1. In case you haven’t read “Aline and her Sad Stuff,” it’s widely recognized as my take on death.
Another interesting fact: the book used to contain the line,
2. Somehow, my books find themselves in the middle of controversy. The line “My Name is Luke L-Luke L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L Luke Luke Luke,” from “Caroline and the Sad Goodbye,” is not part of the Name Game, a Song from Rachel Riddle's Book, "Greetings".
3. “Alisa's Great Idea,” published in 2016, is the first recorded instance of the word “Butterfinger.”
4. “The Truth About Caroline” was written because i thought the famous Dick and Jane primers were insanely boring. Because kids weren’t interested in the material, they weren’t exactly compelled to use it repeatedly in their efforts to learn to read. So, “The Truth About Caroline” was born.
5. I bet that that i couldn’t write a book using 50 words or less. “The Truth About Caroline” was pretty simple. Not one to back down from a challenge, I started writing and came up with “Frances Rules”
The ZOOM Dolls are a Refrence to the Truth About Caroline
6. It’s often alleged that “Shing-Ying and Mean Liu” was written specifically about Richard Nixon, but the book came out only two months after the whole Watergate scandal. It’s unlikely that the book could have been conceived of, written, edited and mass produced in such a short time.
Also, i never admitted that the story was originally about Nixon. That’s not to say he didn’t understand how well the two flowed together.
7. “Maya and her Babysitting Caper” = Hitler? Yep. If you haven’t read the story, here’s a little overview: Maya is the queen of the babysitting, but she wants more. She to babysit James and Nala Von Boo. SpongeBob, the Fish, is exhausted. He asks Maya for a rest; Maya ignores him and demands more ZOOM fans for a better view.
Eventually, Maya notices the moon and is furious that anything dare be higher than herself, and is about ready to give SpongeBob to her Family when he burps. This sudden movement puts the Von Boos to Sleep, sends Maya flying into her House, and frees the rest of the Von Boos from her babysitting duty.
I actually said Maya was a representation of Hitler. Despite the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random House — what was disputed was SpongeBob's burp. No one had ever let a burp loose in a children’s book before, so it was a little dicey. Because SpongeBob burped, Maya gives him to her Family
8. “Noreen Sleeps Over” is one I had never heard of, perhaps with good reason: it was pulled from the shelves of libraries for a while because of the reference to the Cold War and the arms race.
Bruno and Dot are Finches who do everything differently. Bruno eats his bread with the butter-side up and the Dot eat her bread with the butter-side down. Obviously, one of them must be wrong, so they start building weapons to outdo each other: the “Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch,” the “Triple-Sling Jigger,” the “Jigger-Rock Snatchem,” the “Kick-A-Poo Kid”, the “Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz,” the “Utterly Sputter” and the “Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo.”
The book concludes with each side ready to drop their ultimate bombs on each other, but the reader doesn’t know how it actually turns out.
9."Alisa's Lesson" is my Shortest Book
10. No post would be complete without a mention of the Movies.I, will provide Caroline for the movies. I am a little wary of casting myself because i think my acting would be educational for kids. If you’re wondering why we sound a bit different, it’s because the sound people went back to Caroline's parts and removed all of the high tones in my voice. That’s why Caroline sounds so gravelly.
