She has loved art and animals all her life and has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. Robin James is a gifted illustrator and a native of the Pacific Northwest. The winner of the Coors Lumen Award for family values and multiple Children’s Choice Awards, he lives in Austin, TX. Since then, he has written more than 300 books, some under his own name and others using pseudonyms, ranging from picture books to young adult thrillers. Cosgrove went on to create four titles that became the foundation of his best-selling Serendipity series, which has sold over 80 million copies worldwide. Consequently, he decided to write his own stories. His writing career began in 1973 when, while shopping at bookstores for his three-year-old daughter, he was frustrated by the lack of fun-to-read picture books that also convey positive values. I would highly suggest to find an original copy of this book if you are interested in it and do not purchase this 2013 reissue.Stephen Cosgrove is one of the best-selling children’s book authors of all time. I'm not sure this was the intent, but this is how it reads. In the 2013 reissue, it tells them to be something they are not, to try to fit in. In the original version, it encourages kids to be unique and individual. Perhaps the most disappointing thing of all was that the moral at the end of this particular book was changed. The images look like they were scanned with a cheap scanner, there are numerous typos and spelling errors (which unfortunately also plague the original versions) including the misspelling of "Flutterby" on the first page, and the choice of font and layout in the new versions make me think someone without any graphic design training designed the books. I was so completely disappointed in the quality of the reissue that I returned it. I was planning to buy a used copy for my best friend for her baby shower but then saw that they had reissued select titles so I opted for a new copy. When I saw they were reissuing them, I was beyond excited. I loved the Serendipity books as a kid and still have my old copies of them.
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