Claire Chambers is a crazy-pants artist who spends most of her time indoors, usually near Portland, Oregon. However, this book she made entirely in Tucson, Arizona, because she simply cannot stay still. (See above re: crazy.) She runs the Chickenpants Studio (chickenpants.com), where she makes things like coloring books, chicken be-panted dolls, paintings and giant messes. This is her third book, and first work of fiction. (Unless you count all that Star Wars fan fiction she wrote as a teenager. You really shouldn't.

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