We can admit that books often steal our hearts WAY before people do. Children’s Author Heidi Schulz | Photo: Stefani ChabotĬhild Aid: What book was your first love? We usually reserve that kind of talk for people, right? But we’re all friends here. Read our interview and learn about the one thing most likely to drive this writer utterly insane (hint: UPS uses loads of the stuff), and why Schulz wants every child to fall in love with a book. Now, she’s teamed up with Child Aid as a spokesperson, helping our organization raise awareness about the literacy needs of Guatemalan children in some of the poorest communities in the world. And don’t get her started on giraffes! This New York Times Bestselling author pens books for children and middle grade readers where she writes about rum-swigging pirates (though she’s never tasted the stuff, herself), and rain puddles with attitude.
The crocodile's clock is always ticking in Heidi Schulz's debut novel, a story told by an irascible narrator who is both dazzlingly witty and sharp as a sword.Heidi Schulz is a wannabe muggle. As if attempting to defeat the Neverland's most fearsome beast isn't enough to deal with, she's tasked with captaining a crew of woefully untrained pirates, outwitting cannibals wild for English cuisine, and rescuing her best friend from a certain pack of lost children, not to mention that pesky Peter Pan who keeps barging in uninvited. But Jocelyn finds that being a pirate is a bit more difficult than she'd bargained for. So when Jocelyn receives a letter from her father challenging her to avenge his untimely demise at the jaws of the Neverland crocodile, she doesn't hesitate-here at last is the adventure she has been waiting for. When she's sent to Miss Eliza Crumb-Biddlecomb's Finishing School for Young Ladies, Jocelyn's hopes of following in her father's fearsome footsteps are lost in a heap of dance lessons, white gloves, and way too much pink. Her grandfather, on the other hand, intends to see her starched and pressed into a fine society lady. Twelve-year-old Jocelyn dreams of becoming every bit as daring as her infamous father, Captain James Hook.
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