Wow.

I am so terribly excited to let you all know that my magic chickens book will be published by Knopf Children’s in Spring of 2015, and that I’m so honored and delighted to be working with editor Nancy Siscoe, whose work I’ve admired for years. Thank you so very much for finding the chickens their perfect home, Mandy!

As usual, Sophie says it best:

Querida Abuelita,

Remember all those letters I wrote you and Great-Uncle Jim, after you died and we moved to the farm, about everything that happened with my chickens? Someone wants to make a book out of them!

They say they’ll call it fiction, so no one comes looking for my chickens. They want to know if I have any pictures of them.

It’s a strange feeling, to think we’ll be in a book. And some of those things I wrote were private. I wasn’t too sure at first.

But what if some other kid gets chickens like mine? They’ll need all the help they can get. I go to the library every week, and there aren’t many books about chickens with superpowers.

I think I would like those kids to know my story.

Te extraño ,
Soficita

P.S. I’m going to draw them a picture. No one will believe it’s fiction if I send them a photo.

P.P.S. Those circles mean Henrietta is lifting that tomato with her mind. That’s how they do it in comics.

P.P.P.S. I know she should be tipping her head to stare at the tomato, but that’s really hard to draw.  I tried it, and it looked like her eyeball fell out because of all the circles.