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Billan the Bard

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Billan doesn’t know what to do—he’s a bard, but somehow, he’s lost his ability to rhyme! He cannot recite and serenade without that most important skill! Billan must set out and find a solution to his problem, but who will be able to help?

Billan the bard has a very peculiar and quite distressing problem: he cannot rhyme. As talented as he is at playing a number of instruments, and at singing lovely tunes, the skill that ties all these other talents together is the ability to rhyme. Without it, his ballads and poems make no sense! Billan sets out for help, finding a wizard who realizes that Billan is under a curse! With the wizard’s powerful magic, see if you can help Billan be able to rhyme again, so that he can be the bard he was meant to be!

Billan doesn’t know what to do—he’s a bard, but somehow, he’s lost his ability to rhyme! He cannot recite and serenade without that most important skill! Billan must set out and find a solution to his problem, but who will be able to help?

Billan the bard has a very peculiar and quite distressing problem: he cannot rhyme. As talented as he is at playing a number of instruments, and at singing lovely tunes, the skill that ties all these other talents together is the ability to rhyme. Without it, his ballads and poems make no sense! Billan sets out for help, finding a wizard who realizes that Billan is under a curse! With the wizard’s powerful magic, see if you can help Billan be able to rhyme again, so that he can be the bard he was meant to be!

SPECS

  • Imprint: Brown Books Kids

  • BISAC: Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories

  • Format: Hardcover

  • Page Count: 32

  • Publication Date: September 7, 2021

  • ISBN-13: 9781612545318

  • Dimensions: 8" x 10"

  • US List Price: $16.99

  • Carton QTY: 30

AUTHOR BIO

Mark Huffman doesn't like slant rhymes or rhymes with made-up words or rhymes that don't really rhyme at all, so this poem drives him crazy. He's written books called The Toot Fairy and Cheesemaker Durdsden, which both rhyme properly. He lives with his family in Texas.

ILLUSTRATOR BIO

Dawn Davidson is a freelance artist in Winter Garden, Florida. A lover of great children's literature, she is inspired by the classical illustrators of the past, and strives to achieve a sense of timelessness by mimicking traditional media in her digital work. Combining classical drawing skill, vibrant color use, and a sense of playful whimsy to create memorable characters and humorous compositions, she enjoys nothing more than to bring a story to life through beautiful, engaging art. She loves family, travel, celtic mythology, period and fantasy costuming, and dreaming of retiring to a mountain cottage in a state that has seasons.

PRAISE

"A fun introduction for children to the art of rhyming-and a powerful lesson on how to make words work for you as a writer."-Michael Sampson, New York Times Best-selling Author of Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3

"Fantastic! Hysterical! I wish I'd written it myself!"-Chris Harris, New York Times Best-selling Author of I'm Just No Good at Rhyming and Other Nonsense

"What a funny and clever book! It's definitely worth a good . . . peek?!"-Jon Burgerman, Author and Illustrator of Rhyme Crime