frustrating it would be to walk down the street with never any control over the pace or the destination.

But as I’ve been talking about Wait, I’ve been thinking about my own experience of being a busy working mom with a toddler. The times I slowed down to my daughter’s pace and we noodled around the neighborhood or the park, maybe collecting leaves and interesting seedpods, were some of my favorite times ever. Her curiosity and appreciation of everything around her re-opened my artist’s eyes.

The book’s ending is a tribute to those moments when the child becomes your teacher.

I have been looking at a number of picture books recently that have minimal words and rely heavily on the illustrations to tell the story. Some are written and illustrated by different people. However, in your book, you were able to illustrate the text.  Is the process any different in a book such as this vs. one with many more words?

The fewer the words, the more work the pictures have to do. You have to make things clear visually that otherwise would be communicated in the text. That’s a fun puzzle to work out.

In the case of Wait, having a simple text and text structure allowed me to let go of worrying about the words and concentrate on deepening the pictures. Ideas would just pop up, like having the boy pointing to a rainbow popsicle that foreshadows the rainbow at the end. Like little gifts from the muse, these visual connections made the book richer.

The interplay of the words and pictures is the particular art of the picture book. That’s one thing about illustrating your own writing—you can freely hack away at your text. You’re only offending yourself if you delete a line because it duplicates something that the picture is communicating.

Speaking of process, what is your creative process when working on a book? Do you have any daily routines? Where do you like to work? 

We turned our den into my studio. It’s a pretty big room, which is lucky, because I have a lot of stuff! Kind of a collector—of picture books, old school children’s dictionaries, rocks, vintage toys, cardboard packaging (little found sculptures!), etc., etc.

This is a small part of my picture book collection. The house is littered with bookcases full of them.

A messy corner with stuff I like to look at.

I have a drafting table for drawing, several work tables, some flat files, and a computer desk with my Mac and Cintiq. I tend to let clutter accumulate till it makes me crazy and then I clean up and start the cycle all over again.

Re process:
Every book is a little bit different, but I usually start with the text. I take it to my writing group and go through a couple of rounds of revisions. When the story is working (more or less), I storyboard it thumbnail size to see how it paginates.

Next comes a dummy with the text and rough drawings scanned into Photoshop. Here’s where a lot of text cutting happens, because the visuals start claiming their territory. It becomes clear to me where the picture should the lead and the text become a supporting player. (And vice versa.)

Sometimes I skip the thumbnail step, out of impatience, and go straight to making a dummy from a manuscript. Not a good idea, since it's way more efficient to figure out pacing and composition using thumbnails. So I’m trying to be more disciplined about not skipping that step.

I end up, always, making lots and lots of dummies—at least 30 per book. Working on the computer makes it easy to do multiple variations. Here’s a page from the first version of “Wait,”

when the book was called “But…” and the mom had more dialog.

Are there any future projects that you are working on that you can tell us about?

I have a book coming out later this year, the first book I’ve ever illustrated that I didn’t write. It’s a love story called The Red Hat. It was a pleasure to have David Teague’s beautiful and understated text as a launching pad for pictures. And because it wasn’t my manuscript, I didn’t have to do my usual obsessive tinkering with the text. 50% less stress!

I have another book I did with Neal Porter coming out next spring, Best Frints in the Whole Universe, about two cranky alien friends. It’s all about the funny. A completely different vibe than “Wait”—wild and boisterous.

Thank you to Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press for some sneak peaks:

Here is another peak:

And the final peak:

If you could spend the afternoon with four or five authors or illustrators (living or dead), who would you invite and what would you serve?

I had the opportunity to one of the first Sendak Fellows and I miss Maurice like crazy. I would invite him with Winsor McKay (creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland), and William Nicholson, two artists he admired.

Nicholson is the author of The Pirate Twins, a book Maurice called “The first ­– the best – the most gloriously original modern picture book of all time.” The pirate twins are two dolls (made from black socks) who belong to a little girl. One day they steal a boat and run away, leaving this note: “For Mary We have gone for ever Dont worry Back soon Love form B & A” [spelling mistakes are in the original]. The sudden turn from “gone for ever” to “back soon” was what Maurice loved. The pirates’ note was such a true example of the way kids think. Contradictions aren’t contradictory to them.

You can see it here.

I’d round the party out by inviting Blexbolex (Seasons) and Joohee Yoon (Beastly Verse), because I love their work so much.

