Ragweed and Poppy | Behind the Book with Avi and Brian Floca

Newbery Medal-winning author Avi and Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca take us behind the scenes and into the making of RAGWEED AND POPPY, the first Poppy book in over a decade!
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How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who’s desperate to reunite with his mother. Though Ragweed doesn’t really want to help the raccoon, by doing so he winds up in Dimwood Forest.
Ragweed is now ready to strike off on his own, but it’s not long before he hears a cry for help. Following the sound of the voice, he finds a cage with a deer mouse trapped inside. When he asks the mouse’s name, she replies, “Poppy.”
The way Ragweed comes to Poppy's aid, and how Poppy comes to his, is how their rousing and fateful friendship begins. As for that annoying raccoon, he keeps getting in the way.
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[@Emma_Is_Bell]

I first read Ragweed over a decade ago when I was a child. It was one of my all-time favorites, riding alongside me to school every day. The illustrations inspired me to draw rodents, at which I'm PRETTY good after years of practice. Thank you so much for the wonderful series!

[@sieltan5618]

same here, but two decades ago!!! i looooved ragweed as a kid and it was the beginning of an obsession with rodents and small furry animals that has lasted my whole life! i was moving boxes today and decided to look up the book, am pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a new book featuring ragweed himself

[@thegodzillacollector6226]

@@sieltan5618 Yeah I can imagine you being pretty traumatized when you read the first chapter of Poppy

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Maybe you'll find Tina from my Rats of NIMH fanfiction then lol.

[@honeydew3320]

I'm a person who dislikes reading, but when I found this in a library i read it. Once I got home I bought the whole series so I could read it. I love this series and it really encourages me to read

[@BasementDweller_]

Groovy series.

[@bernice_anders]

I wish they made a movie on Poppy like they did with Coraline