You always have different stories coming. I have two coming up with Scholastic. Rita and Ralph, which is a retelling of an old librarian’s hand game.
So Rita and Ralph up the hill and down the hill and up the hill and down the hill. And it’s about meeting in the middle. And in the fractious world we’re in it’s about best friends who have a fight and each goes all the way over here and then only to end up in another fight and the other one goes all the way over here and end in another fight and now they’re both unhappy and they’re both angry and one morning they just do what they’ve always done the go down the hill and up the hill and they meet in the middle.
And it’s … I love … but it’s very simple and it’s for young readers.
The second one is Mean Squirrels. It’s got to be done. Too many mean squirrels out there. And so my granddaughter who’s seven inspired this story. And it’s really wicked, because you know collective noun for mean squirrels, a spite of squirrels and so forth. So it’s just been so much fun coming up with sort of this book and not making mean squirrels even the villains. They have something to learn.