Got back from a week in Tuscany. Absolutely beautiful! It is also the birthplace of Collodi, the author of Pinocchio. There were puppets everywhere!

Just send another manuscript to my editor at Henry Holt. Entitled THE WIDE AWAKE PRINCESS, it is the story of a fairy tale princess who refuses to sleep. The king and queen send for help, and it arrives in the form of all the king's horses and men, Little Bo Peep, and Little Jack Horner among others. In the end, a mysterious old woman arrives with a crafty solution...