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bdiminishedminor7 ago

Mice like cheese. Squirrels like walnuts. They build underground storage rooms to collect the cheese and the nuts they find. Podesta's nickname is "Skippy", another famous squirrel.

Can't help but think of that creepy children's book, "The Secret Pizza Party", by Daniel Salmieri & Adam Rubin. They also wrote a series of stories called "Those Darn Squirrels", and a book called "Dragons Love Tacos". Their books are filled to the brim with mice, squirrels, masked rodents and, of course, pizza's, ice-cream, taco's etc. etc.

Daniel Salmieri also illustrated a book called "The Dullards", about boring parents who won't allow their kids to join ... the circus. Lots of circus imagery in this book, and, again, lots of furry animals. Also a swirly blue/pink ball.

And every book they write seems to be about boring parents, keeping their kids away from secret places of joy and fun. Every book seems to convey the message that it is OK to disobey your parents, visit the fun places anyway, and that it is OK to keep this happy secret to yourself.

Their latest book is called "Robo-Sauce". Here's a short synopsis:

Parents need to know that Robo-Sauce, by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri, the team behind Dragons Love Tacos, is the zany story of a boy who wants to be a robot, so he drinks a secret "robo-sauce" (the unseen narrator gives him the fictional secret formula for it), and all heck breaks loose. "Robo-Kid" activates a robo-rocket blast, a robo-laser blast, and a robo-tornado and rampages through town. All leads to robo-domination, and kids have to turn the book upside down to read the final pages of the "Robo-Book." It's crazy, silly fun. Parents may need to help younger kids fold the pages properly to create the Robo-Book (there are diagrams).

Godwillwin ago

Verrrry interesting! Good catch on the books using mice squirrels and circus