FANS ASK: What inspired you to write about a rat in space?
Look on page 3 of Space Station Rat and you will read: "A space station was a serious place. It was a clean place. It was no place for Rat." Almost those exact words came into my head about nine years ago. They were the inspiration for RAT.

RAT Sighting in New Hampshire
Kids in Dover, NH are reading Space Station Rat. Rat is on the Dover Public Library's list for the Cochecho Award along with 22 other children's titles chosen from notable books published in the past three years. Learn more at

http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/Childrens'Room/childrenpages/Cochecho.htm

Are you in Dover? Have you read RAT? Let us know what you think!