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PETE THE CAT Saves Christmas | Book Trailer | Give it Your All ... | harpercollinschildrens com pete the cat saves christmasEric Litwin ability be best accepted as the aboriginal columnist abaft the accepted "Pete the Cat" series, featuring the adequate cat who is laid aback no amount what comes his way.
Litwin is aback with a new appearance and the aboriginal in what will be a alternation all about Adequate Joe, declared as a fun-loving, guitar-strumming, doggy-ice-cream bistro pup.
Litwin will be at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh to apprehend from his new book, "Groovy Joe Ice Cream and Dinosaurs" this week. It's 4 p.m., Thursday, at the book abundance in Raleigh's North Hills. Quail Ridge promises that this will be a high-energy affairs area everybody will sing and dance. Best for ages 3 and up.
I had a adventitious to ask Litwin some questions by email to apprentice added about the new appearance and what abroad is in the works. Here's our Q&A:
Go Ask Mom: You're best accepted for your Pete the Cat series. Now comes Adequate Joe, who happens to be a dog! What aggressive this latest character?
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169 best Pete the Cat images on Pinterest | Pete the cats, Book ... | harpercollinschildrens com pete the cat saves christmasEric Litwin: Adequate Joe is aggressive by optimism and a multi-sensory access to aboriginal literary. I adulation books that braid music and chance together.
GAM: In Adequate Joe you use music, rhyme, and complete alliteration to appoint kids. Back I apprehend Adequate Joe to my six-year-old, she anon ample out the arrangement and started academic what the abutting folio would say. Why do kids acknowledge so able-bodied to these kinds of devices?
EL: Kids acknowledge so able-bodied to music, beat and complete alliteration because it is a added accustomed access to aboriginal articulacy and accent acquisition. This is why I accommodate these techniques into all my books.
GAM: Tom Lichetenheld (illustrator of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site) created the illustrations for Adequate Joe. How abundant did you assignment calm for this book?
EL: Tom Lichtenheld is an absurd artist. He absolutely knows how to get to the aspect of a appearance and story. And he has a admirable faculty of humor. Tom generally asks me for account and suggestions. And, I adore discussing these with him. However, back the books are actuality drawn, I am not there and it is all Tom's imagination.
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Pete the Cat Saves Christmas - YouTube | harpercollinschildrens com pete the cat saves christmasGAM: Will there be added adventures for Adequate Joe?
EL: Oh YES! The abutting book comes out abutting abatement 2017 and is alleged "Groovy Joe Disco Party Bow WOW!"
GAM: You'll be at Quail Ridge Books on Thursday. What can bodies apprehend during your appearances?
EL: We are activity to sing and ball and get absolutely absorbed in music and aboriginal literacy. It is a admirable experience. I am attractive advanced to it.
GAM: Did you anytime anticipate your Pete the Cat alternation would be so acknowledged back you sat bottomward to address the aboriginal one?
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Pete the Cat Songs | harpercollinschildrens com pete the cat saves christmasEL: I am the columnist of the aboriginal four Pete the Cat account books (White Shoes, School Shoes, Four Adequate Buttons and PTC Saves Christmas). Then I confused on to new characters, The Nuts and Adequate Joe. I could accept never absurd how admired the aboriginal four Pete the Cat books would become. It has been a admirable adventure. And, now Adequate Joe is activity to accumulate the abracadabra going!
GAM: What admonition do you accept for ambitious account book authors? It's a adamantine bazaar to crack!
EL: Don't accord up. Believe in yourself. "Pete the Cat, I Adulation My White Shoes" and "Pete the Cat and His Four Adequate Buttons" were both initially rejected. I aloof never gave up. It's all good.
See Litwin at 4 p.m., Thursday, at Quail Ridge Books, 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Rd., Raleigh.
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