The Kids' Guide to Pranks, Tricks, and Practical Jokes

by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

Do you need a cool trick to impress your friends? Maybe your sister deserves payback for the practical joke she played on you last week. Whatever the reason, you've picked up the right book. From caramel onions to card tricks The Kids Guide to Pranks Tricks and Practical Jokes will provide hours of harmless mischief.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt, a military brat, graduated from the University of Texas (Hook 'em, Horns!!) and has the framed diploma to prove it, though she can't quite remember where she put it.

Ah, UT: Beautiful buildings, beautiful people, beautiful cars. But, with 50,000 students, it's an easy place in which to lose your soul. Sheri's fondest memories?

The stench of pigeon poop, (oh so pungent after an Austin rain), a firm bum courtesy of the long haul between classrooms, and the time she wore a "Jesus Saves" T-Shirt to class and droves of students parted before her like the Red Sea.

Sheri used to have a "real" job, but these days she's an award-winning magazine writer and editor. She also writes books for kids. Her latest, a picture book illustrated by the fabulous David Slonim, is about a very James Bondish Tooth Fairy. The publisher is Chronicle Books, her wonderful editor, Susan Pearson.

Sheri wrote the book after the Tooth Fairy made a late night appearance, during which she demanded that Sheri set the record straight. "I'm a technology chick," Sheri swears the Tooth Fairy declared. "The whole fairy dust thing is soooo old school."

Sheri's first middle-grade novel, about a kid who'd rather live anywhere but the junk lot he calls home, is currently with her agent. To read a bit of the novel, click here. If you're an editor, please, please, please talk to her agent.

To contact Sheri about personal visits, email her at Sheri@Bell-Rehwoldt.com

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