He said that every time he walked home he’d pass them on the sidewalks, and that it was really creepy at night, because he’d see these glowing eyes. That was in 2009 – for some reason, that year, there were a lot of raccoons. I was living in Brooklyn, and my brother, who also lives in New York City, was telling me about all these raccoons in Central Park. I think the book started with Central Park. Where did the sneaky raccoon in The Troublemaker come from? Castillo spoke to PW by phone from her home in Baltimore about drawing techniques, the potential stress of author appearances, and rogue raccoons. The culprit? A woodland creature with an advanced case of kleptomania. In The Troublemaker, a boy borrows his younger sister’s cherished bunny for a game of pirates, then gets a taste of her distress when his own stuffed animal disappears. The Troublemaker is due from Clarion in June, and Nana in the City, also from Clarion, comes out in September. In between illustrating books for others, she’s found time to write several of her own. Lauren Castillo has been working steadily on picture book projects since graduating from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 2005.
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