New "Bink and Gollie" book to pub in June

Laurie Hertzel has been a journalist her whole life, working at the Duluth News-Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, and, for the past 15 years, the Star Tribune. She is the author of three books of nonfiction, including the recent memoir, “News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist,” winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award.

New "Bink and Gollie" book to pub in June

Posted by: Laurie Hertzel under Book news, Local authors Updated: January 19, 2012 - 5:12 PM

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Oh, boy, the short feisty mouthy Bink and her best friend, the tall serious and lofty-minded Gollie, are coming back to make us laugh again this summer.

"Bink and Gollie: Two For One," by Minneapolis writers Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee will be published by Candlewick Press in June. The illustrations will, once again, be by Tony Fucile.

The original "Bink and Gollie," published in 2010, won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. In their latest adventures, Bink and Gollie go to the State Fair and try to win the world's largest doughnut ("nature's most perfect food"); enter a talent contest, and have their fortunes told.

DiCamillo is the Newbery Award winning author of "Because of Winn-Dixie," "The Tale of Despereaux," and the Mercy Watson series. McGhee is a writing teacher and the author of many books for children and adults. And together--well, they're dynamite.

You can read a Strib interview with them here, where they talk about how they came to write the first book about the two friends.