The Gadgeteer likes Harold
The folks over at The Gadgeteer are thinking good thinks about Harold!
Happy Thanksgiving, from The Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer
Who’s Who and What’s What in “Harold and the Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer”
“Harold and the Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer” starts like this
Harold thought the Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer was an excellent piece of machinery.
He knew what it was the first time he saw it. He thought that was weird, that he knew it was a Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer, and plus, it’s a pretty weirdo name anyway.
“Hey,” Harold said, “that’s a Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer.”
“Is that a bug?” Harold’s mother asked, whirling around in alarm.
“What?” Harold asked.
“Is it a bug?” Harold’s mother repeated, crossing her arms and hunching up her shoulders the way you do when you think there might be a really big bug nearby.
“No, it’s a Wimple-Dimple…Dimmer…Wimmer,” Harold said, slowing down. Why did she think it was a bug? It was right there, right there, a Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer, plain as day. 
“Harold, please don’t go playing in that pile of junk. You’ll get hurt,” Harold’s mother told him.
“It’s not junk, it’s a W…I will not get hurt!”
“It is junk. Just like everything else in this garage. We’ll have to clean it out before we can put the car in here.”
Harold thought, I don’t see any junk, but didn’t say it out loud because he knew his mother saw only junk.
Just then Harold’s father came into the garage with a box.
“Oh,” he said.
“‘Oh,’ indeed,” Harold’s mother said. “We’ll have to clean everything out before we can put the car in here. Well, back to the moving truck,” she said with a sigh.
Harold’s father looked around. “Cool stuff,” was all he said.
Reading to a child: some tips
Since Harold is very much a read-to-me book, I thought I’d pass on a quick article from Scholastic Books on how to capture a child’s attention as you read to him/her.
The two takeaways are:
- Talk about what you’re reading and what might happen next
- Read the story again.
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Boxes o’ Books
I’m going to have to re-order Harold soon!
Thanks to everyone who ordered books last week; they’re being mailed today.
Buy Harold!
Hardcover and Paperback versions of Harold and the Wimple-Dimple Dimmer-Wimmer are now available for purchase!
And if you buy your book directly from Flummery and Trivet, you can get it autographed and/or inscribed to someone.
Buy Harold Here
Harold is also available in hard copy on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Flummery Central
Getting ready for the printers
All my i’s have been dotted and all my t’s have been crossed.
I have wiggled and jiggled the words to fit on the pages the way I think they should.
I have finagled and cajoled the images to sit pretty and centered.
And now I have the book cover done!
Everything gets sent to the printers today; hopefully I’ll have the proof copy back by next week.