Spike – “Jasper”
Book Four, Story Five
Since Jasper in Story Five is a naughty cat, I did not want to make him one of my own barn cats. The illustrator of my books, Christina Wald, and I both love animals and we often share photos of our pets with each other (and I share photos of my farm and farm animals) when we are exchanging business emails. She sent me a photo of her cat, Spike, who always “helps her” when she is drawing illustrations…like my house cat, Suri, “helps me” when I am working on my laptop computer! Spike had the “purrrfecct look” for Jasper, so we used him as the “cat model” in Story Five!
What Our Readers Say…
Angie Forry, and daughter, Olivia, age 5
Lebanon, PA
Last evening I read the first story of your book, ‘Shiloh and the Barn Mouse’ to my daughter, Olivia. She loved the story so much that last night she went to sleep hugging the book. This morning when I left for work she was paging through it with her friend. She was so happy and excited! We will start reading the other stories this weekend. This is Olivia’s most favorite book EVER!
