When these four authors gathered for a writing retreat at Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson's home, all four of the children's book manuscripts they worked on wound up having a butterfly in them somewhere, entirely coincidentally. All the MSs will be published this year.
Left to right: Kirby Larson (Audacity Jones to the Rescue, Scholastic); Winston the Wonder Dog; Susan Hill Long (The Magic Mirror, Knopf); Augusta Scattergood (Making Friends with Billy Wong, Scholastic) and Barbara O'Connor (Wish, FSG).