17/28: Stinkalope Tex and the Poopapotamus
Completing the Stinkalope Tex “seasons” quadrilogy. I had the idea for the title of this book way back when i was finishing up the first Stinkalope Tex book, but it took a bunch of years until i wrote it. It's got a lot of poop in it.
Completing the Stinkalope Tex “seasons” quadrilogy. I had the idea for the title of this book way back when i was finishing up the first Stinkalope Tex book, but it took a bunch of years until i wrote it. It's got a lot of poop in it.
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Ben Hatke is an author of books and graphic novels who i very much admire. In early September of 2019, his four-and-a-half year old daughter was killed in a horse-related accident. This tore me up, but i got the idea of a story about a little girl who stops growing up.
My dog Bulo got into the chicken coop at my friends’ farm and killed 44 of the 48 chicks in it. One of the four survivors was the only brown chicken. This horrible gory story about a chicken surviving being killed over and over came out of my head.
I’d had the idea for this for a while and came up with most of the rhymes while out on dog walks. Every letter is a nice sound effect with a rhyming couplet about it. Illustrated (fantastically!) by Len Peralta.
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Having had a children's book editor note that my stories sounded “too much like Dr. Seuss,” i went ahead and wrote a Dr. Seuss story.
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators was having a contest—fifty scary short stories, 1 from each state. This was the second idea i had, a rhyming children's book type story. It is specific to Vermont and mentions places along the Long Trail.
A rhyming excursion from planet to planet, each one having a problem that makes them unlivable. The travellers in the story eventually end back home on Planet Zero—Earth, with a pledge to take care of it. Always wanted to see this one illustrated with all different artists.