Kidlit Love: Conversations with Picture Book and Middle Grade Authors
Oct 20, 2026 · 18 min · 8 segments
Happy Thursday! I’m back in your Inbox with our second KidLit Love conversation this week. Join me as I chat with Christy Mandin about the two newest books in her gorgeous MILLIE FLEUR picture book…
Stephanie AffinitoHostAnd so she has, at the start of the book, you see she has checked out all the books at the library on everything she needs to know on how to have the best day ever.
She stays up late and she wakes up the next morning with a bad case of the Morgan muffles and a humbug in her hair.
and so the morgan muffles that's a german word for people who are bad at mornings which is me and um and the day just she she is determined to have the best day ever and the day just spirals out of control one thing after another piles up until she's literally wearing it all on her back the morgan muffles are She's got this baked beast, an oozing ick.
And the best day ever... at Disney world often turns into the worst day ever for many members of the family.
You spent money, you've traveled and, and then you stand in line and you see all these kids crying and parents just stressed out.
And it, but at the end of the day, I think you could probably ask a lot of people and they would say, well, Looking back on it, they still had a great time,
so that was kind of sort of the vibe was like the pressure that you put on yourself and on others to just kind of.
I don't know, even like a field trip at school, you know, but you forget your lunch.
And so she has, at the start of the book, you see she has checked out all the books at the library on everything she needs to know on how to have the best day ever.
She stays up late and she wakes up the next morning with a bad case of the Morgan muffles and a humbug in her hair.
and so the morgan muffles that's a german word for people who are bad at mornings which is me and um and the day just she she is determined to have the best day ever and the day just spirals out of control one thing after another piles up until she's literally wearing it all on her back the morgan muffles are She's got this baked beast, an oozing ick.
And the best day ever... at Disney world often turns into the worst day ever for many members of the family.
You spent money, you've traveled and, and then you stand in line and you see all these kids crying and parents just stressed out.
And it, but at the end of the day, I think you could probably ask a lot of people and they would say, well, Looking back on it, they still had a great time,
so that was kind of sort of the vibe was like the pressure that you put on yourself and on others to just kind of.
I don't know, even like a field trip at school, you know, but you forget your lunch.
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