Hurray for Tara Lazar!  Tara's first book is out!  It's called The Monstore, and I bought it for my granddaughter Olivia.  My favorite monster is the one with the long neck.  I would name him Buck Nekkid, and I would hope that his lofty view would help me to find my glasses.

Tara's picture book writing challenge really got me going in November--she had us come up with a new pb idea each of the 30 days. PiBoIdMo is still benefitting me this year as I complete Julie Hedlund's 12x12 challenge, writing and submitting a picture book manuscript to an agent each month.