I don’t even know how to DO the robot, but that just goes to show you how excited I was. I didn’t have the entire storyline figured out but this new direction seemed like it could work! I got so excited I started doing the robot. I turned the story inside-out and upside-down but nothing was working until one day while standing in the kitchen making lunch (no, not potatoes), the solution came to me: swap the snooty boutique owner for a menacing eggplant who gave Potato some trouble the day before and now––on the one and only day Potato Pants are available––poor, scared Potato is stuck outside the store when he spies that eggplant inside waiting for him. I jumped in with both feet and worked for months trying to build the story from the slapstick style (which I AM a big fan of) and gag-line ending it had to one with a bit more starch and substance. So fast forward six or so years after several failed attempts using substitute non-pickle characters, I decided a potato could take the pickle’s place with just as many opportunities for fun puns and wordplay while being much less offensive to editors. The next day I ran it by my editor who said, “ PICKLE PANTS?” I don’t think so!” It made me laugh so I dropped everything to start jotting down their dialogue. It all started when a conversation between a pickle wanting pants and a snooty boutique owner who was not being very helpful popped into my head. The writing process is always a “wild” ride for me from the time I begin a story to the time I finally finish and Potato Pants! was no different. In Potato’s words: “EEEEEE!” (translation: WOOHOO!). (Oct.Hello, everyone! What a spud-tastic honor it is to have the book trailer for my upcoming picture book, Potato Pants!, revealed here at the Nerdy Book Club! It was shown in July at Nerd Camp but this is the first time it will be shared online. Final pages pay tribute to designer Tubérto and his Potato Pants collection. The story by Keller ( We Are Growing!), buoyed by her kinetic mixed-media compositions (including potato stamps), blends humor and a theme of forgiveness. Just when all hope of scoring a pair of pants seems lost, Eggplant and Potato clear up their misunderstandings, and Potato becomes a dud-less spud no longer. Potato’s resulting anxiety over entering the store unfolds over spot illustrations that show emotive, newly trousered ’taters and Potato attempting to take his business elsewhere in comic talk bubbles containing amusing asides. (“I want a stripey pair just like the ones in the window, with stripey suspenders for added stripey-ness!”) But his enthusiasm quickly deflates when he sees Eggplant, who knocked him down the day before.
tuber? That’s how Potato sees things, barely containing his excitement, even doing the Robot (well, “PO-bot”) before rushing down to the one-day Potato Pants sale at Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store.
In this offbeat picture book, the clothes make the.
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