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Dear Mrs. Magootie
By (Author) Beth Howell
Illustrated by Robert Krueger
BookBaby
BookBaby
13th August 2019
United States
Children
Fiction
Hardback
80
Width 222mm, Height 285mm, Spine 12mm
485g
Written by a real school principal, and with illustrations that alternate between fantasy and reality, Dear Mrs. Magootie is truly an adult-friendly children's book. Grown-ups will enjoy the interactions between the characters, while kids will love the crazy situations and finding new things in the illustrations each time they look! Dear Mrs. Magootie is a must for educators AND parents who like to laugh with their child as they read their bedtime story.All educators have had experiences so unbelievable they should be put in a book. In Dear Mrs. Magootie, the written exchanges between a fictional principal and an eccentric parent take these to the extreme. Dear Mrs. Magootie is designed to be interactive, with spaces on each page that children can color to finish the scene and add their own drawings to the bookand isn't actually complete until a child adds his or her finishing touches to each page!
Robert Krueger was an electrician for his entire career. Moving around the country during those years, he lived everywhere from Arizona to Louisiana to New Jersey to Las Vegas. He is now retired and was talked into illustrating this book by his daughter, Beth Howell. He spent four years creating the wonderfully detailed pages of Dear Mrs. Magootie, adding in whimsy and fun at every point possible. He currently lives in Roanoke, Virginia and enjoys his time golfing as often as he can.