There is a serious flaw in being copywriter around here. I hear about and work with awesome books long before they’re published . . . and then by the time they actually hit shelves in lovely book form I forget to follow up and grab a copy. (Shame!) Time to take a moment, look back over the last few catalogs, and make up my literary Christmas list:
For my sister:
Brother Hugo and the Bear
Katy Beebe
Illustrated by S. D. Schindler
My younger sister, brave and virtuous woman that she is, teaches science to eighth-graders. She’s only in her first year, so I don’t know how many creative excuses she’s yet received for missing homework. I imagine they will pile up as she continues to teach.
None of them, obviously, will be as good as “the bear ate my library book!” — though one…
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