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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 and Lynn Munsinger have been together through thick and thin since first publishing The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken in 1983. They have collaborated on the hilarious Tacky the Penguin series and many other wildly funny and popular titles, including the award-winning Hooway for Wodney Wat. Helen Lester is a full-time writer who makes her home in Pawling, New York, and Lynn Munsinger is a full-time illustrator living in Massachusetts.
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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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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0395827442
- ISBN 13 9780395827444
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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