Michael J. Daley

"Daley's easy-reading text about good friends learning to cooperate is served up just right with Yezerski's illustrations in pen, ink and watercolor." --- Kirkus

"A good choice for librarians looking to expand their upper range of their beginning-reader collections." ---SLJ

cover illustration by Thomas F. Yezerski copyright 2012

MICHAEL'S FIRST EARLY READER CHAPTER BOOK!

Pinch is hungry. But he is too lazy to make his own soup.

Dash is a great cook. But he never puts enough pepper or hot sauce in his soup.

Can two friends make the perfect pot of soup? Or will a spat about spices spoil their lunch?

Meet Pinch & Dash, two good friends who do things differently---but always stick together in the end.

Available in hardcover & paperback
Charlesbridge
ISBN 978-1-58089-346-6

Stay on the look-out for more adventures next year when PINCH AND DASH star in THE TERRIBLE COUCH!

And please don't miss my wife, Jessie Haas' new early reader: Bramble and Maggie. The cover and link is just to your left.

"Daley's effective use of repeated words and phrases, simple vocabulary, and grouping of events into four short chapters makes this very accessible to novices, while the gentle situational humor will also help facilitate reader's digestion of this easy reader." --- The Bulletin

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2008 Golden Duck Award for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction---Eleanor Cameron Middle Grade Novel
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A NEW RAT AND JEFF ADVENTURE!SFRevu says, "RAT TRAP is fast paced adventure set in a unique environment."

A LOOK INSIDE RAT TRAP

JUST NAMED A BEST BOOK FOR THE TEEN AGE 2008 BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ORIGINS OF SHANGHAIED---

One of the things that fascinates me as a writer is how the tiniest chance tidbit of something unexpected can bring an entire world to life in my imagination. This is how SHANGHAIED TO THE MOON came into existence.

There was an NPR report on the discovery of the final camp of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole. Many feet of ice now covered it and a fierce debate was raging: was it ethical to dig down and uncover this place or should the dead be left in peace? Which was the more fitting monument?

For me, this led to the question: What will happen to the site of the first landing on the Moon when we go back there? Val and Stewart and their perilous adventure sprang almost whole from that question.