Maurice liked a nice pastrami sandwich followed by a vanilla cupcake, so that’s what I’m serving up.

What is your favorite indie bookstore?

I come from a book-loving family and Vroman’s in Pasadena was the place we went. My grandmother often gave books for Christmas or birthdays, and my siblings and I have many well-loved books with small brown Vroman’s stickers inside the back cover. Vroman’s is part of my family history.

This is Margaret Wise Brown’s “Where Have You Been”, illustrated by Barbara Cooney. My grandmother gave it to me when I was three. It’s battered and broken but still stickered.

 But I’ve never met an indie I didn’t like. I’m sure that heaven is a bookstore.

Thank you Antoinette for stopping by Kid Lit Frenzy to answer a few questions.

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WISH Giveaway and Interview with Author/Illustrator Matthew Cordell

July 14, 2015 Alyson Beecher

WISH
By Matthew Cordell
Disney-Hyperion (3/03/2015)
Audience: Ages 3 – 5
Indiebound | WorldCat

About the book: 
As an elephant couple embark on a life together, thoughts of children are far away–at first. But as the desire for a child grows, so do unexpected challenges. And it's only after thwarted plans and bitter disappointment that their deepest wish miraculously comes true.

Check out the official book trailer:

Quick thoughts on the book:
I have been a fan of Matthew Cordell's work for quite awhile. I love his style and the books that he chooses to create or work on. I had an opportunity to see WISH as a folded and gathered (an advanced copy of the book). It was charming and you could feel the depth of emotion felt by the elephant couple in the story. 

Here are some glimpses of the inside interior of the book:

The planning, and hoping, and waiting and passage of time. 

The text and the illustrations compliment and reach out and touch the heart of those who read this book. 

WISH is a personal story (see the interview below) and one that couples in your own life may relate to on various levels and have different meanings for each reader. WISH is an inspirational book. I was super impressed in how it inspired Margie Myers-Culver, a Michigan Librarian, to donate 200 copies of WiSH to her community hospital to giveaway to families of newborn babies in memory of her mother. Here is a link to the letters she exchanged with Matthew, click here.  Matthew followed up with a blog post of his own, here. And here is a link to a final post with a special video created by Margie to capture the process. 

Now if all of this hasn't convinced you to find a copy of WISH and read and share it, I am not sure what else will. :-) So what are you waiting for? You can pick up a copy of WISH at your local indie bookstore or public library. 

Interview with Matthew Cordell:

If you could describe your book in 2 sentences, how would you describe it to someone? 

Wish tells the story of the incredible, emotional journey that is welcoming a child into the world. The inexplicably amazing moment of first meeting a child, but also the very highs and lows that can turn up along the way.

WISH has an element of friendship, belonging, or the hope for something very special, what did you draw on to get the emotional element just right in the story?

This book is very a personal one for me. My wife and I struggled for years before becoming pregnant with our first child. And again with our second. It was a difficult and, at times, very heartbreaking road. It can be a very grim and isolated place to be. As time went on, we realized that so many couples everywhere are dealing with the same struggles that we were. I wanted to share our story in a picture book so that parents who had endured similar challenges could share with their children just how meaningful and important it was that these children--these families--could become a reality.

Any new projects that you are working on that you can share with us? 

I'm currently working on illustrating a picture book by authors Audrey Vernick and Liz Garton Scanlon titled BOB NOT BOB with Disney-Hyperion. Also writing and illustrating my first wordless picture book with Feiwel and Friends.

Summer and vacations go hand-in-hand. If you could go on vacation with your favorite book character (either in your own book or from someone else's book) who would you vacation with and what would you do? 

Hmm... since the elephants in WISH are based on my wife and myself... There's no one else I'd rather go on vacation with than my wife. And we couldn't leave without our kiddos. I'd love it if we all got to go to Australia. (We could even be elephants!)

About the author: 
att Cordell personally knows what it's like to wish. In fact, this book is the heartfelt windfall of him waiting for his wish come true a second time.  Other books Matt has written and illustrated include hello! hello!, Another Brother, and Trouble Gum. He lives in Chicago with his wife, a young daughter, and an even younger son. Visit matthewcordell.com to learn more.

Thank you to Disney Hyperion for offering a giveaway of this very special book. To enter the giveaway, please complete the rafflecopter below. Winners must be 13 years or older and have an US mailing address.


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