Peggy Gifford_Moxy Maxwell 02 by Does Not Love Writing Thank-You Notes

Moxy wrote:
    Dear Mother,
    Thank you for loving me so much.
    Have a breath-taking New Year!
    Love,
    Moxy Anne Maxwell
    (Your daughter) P.S. In case you want to thank me for this thank you note, I’ll be around all week.
    And here is the picture Moxy made Mark take of it so she would have her own copy of what she called her “first literary masterpiece.”

About the Author
    Peggy Gifford is the author of
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love
Stuart Little, which reviewers have lauded as “irresistibly authentic,” “wildly original,” and “unforgettable.” She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has worked as an editor for the Feminist Press and as an acquisitions editor for SUNY Press. Peggy divides her time between New York City and South Carolina with her husband, Jack. You can visit Peggy and Moxy at www.peggygifford.com .

About the Illustrator
    Valorie Fisher is the author and illustrator of several books, including
When Ruby Tried to Grow Candy, How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, My Big Brother,
and
Ellsworth’s Extraordinary Electric Ears.
Her photographs for
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love
Stuart Little have been called “fresh,” “spot-on,” “funny,” and “snort-inducing.” Valorie’s photographs can be seen in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. She lives in Cornwall, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children.

FOOTNOTES
    1* Granny George’s legs are featured here wearing socks from the new Moxy Maxwell Socks and Scents collection.
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Published in the United States by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    Text copyright © 2008 by Peggy Gifford
Photographs copyright © 2008 by Valorie Fisher

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.
    Moxy Maxwell does not love writing thank-you notes / by Peggy Gifford; photographs by Valorie Fisher.
    p.                                    cm.
Summary: Ten-year-old Moxy Maxwell has promised to write twelve thank-you notes by the day after Christmas so that she and her twin brother Mark can go to Hollywood to visit their father, but all her brilliant ideas to help finish the task more efficiently end up creating chaos in the house.
    [1. Thank-you notes—Fiction. 2. Behavior—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Family life—Fiction. 6. Christmas—Fiction. 7. Humorous stories.] I. Fisher, Valorie, ill. II. Title.

    PZ7.G3635Mw 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2007015686

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    eISBN: 978-0-375-89230-1
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