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Synopsis:
Night Buddies and the Pineapple Cheesecake Scare is an after lights-out adventure story that will
delight young readers and middle graders who relish roller coaster fantasy and fun, filled
with unforgettable characters and an astonishing and inventive collection of magical
whatchamacallits.
Night Buddies is all about the
nighttime adventures of a young boy named John, who is not ready to go to sleep, and his
friend, a bright red crocodile named Crosley who turns up under John’s bed.</
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They sneak out of John’s house
using Crosley’s “I-ain’t-here-doodad” which makes them invisible to John’s parents.
They then embark on an adventure chasing down enemies and cleaning up one mess after
another as they solve the earthshaking mystery: who stole all the pineapple cheesecakes
from the only factory in the world that makes them!
The investigation starts out fine,
but things get a little crazy when Crosley, who is allergic to water, gets wet.
Hilarious things happen when Crosley’s allergy to water kicks in, and when they get to
the pineapple cheesecake factory and meet Big Foot Mae, the investigation gets more
complicated and zany than either of them bargained for.Night Buddies and the Pineapple
Cheesecake Scare is the first title in the Night Buddies series, a 7-times award-winning
chapter book series for kids. The second book, Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-
Out Flying Machine was published in February 2013 and the third book, Night Buddies
Go Sky High is due out in March 2015. The Night Buddies series is available in both
print and ebook format.
About the Author:
Sands Hetherington credits
his son John for being his principal motivator. Sands raised his son as a single parent
from the time John was six. He read to him every night during those formative years.
He and young John developed the Crosley crocodile character in the series during
months of bedtime story give-and-take. Sands majored in history at the University of North Carolina (Chapel
Hill) and has an M.F.A.
in creative writing and an M.A. in English from UNC-Greensboro. He lives in </
span>Greensboro.Check out his Website, Twitter and Publisher pages for more!
About the Illustrator:
Jessica Love grew up in </
span>California, with two artist parents. She studied
printmaking and drawing at UC Santa Cruz, then went on to study acting at The Juilliard
School in NYC. Her favorite way to work is collaborative, which is why illustration is
such a treat.
Some of her inspirations are
Maurice Sendak, Edmund Dulac, Lisbeth Zwerger and of course, the incomparable
Hilary Knight. Jessica currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, toggling back and forth
between her work as an actor and her work as an artist.
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