The opening was kind of awful and I almost put it down before I was half-way through. So, Emmie learns a bit about people maybe not being quite as scary as she thought? And this is a book about pushing past some fears and connecting with other kids? Sometimes when you're so worried about how other people do or don't see you, you forget to really try to see them. before the troubling event, kids seem to Emmie like one-dimensional terrifying creatures who can be defined by just one word: popular, brainy, stinky (according to Emmie), nerdy, cute, etc. I suppose she learns that kids in middle school aren't always what they seem. And she's forced to go through a very rough day at school and face some of her fears. She has one close friend who goes to the same school, and when they're not together, she's pretty much drawing a lot and trying to blend in with the scenery.Īnd then something happens that brings her quite a bit of unwanted attention. She goes through her days at school doing her best to avoid attention. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade series, Emmie & Friends (Balzer + Bray).īorn and raised in Kingston, PA, Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, OH.Įmmie is a quiet kid.

Terri has three Pajama Diaries book collections: Deja To-Do, Having It All–And No Time To Do It, and Bat-Zilla. You can read the Pajama Diaries archives daily on. Pajama Diaries has been nominated four times for the Reuben Award for “Best Newspaper Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society and won in 2016. Her daily syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, launched with King Features in 2006 and ran in hundreds of newspapers internationally until its retirement in January, 2020. Louis with a BFA in illustration and a minor in art history.

Terri graduated from Washington University in St. She was also an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings. Terri Libenson (pronounced LEE-ben-son) is a New York Times bestselling children’s book author and award-winning cartoonist of the syndicated daily comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, which ran from 2006-2020.

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