Cath Carroll, the charming proprietor at Celebrate Picture Books, reminded me that today is National Pie Day.
In honor of this occasion, I give you a character from my new picture book, Everybody’s Favorite Book: Behold Everybody’s Favorite Villain, Corky!
Corky, in case you don’t know, is part robot, part dragon, and part pirate, making him a Robo-Dragon Pie.
Corky is holiday-adjacent.
Heck, Corky should be the holiday’s mascot.
So be sure to cut yourself an extra wide slice of the sweet stuff today. Let’s make Corky proud.
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Well, Corky is just adorable, Mike. Happy Pie Day!
And to you, too, my friend!
What a great character and illustration!
Isn’t Corky awesome? He was drawn by the marvelous Claire Almon.
He has a slice of pie for the end of his tail!!! Brilliant! D
The character design credit all goes to the book’s peerless illustrator, Claire Almon.
Bravo, Claire! 😀
Until Claire drew him, I had no idea what a Robo-Dragon Pie looked like.
Where is the pirate part? Or is it like pie-rate?
There ya go!
A-ha!
The illustrations along with the text are what make this a fun fun favorite book. And who doesn’t like PIE?
Who doesn’t like pie, Commies, that’s who.
My favorite is Coconut Cream… I will have a slice just for you!! 😉