In general, our process involves a lot of trading back and forth. Our process is pretty much the same for all of them, except that for the picture book, Jenni wrote with a very specific page count in mind (since there are so few pages). How do the two of you collaborate? And is it different for something like Sunny than for Babymouse or Squish or the picture books? When Jenni was learning swing flag it was considered a training step to becoming a real twirler – which is way harder than it looks. (See attached glamorous pic!)įor those who don’t know, what exactly is a swing flag?Ī swing flag is basically a flag attached to a twirling baton. Well, the main autobiographical element in this Sunny book is Sunny learning how to use a swing flag. You wrote a little about how the first Sunny book had some autobiographical elements, has that continued in this book? Luckily, Sunny Side Up enjoyed a great reception from kids and grown-ups. We certainly hoped there would be more than one book.

Now was that originally going to be a stand alone book, or did you always have more in mind for Sunny? Now this new book, Swing It, Sunny, is a sequel to 2015’s Sunny Side Up. I reached out to the duo by e-mail and we spoke about the book’s autobiographical elements, how they work together and what the heck swing flag is. Sunny is back in a new book Swing It, Sunny, which picks up where the first book left off with Sunny facing middle school. In 2015, Scholastic’s Graphix imprint published Sunny Side Up, a stand-alone graphic novel about girl spending the summer with her grandfather in Florida. Matt co-wrote and drew the recent Marvin and the Moths and Jennifer is also a Newbury Honor winning author of prose novels like The Fourteenth Goldfish and Turtle in Paradise. The two have also made board books and a picture book together, and separately worked on other projects. Jennifer and Matthew Holm have been collaborating for years now on two series of graphic novels for kids, Babymouse and Squish.

Swing it sunny