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To Drool, it feels like her mom and dad have been gone an awfully long time. So long that she can hardly taste the fried ice cream Grandma made for dinner, or enjoy hide-and-seek with Kip, Grandma?s pet chicken. Not even playing dress up, having a whole snuggly hugging hour with Grandma, or getting to put the sprinkles on the triple-decker cupcakes can put a smile on Drool?s face. ?I?m an orphan,? she tells Kip. A child?s fi rst sleepover at Grandma?s is given a hilarious and tender treatment in this candy-colored book by talented newcomer Aileen Leijten.



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Aileen Leijten

Aileen Leijten holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, 1994. She worked as an Animator and Art Director on projects for Hanna Barbera, Sony Studio's, Digital Domain, Mattel Media, Walt Disney Imagineering, etc. Her art films, were nominated at a number of film festivals and she won a grant to work on a project for the Starbright Foundation, Steven Spielberg's non-profit Organization. After illustrating her first picture book in 2004, Leijten and her husband moved to NYC to make a career transition to writing and illustrating Children's Books. While there, Leijten wrote and Illustrated 2 more picture books, had a daughter, and started creating sculpted figurines based on her illustrations. They returned to Los Angeles 8 years later and continued their book work from there. Leijten just completed Lint Boy, a graphic novel for ages 9 to 12, and up.



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