Dear Peter Rabbit (Stories to Go! (Prebound)) - Hardcover

Lit­tle could I have imag­ined that a play­ful act to keep me awake one evening while dri­ving home would result in the cre­ation of a whole new world, the world of "Hid­den For­est". Of course, it took the genius of Leslie Tryon to make it true. I'm fre­quently asked how I came up with the idea for Peter Rab­bit. It hap­pened with­out plan­ning. Dri­ving home, afraid to fall sleep while dri­ving after a long day of classes, I would dic­tate into my tape recorder, notes to myself and to my stu­dents. Once, just for fun I started talk­ing with the voices of pigs and wolves. Many months later, when I acci­den­tally dis­cov­ered the record­ing, I real­ized there was a book to be written.

I will always be thank­ful to Jonathan Lohn­man for begin­ning the col­lab­o­ra­tion with Leslie Tryon. Dear Peter Rab­bit has been fol­lowed by Yours Truly, Goldilocks, in Span­ish Aten­ta­mente, Ric­i­tos de Oro; With Love, Lit­tle Red Hen, and Extra! Extra! Fairy-tale News from Hid­den For­est, in Span­ish ¡Extra! ¡Extra! Noti­cias del Bosque Escon­dido.

What a mar­velous adven­ture it has been to cre­ate this Hid­den For­est world! And what a wel­comed sur­prise that this book has been pub­lished in Korea, trans­lated to the Korean language.

Alma Flor Ada, an authority on multicultural and bilingual education, is the recipient of the 2012 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, and in 2014 she was honored by the Mexican government with the prestigious OHTLI Award. She is the author of numerous award-winning books for young readers, including Dancing Home with Gabriel Zubizarreta, My Name Is María Isabel, Under the Royal Palms (Pura Belpré Medal), Where the Flame Trees Bloom, and The Gold Coin (Christopher Award Medal). She lives in California, and you can visit her at AlmaFlorAda.com.

Leslie Tryon is the author of the Albert books and several others for young readers. She is also the illustrator of Alma Flor Ada's Dear Peter Rabbit and With Love, Little Red Hen. She lives in Carmel Valley, California.