ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A HEARTFELT THANK you to Eileen Schnabel who is the world’s best critique partner, even under pressure (with or without a squash). Thank you to Deborah Halverson for your excellent and thoughtful editing! You really helped me take the story up a notch.
Thank you to Susan Gilbert-Collins for your friendship and support—I can’t wait to see you again. Thank you to the NRW Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) group and to SCBWI Germany/Austria, especially our industrious Regional Advisor, Katja Rammer. I miss you all. I’m looking forward to seeing you all again as soon as 2020 allows. Special thanks to the amazing author/illustrator/linguist Olga Reiff for the invitation to the Walfer Bicherdeeg in Luxembourg! A hat tip to Marcy Pusey, my fellow adven
