tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67636079043572193802012-02-16T11:42:42.052-08:00Paul Schmidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700411260881516069noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763607904357219380.post-3610221289493920172011-04-25T20:39:00.000-07:002011-04-25T20:41:06.284-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s05GDnPKmqo/TbY-gW7f4GI/AAAAAAAABkw/_mYHWRWHz4A/s1600/pearl2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s05GDnPKmqo/TbY-gW7f4GI/AAAAAAAABkw/_mYHWRWHz4A/s320/pearl2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Pearl is my second book to be published as an author and illustrator, but the story of Pearl was born as I was waiting to hear from my publisher about another book I had written about a little boy porcupine who just loves balloons. That book, Percy's Big Idea, will be published in January of 2012.<br />I was picking up my daughter from school when I watched one of her classmates (named Pearl as a matter of fact,) giving all her friends goodbye hugs as they left the classroom, and I --since I very much had porcupines on my mind at the time-- heard the thought in my head: "That would be pretty sad for Pearl if she were a porcupine!"<br />Unable to let a situation of such pathos remain unresolved, I raced home and began to write Pearl's story.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6763607904357219380-361022128949392017?l=hugsfrompearl.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Paul Schmidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700411260881516069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763607904357219380.post-11897153888176057692010-01-19T19:21:00.000-08:002010-01-19T19:21:57.367-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cXjapWilRj4/S1Z2yL8zi3I/AAAAAAAABaU/MhxaR4KJQgw/s1600-h/pearl+swing+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cXjapWilRj4/S1Z2yL8zi3I/AAAAAAAABaU/MhxaR4KJQgw/s320/pearl+swing+blog.jpg" /></a><br /></div>Hugs From Pearl, by Paul Schmid. Available Fall of 2011, Harper Books.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6763607904357219380-1189715388817605769?l=hugsfrompearl.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Paul Schmidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700411260881516069noreply@blogger.com1