About this item
Daphne explores the ups and downs of false friendship in her latest fully illustrated diary of a fourth-grader.Daphne and Kaylee are fourth-graders and best friends, but Daphne also wants to become friends with Imogen, the cool girl in their class. The trouble is, to be friends with Imogen, she's going to have to get past Imogen's best friend, Darla. Which means becoming fake friends with Darla. But when it comes to Daphne, things never go according to plan. Can she survive the Fake Friend Disaster and make a real friend in the process? Daphne tells it like it is and expertly details the drama of being a kid in this fully illustrated journal from the creator of the bestselling Amelia series.
About the Author
I've been making children's books for a looooong time. I sent my first picture book to publishers when I was nine, but it wasn't very good and they didn't publish it. I didn't try again until I was a grown-up and then it took five years of sending out stories, getting them rejected, revising them and sending them back over and over until I got my first book. Now I've published more than forty books and each new one is still hard in its own way. Each one takes a lot of revising because I never get things right the first time. That used to frustrate me. Now I expect it. And I don't mind, because that gives me permission to make mistakes. It means I can take risks and try new things because I don't have to be perfect - I can always make changes.I had already published nearly a dozen books when I got the idea for Amelia's Notebook. I was buying school supplies for my son when I saw one of the black-and-white composition books. It reminded me of the notebook I had when I was a kid, so I bought it (for myself, not my son) and I wrote and drew what I remembered from when I was nine. Amelia's what came out. I didn't plan on the book becoming a series, but the first one sold so well and Amelia had so much to say, I kept on going.Now I'm playing with other notebook formats, like in the historical journals and Alien Eraser (where I get to play around with making comics, something I love) . My first chapter book, a long story with no pictures (well, a few) just came out. It's also my mystery, another challenge. And I'm playing with a graphic novel, something completely different. That's one of the things I love about writing and illustrating -- there are always new worlds to explore!
