Tabitha and Fritz Trade Places

Description

Pack your bags and join Tabitha and Fritz as they journey across the world to switch lives. Tabitha the cat is tired of her easy, coddled life. An adventure across the world might spice things up! Fritz the elephant dreams of celebrating his birthday with an exciting voyage to a faraway place. So after the two connect online via Lair-bnb, they p

Katie Frawley grew up on a diet of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Madeline. She went on to earn a bachelor's in English from the University of Florida and a master's in literature from Florida Atlantic University. These days, Katie lives in South Florida with her husband, four children, and a handsome mutt named Nantucket. When she's not reading or writing, Katie can be found building pillow forts, testing recipes with her teensy sous-chefs, or shooing iguanas from her garden. Learn more about the author at www.katiefrawley.wordpress.com. Laurie Stansfield grew up in Oxford, England, but packed her bags and moved west to study illustration at the University of the West of England. She now works as a freelance illustrator. She is the illustrator of Poems Out Loud!, published by Penguin UK, and has more books forthcoming. Her self-published work was highly commended by the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in the UK. Laurie lives with her husband in Bristol, United Kingdom. Learn more about the illustrator at www.lauriestansfield.co.uk.

"A satisfying spin on the trading-places trope." -Kirkus Reviews "Tabitha and Fritz are pretty much two of a kind, but debut author Frawley livens their epistolary exchanges with wordplay and knowing phrases...She gets a big assist from Stansfield (Poems Out Loud!), whose bright pastel settings, vivid expressions, and large cast of high-spirited supporting characters pull readers through the story." -Publishers Weekly "A laugh-out-loud story that spells out why the grass is not always greener, with subtle language lessons built in for emerging readers." -School Library Journal