Pop this into the old "Aw, Isn’t That Cute?" file.
Author/editor Jill Santopolo wrote the lovely little young reader title Alec Flint, Super Sleuth: The Nina, the Pinta and the Vanishing Treasure. And the advantage of being an author for kids is that often you get cool prizes in your cereal boxes, sent to you by clever librarians from Long Island:
You know what I love about this doll? The fact that someone took to time to sew tiny pockets onto the legs of his cargo pants. To say nothing of the sweatshirt detailing! Beautifully done.
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My favorite part is that his little hands fit in his little sweatshirt pocket.
The exact opposite happened to me–when I opened my copy of Alec Flint, a handful of Cap’n Crunch CEREAL fell out.
The new Alec Flint #2 cover looks great on your site, Jill, matches all the orange!
I’ve been waiting for this post about my beloved editor, Jill. She’d described the little creature, she’d described the box.
But yes, I (a slow blogger, I do confess) had to see the photographs.