Last time on the Read-A-Loud Revival, I grew up reading the Penderwick novels and loved

Jeanie Bird's All's Work. And it was so fun to see an author that I had read and loved the work

of be a whole person in front of me and get to see all of who she was and all of that interested

her. And it was just really beautiful to get a taste of her tangible life outside of writing and

what fueled her and how she was inspired and what brought these characters and these stories to life.

So I just started a little bit at a time taking out the really bad things and then splitting things

from my own garden and putting them in there and then buying things. It was very gradual. And the

only person that really knew I was there and saw me was this wonderful custodian named Ron.

And I still take care of it. It feels like another way of the garden you paying forward

that it became a story for you. Something well-dupped in me. I desired to make this book.

This book that I loved and that Tommy loved. And so in keeping with my habit of waiting into

territory where I have no idea what I'm doing, we decided to create waxing books, a boutique

children's publishing imprint that makes the kind of books we know families want. And we're starting

with a little more beautiful the story of a garden.

I'm Sarah McKenzie and this is the Read-A-Loud Revival, the podcast that helps your kids fall more in

love with books and helps you fall more in love with homeschooling. In this episode I'll take you

on the rest of the adventure. The Kickstarter has officially launched and you can guarantee your

copy in the first print run of a little more beautiful the story of a garden by going to waxwing

books dot com. Do it by September 1st and you'll get some kickstarter exclusives including a

beautiful new book bag, Prince by the Illustrator and more.

Now last time I told you that the manuscript for this book had been passed around to various

big publishing houses and there just wasn't much interest. It wasn't the book they were looking for.

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