Mo lives high on a shelf in an airport gift shop. All day he watches as families walk past. He can't help but feel lonely. Mo wants a family. He wants a home. Then one day Mo's wish for a family comes true as a special couple take him on a marvelous journey to meet his new best friend, Yuri. Mo has lots of questions once he gets to his destination. Where is he? What's a mishka? And most importantly, will the man and the woman who brought him and Yuri together come back? Will Mo ever have a family of his own?
Adrienne Ehlert Bashista is the co-editor of Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories, and is also the author of two picture books about Russian adoption: Mishka: An Adoption Tale, and When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption. She's had stories, essays, and articles published in a variety of journals, both print and on-line.
She currently writes for 3 blogs, 3 about parenting her 9-year-old son, who has a variety of neurological issues that make him 'easy to love but hard to raise,' and has a personal website as well: adriennebashista.net, which hopefully pulls it all together.
Her next title for kids, due out in August of 2012, is Haunted Kids of the Carolinas, a collection of spooky tales rooted in the historical, cultural, and freaky background of North and South Carolina. She wrote this book to be a tool for teacher and school librarians to bring fun and excitement into the curriculum, and she is excited to visit schools and libraries to make kids jump out of their seats!
Adrienne lives in central North Carolina with her husband, two sons, two dogs, 25 chickens, and too many honeybees to count.
