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So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, she demonstrates that hurdles are part of the process. She even gives writing tips, such as keeping a "fizzle box." Helen Lester uses her unique ability to laugh at her mistakes to create both a guide for young writers and an amusing personal story of the disappointments and triumphs of a writer's life.
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Helen Lester has written many hilarious and popular picture books, including the Tacky the Penguin series and Hooway for Wodney Wat. She lives in New York. www.helenlester.com
Gr. 2^-4. Lester's wry, funny, illustrated autobiography has the immediacy of an author's visit to the library or the classroom. There is no bragging; in fact, she talks a lot about disappointment and failure, from a problem in first grade with her "mirror writing" to her repeated rejections as an adult author. Her comic cartoons are as direct and unassuming as the words: on one page she contrasts her own cartoon of a pig with her illustrator Lynn Munsinger's virtuoso performance. Kids will recognize themselves in Lester's eagerness (as a three-year-old she knew exactly what her writing said; even upside down, the words said the same thing), and they will be encouraged by her persistence and by her admission that writing is hard; sometimes she just can't come up with a single idea. Sometimes, though, ideas come so fast she can barely write them down. Both modest and celebratory, this book is a lively answer to that inevitable question, Where do you get your ideas? Hazel Rochman
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