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Clyde

Hello everybody, 

We just heard from our illustrator. He’s almost done drawing the “Dog Book,” which will NOT be the title. 

 We think you are going to love it. We’ll post a sneak peek of a few pages very soon on Facebook. Did you know that Storybuilders Books can be personalized? That means if you order the Dog Book (once again, NOT the title!) we’ll put a photo of your dog on the back cover! How cool is that? You’ll have a book to remember your dog forever. 

NOW FOR A CONTEST UPDATE: 

First Place Winner of the title contest wins a free copy of the Dog Book with their dog’s photo on the back cover and their name inside each book as the author of the title. 

Second Place Winner – two of you will also get a free copy of the Dog Book, which you can also personalize with your dog’s photo on the back cover. 

Here’s the list of titles we’ve received so far: 

Furry Angels; Dog Wonders of Our Hearts; Livin’ a Dog’s Life; Puppy Pals and Doggy Tales; Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales; Dog Spirit; My Life As a Dog; Best Friends Forever; The Dog We Call Our Friend; Dog’s Life; A Day With The Dogs; All About Man’s Best Friend; Puppy Lovers; Every Dog Has a Gift; A Big Little Life; A Dog Like No Other; Live For Dogs, Laugh at How Cute They Are, Love Them Forever;  If You Only Knew; Dog Tales; Our Amazing Friends; Man’s Best Friend; Those Luvable Furballs; Our Cuddly Furries; Dog’s Mind in Action; Puppy Luv; It’s A Dog’s World; Everything and Anything You Could Know About Me; Puppy Life; A Girl’s Best Friend; Tiny But Mighty; Dog Days; The Dog Days of Life; Dogless in Seattle; Dog Tails; What Really Happens When You Are At Work; You Don’t Know Everything About Dogs; What People Don’t Know About Dogs; Do You Know How Much We Love You? What Our Bark Really Means: Feisty But Lovable; Why We Really Chase Mailmen; Dirty Dog Tricks: How I Hid Your Shoe and Other Stories of Bad Puppies Being Little Terriers of Terror; Dog or Best Friend? You Answer; Not That Different From Us; It’s a Dog’s Life; No Matter What I am Here For You; Got Dogs?; Have You Hugged Your Dog Today? Wanna Smile? Pet a Dog; Angels…or Devils…Among Us; Love Me, Love My Dog; 

Stay with us on Facebook. Why? Because our next book, the “Music Book” also needs a title! Hmmm….but what should be the prize, other than a free book? We’ll have to think hard on this! It was written by Glenn Gamboa, the pop music critic at Newsday in New York. He’s interviewed all your favorite pop music stars, including, drum roll please, The Jonas Brothers!!!! In this book, Glenn tells a story about what it’s like to go to a pop music concert, and what it’s like to interview famous musicians. 

Now, back to the dogs!

Strike that, reverse it. Thank you.

Here at the Storybuilders Factory, we’re eating chocolate and getting ready for Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago, June 12 and 13.

If you’ve never been to it, pack up the kids, shut off the screens, and you’ll discover that it’s much more than mulling about stacks of books. It’s a fantastically huge celebration with games, singing, music, freebies for kids in beautiful Chicago. Check out this link because they will be listing all the cool activities for kids very soon. http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/printers-row-lit-fest.html

Storybuilders will be there, too, with a Prize Wheel. You can win a Storybuilders book, coupon for $5 off a book, secret spy decoder ring, bookmarks, and lots more. Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of pure imagination.

Best of all, we’ll showcase our next book that stars your dog. Creating this book has taken a bit longer than expected because invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.

10. Mother’s Day is not a day. It covers the entire weekend from Thursday 6 p.m. through 9 a.m. Monday.

9. Instead of escorting spiders, ants, mosquitoes, earwigs, etc…out of our home, I will kill them on the spot. 

8. You are not allowed to cry over said insects bereaved family members or wonder aloud about how said insects’ parents feel.

7. Don’t correct my grammar. I worked at the Chicago freakin’ Tribune, for God’s sake.

6. Do not, under any circumstances, say, “Mom look!” unless you are skydiving or graduating from high school.

5. I do not know where anything of yours is located.

4. I will change the TV channel at the drop of a dime to “The Dog Whisperer” or HGTV.

3. The words “Harry” and “Potter” are banned.

2. Play with those &%$ Zhu Zhu pets that I went insane trying to find for Christmas.

And my Number One  rule on Mother’s Day……

1. Ask Daddy.

A shout out to MOMS — let’s make this list gigantic and laugh! Add some rules. Your day starts tonight.

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