Three boxes of Cheerios, a couple of clamdiggers, and me!

Toni Buzzeo and Terry Farish, my critique partners

My critique partner, Toni Buzzeo's wonderful picture book, No T-Rex in the Library, is available in boxes of Cheerios right now!

Toni brought her only author copy to our meeting Friday night. She told us she wanted to keep that box intact, so she was trying to find another one in her local supermarkets. This edition is also translated into Spanish, and she wants to use it in her presentations. I told her I'd look in my area, too.

So yesterday, I went cereal shopping!  Shaws in Bath totally let me down, but Hannaford in Topsham had one.



And Brunswick Hannaford had two!



I bought all three boxes!

  The only problem was that no one in my family likes plain Cheerios!

And I didn't think the local food pantry would want a box that had been opened. 



So I drove down to the bay near my house.



Just me and these two clamdiggers.

   I can only imagine what they thought of the crazy lady walking across the frozen seaweed with bags of Cheerios! 



The clamdiggers paid me no mind.  But someone else was interested.



Oh, yes. Very interested.



And then there were more.



And more.



And more.



Just like I knew there would be.

"Merry Christmas," I told them.