Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the ways rich people are bad pet owners so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Cookie Meets Peanut by

Bethany Frankel with art by Daniel Rood. Joining us to discuss this Real Housewives picture

book is Corey, librarian slash storytime underground joint chief slash responsible parent and pet owner.

Hi, Corey.

Hi.

Hi.

Thanks for joining us.

Oh, you are so welcome.

So we've chose, I mean, Bethany Frankel, of course, is a real housewife of New York

slash businesswoman slash best-selling author.

So she's written a lot of books to go in with her skinny girl empire,

like cocktail and recipe books,

and then also a relationship guide book,

and then also this picture book,

loosely based on her own life in which she had a, she still has a dog named Cookie,

and then had a daughter whose name is not peanut, but perhaps goes by that. But we also wanted

to talk more largely about the kind of trend of celebrity picture books

which I think kind of goes along with how a lot of people kind of think it must be very

easy to write a picture book because they're so short and who better to talk about that

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