Picture books are such good fun and so is making them-- but who knew
there were so many things that could go wrong?
This is the story of a picture book doomed from the very start. Allan
has a good idea for a book about a crocodile, but every time he sits
down to write, he's interrupted. The manuscript gets soaked in coffee,
nibbled by snails, and when Bruce gets started on the pictures, he gets
overexcited and draws a hippo, not a crocodile, at which point the
publishers get overexcited too--they want a dinosaur and experiment with
all kinds of different fonts. Allan and Bruce finally think they've
straightened things out, when the book goes off to the printer and--you
guessed it--the trouble really starts.
My Worst Book Ever is a clever and amusing introduction to the process
of writing books for children, and they--along with their parents--will
be delighted to see how hilariously wrong Allan and Bruce's book turns
out.