Island time
It's a pre-launch party flurry over here. Stick-on-tattoos that I'm over the moon about! Custom fabric for prize bags! Now that Ben has decided to show up as a 'zombie baseball player' to the If I Were A Zombie Monster Mash Book Launch Party in Halifax at the Central Library (Saturday May 21st! 2-4 PM! Here's the event page on Facebook), we're visiting Frenchy's on the regular. We brought home a garbage bag full of clothes to rip and tear and slash, and realized that there's an art to monster-fying otherwise ordinary stuff. On the next sunny day: outdoors paint splattering, smushing, mud-making. By the time we're done, the tickle trunks we're bringing to the party are going to be overflowing. Take your pick!
In the meantime, we hit the idyllic Prince Edward Island for a book reading event put on by the excellent Bookmark in Charlottetown, and for two super-exciting CBC Radio interviews.
When you're nine and eleven years old, this is how you show 'We Are Grateful To Be Here And Will Be On Our Best Behaviour':
