I told you that I sent it home with a woman who works with my wife so her three young daughters could check it out, right? Well little Olivia, who is four, loved it. I have been told she laughed very hard, and insisted it be read to her many times. Then she told her mom to put it under her pillow so she could keep it forever.
I’m not getting the very first copy of my book back… ever… am I?
So if you have kids under the age of 5… or 6… or maybe 7… go over there to the sidebar and click on the picture of the book… Christmas is coming… and kids should read more… it’s good for them.
Pouring My Art Out 
I knew it. I told you the book spoke to me at first sight and I judged it right by its cover. What do you expect when a writer writes with a monkey’s tail!
Kids book, sci- fi, murder mystery… I am a triple threat.
Nice one there!
Don’t encourage my egomania!!!
I hope to discourage it by being sincere with you always so you know you have not done well when I don’t compliment you well.
I will try not to let you down.
Fair and noble enough.
I might… but I will try not to.
Good enough.
Best I can do.
Good enough for me.
Excellent.
One day that book is going to be worth a lot of money. They’ll be rich. They will travel the world with the money they got from selling that book. And may be, they’ll have enough money left over for a time machine.
That stinks.
Look at the bright side. schuplhauzz schtupped my bitterbed.
That sounds dirty…
Awesome. I don’t blame her for not giving it back.
It was a collectors item… first copy… typo on the very last word… but yeah…
Whoa. Demanding a repeat repeat repeat read? Excellent news!
You can’t go wrong with monkeys…
they are the best critics of a children’s book, i’d trust their opinion )
I trust them… I let them pick my fashions.
me too, and it works out quite well )
It’s the adults I don’t trust…
Olivia has very good taste.
Kids are never wrong!
huzzzzah for the monkey book — sounds like a HIT !!!
Which isn’t the same thing as selling lots of copies… yet…
Get another copy of the book and have a calligrapher do a personalized plate for your wife’s friend, you autograph the book and pose with a picture for her and give her a framed drawing of her favorite monkey from the book. That may get you the first copy back. Just don’t wait too long if that’s what you decide to do. Tell her mother so she can lay the ground work. I’ll bet if you told her, one child to another how special that copy was to you, she would trade you for another copy. Don;t forget to read her personal copy to her, sitting on your lap in front of a webcam. That would really be special. She’ll tell you where you are reading the line all wrong too. Kids are like that. Remember?
I could just break in and steal it.
Well, there is that too. A lot less trouble and a more certain way of getting the book back. Don’t forget to steal her piggy bank too. That’ll throw the cops of since they will be looking for a robber and not a petty book thief. Just tell ’em you were blogging at the time for an alibi. I’ll back you up.
It is a collectors item… one typo on the very last word.
I kind of wish I had kids under age of 5, so that I could buy your book for them.
Well that’s why I do books for big people too.
Congrats!
thanks
I posted the chapter with you in it… hope you aren’t disappointed… but at least you don’t get killed…
I wish I had some little kids to read it too… 😦
I’ll have to wait for the e-book…
I don’t think the monkey book is going to be on e-readers.
Boo hooooo!
Jess says it wouldn’t make sense… you need to see the pictures big.
Yes, yes, I know what you mean. I would write a children’s picture book if I were to write any book at all, and research shows that e-books are not the ‘ideal,’ although there are some quite clever ‘templates’ out there that make it all fit together nicely on the screen. They cost though. I will have to think about how to afford the e-book. Maybe someone will hire me to play the part of the barmaid in some London murder mystery movie.
Ha
I’m happy your book is a.hit.
well, one kid loved it… thanks.
K. Yw.
w.t.h.?
Then one day the kid will like Miley Cyrus and suddenly you’ll have no clue where you stand in life.
That hurts… and is probably true.