About the Author-for Kids!
Questions from this month’s Official Baby Blanket Press Reporter: Nicolas. A

1. What is your favorite food?
That’s a tough one! Three way tie: birthday cake with ice cream, a great bowl of pasta, and oysters (the potato chips of the sea.)

2. What was your favorite book when you were little?
Oh—that’s another toughie! I had so many. My tops were Anne of Green Gables, James and the Giant Peach, and Where the Wild Things Are.

3. What is your favorite animal?
My favorite animals are elephants, because they feel deeply, help other animals in distress, and are highly intelligent creatures. There is a true story of an elephant that once helped a baby rhino stuck in deep mud despite the mother rhino charging it.

4. What was your favorite present when you were little?
My Nana gave me a sparkly wand that I loved! I would twirl and dance and wave it around non-stop.

5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
I would like to see the northern lights, stroll the streets of Paris, eat a bowl of pasta in Italy, or walk on a warm beach anywhere.

6. What is your favorite movie?
My favorite movie when I was young was Annie. I used to sing the theme song to my little brother all the time. He didn’t like that very much.

7. What do you think is different today about being a kid than when you were a kid?
We didn’t use computers or cell phones very often. I used to ride my bike to my friends’ houses to see if they wanted to play. There was no texting yet!

8. What’s you favorite candy?
Coconut jellybeans.

9. If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?
Omnilingualism. Om-ni-lin-gu-a-li-sm is the ability to speak, write, understand and communicate in any language! Luckily smiles are universal.

About the Illustrator-for Kids!
Questions from this month’s Official Baby Blanket Press Reporter: Nicolas. A

1. What is your favorite food?
I’d say a tie between roasted pork tenderloin sandwich and sushi.

2. What was your favorite book when you were little?
I think it was actually ‘The Hobbit’.  I believe my mom and I read it together when I was little.

3. What is your favorite animal?
My favorite animal is a ram because of the weird, beautiful horns.

4. What was your favorite present when you were little?
It was a big white jet-plane Transformer toy.

5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Egyptian Pyramids.

6. What is your favorite movie?
Return of the King.

7. What do you think is different today about being a kid than when you were a kid?
Technology is EVERYWHERE today and constantly changing and getting cheaper.  When I was little there was no internet, and our first computer was an Apple 2C, which was essentially an electrical typewriter with a screen and a tiny bit of memory.

8. What’s you favorite candy?
Very dark chocolate.

9. If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?
Telekinesis. Tel-e-ki-ne-sis is the ability to move objects at a distance by mental power or other non-physical ways!

About the Illustrator-for Kids!
Questions from this month’s Official Baby Blanket Press Reporter: Nicolas. A

1. What is your favorite food?
Curry, with lots of lemons and chilli.

2. What was your favorite book when you were little?
“The Call of the wild” by Jack London. Still one of my favourite books today!

3. What is your favorite animal?
Red squirrels, they’re so pretty and cheeky. I would love to be a squirrel for a few days, jump from branch to branch, eat nuts and sleep in a cosy nest.

4. What was your favorite present when you were little?
Probably an “Animals of Farthing Wood” VHS tape. I don’t know how many times I watched it, a lot!

5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
North of Sweden

6. What is your favorite movie?
When I was little I was obsessed with “The NeverEnding Story”.

7. What do you think is different today about being a kid than when you were 8. What’s your favorite candy?a kid?
A lot of things! We didn’t have technology and social media back then! I remember playing with a Minitel that was in my mum’s bedroom, probably the most modern item of the house

8. What’s your favorite candy
Dark Chocolate

9. If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?
Talk to animals