FAQ Is there a mouse and cat hidden on every page of ALREADY ASLEEP? Almost every page. Sometimes in the smaller pictures there is more than one cat and mouse on a page. Have fun finding them!  Where does A. D. Tarbox get her ideas? A. D. Tarbox got the idea for ALREADY ASLEEP and the NATURE'S BOUNTY series from her experience growing up on a farm in Florida, and her parents' ranch in Texas, The Goose's Roost, where they have a lot of animals, such as birds, horses, donkeys, cows, and wild coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions. One of her favorite Mother Goose 4 verse rhymes, written hundreds of years ago called, Diddle Diddle Dumpling, was the inspiration for her first picture book. A. D. tried to imagine what would make the boy John, from the Mother Goose rhyme, so tired if he lived in the 21st century. Then it came to her: "A day of baseball, bugs, trucks, and trees." And from there her story grew to include characters like a daughter, dog, pig, pony, and a dad. |
FOR KIDS Print illustrator Julie Olson's outlines from ALREADY ASLEEP and color.    |
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