Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!

Twilight Art and Book Publishers

2012

Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!

ZAM ZOODLE OOP BOOP SOUP!

A Twilight Art and Book Publishers Book

PUBLISHING HISTORYTwilight Art and Book Publishers

First Printing Kindle e-Book Edition Published 2011Second Printing Trade Paperback Edition Published 2012

Published byTwilight Art and Book Publishers

Addison, IL 60101

All Rights ReservedCopyright © 2011 by Jay J. KaylinWritten and Illustrated by J.Kaylin

Cover Illustration, Design, and Book Design by J.Kaylin

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lishers, Addison, IL. 60101, e-mail: twsales@jkaylin.com, phone: (630) 780-2454.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9799558-8-4

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Printed in The United States of AmericaTwilight Art and Book Publishers

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This book is dedicated to Good Orderly Direction and to my Mother and Father.

And is —

foreveryone.

“For every evil under the sun there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, seek till you find it; if there be none, never mind it.”

-The Real Mother Goose

“Hey, diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.”

-The Real Mother Goose

Table of ContentsPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv-xviAcknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii-xviiiIntroduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix

SECTION IFood Fight! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-23Gore Demore’s Deplorable Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25Mix It Up and Blend It Well! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-27Ten Foot Jelly Bean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29Grundy Bolishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31

SECTION IIPeople Say It Can’t Be Done! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33The Way Things Are. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35I’m a Success! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36A Runner and A Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37The Pictures of You I have in My Head . . . . . . . . . . . 38-39Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40-41

SECTION IIIThe Ants Go Marching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-43Hickory Snickery Snock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45The Weeps! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Johnny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47A Boy and His Goat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48-49Tickle Me! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

SECTION IVDoug Dug the Rug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51The Boy from Vandam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Tina Tubble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53The Boy from Med . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-55A Boy Named Bernard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Lucky Pete Pluck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Reckless Larry! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Electric Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

SECTION VLittle Wally Wittle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60-61Foolish Sarah Jean! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62-63King Linky Doo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64-65Sylvia Jean Stout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66-67Petty Pox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-69Kathy Loofy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Trumuchewlush Licorice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71The Swilly Swarps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-73

SECTION VIThe Feeble Fobble Mottle Knot! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Oh to Moe the Toad on My Toe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75A Dream! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76-77Willy Wuzzard and the Buzzard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78-79Dew Dunner Diddit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80-81Albert Von Lookie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Sink or Swim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83The Oogly Mooglies Are Coming! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84-85Hey, Griddle, Griddle! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Closing Epigraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxxviiiAbout the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxxix-xcA Note from the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xciAdditional Books by J.Kaylin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xciiPublisher, Author, and Book Information . . . . . . . . . . . . xciii

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“Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” wasn’t the first title I chose for this book. At first, I chose the title “Hey, Griddle, Griddle!”, but it seemed to fail to strike any interest in it as a children’s book. Some thought it might even be a cook-book. When I changed the title to “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”, and then said it rapidly out loud to my Mother, she laughed and said, “When will you ever learn to speak English?”.

As a born United States citizen, I am certainly no stranger to speaking American Eng-lish, and I am certainly no stranger to reading or writing it, for that matter. I grew up learn-ing to read and write with those somewhat unimaginative Dick and Jane books. However, I also had the opportunity to grow up reading The Real Mother Goose and then later Dr. Seuss. I don’t know how many times I read over and over again that last surprise ending page in Dr. Seuss’s ABCs which had an illustration of this weird colossal creature saying, “BIG Z little z, What begins with Z? I do. I’m a Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz as you can plainly see.” And in a way, “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” is a tribute to that strange creature in my literary childhood, the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz.

As a child, I constantly mixed different things together, or I would pull many things apart, and afterwards, I would try to mix and match their individual parts and put them back together again in such a way as to create one or even several whole new things. To-day, I do this with words within the English language. I find it more fun than anything else I ever tried to mix together, pull apart, or rearrange and put back together.

“Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” didn’t write itself, rearrange itself, or put itself togeth-er either. I have spent some long wearisome and monotonous hours writing, re-writing, reading, re-reading, redoing, rearranging, editing, preening, and marketing this book. In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “A Psalm of Life” he wrote, “Art is long, and Time is Fleeting . . . .”, I mention this because there were some days I felt as if I would never finish this book while my heart felt time slipping away from me. Many of these days, I wanted to quit altogether having this sometimes tedious and daunting job of writing. But then, my book sales would increase, or I would get a kind review about one of my books, or someone would give me a genuine smile or a heartfelt laugh at something I had said or at something I had written; I would then consequently remember why I chose to become a children’s writer.

What helps to keep me going as a writer are some of the notable successes I have had with my books. In the mail last week, I received my first fan letter, and a particular phone call I will always remember didn’t have to do with this book, but it had to do with my first book “A Yellow Jellow, What . . . ?”. A book which, at the time, I printed myself and sold it on consignment from the trunk of my car to independent bookstores in my area, back in 1994. Then within a month of it being on sale for the first time, I received a phone call from a Mother who wanted to tell me about the positive impact my book was having on her child. She said that out of all the books she had ever bought for her son, my book was

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the first book which her son always insisted on reading by himself, rather than having someone else read it to him all the time.

By the same token, there has been some rough going. In contrast, I recently received an unfavorable review about my first book’s second edition “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say?” published this time in 2010. This unfavorable review stated, among other things, that I was a terrible imitation of Shel Silverstein and that my writing was clumsy and awkward, even to his child. Even though I take every review very seriously, I need not take every favorable or not-so-favorable review too personally or too much to heart; for I know as an author, I will not be read or liked by everyone. I certainly do not like every author I read, and sometimes my taste in authors will drastically change.

At present, I read Shakespeare. And except for those early Dick and Jane books from my early childhood, I still read Dr. Seuss and The Real Mother Goose. Additionally, I en-joy reading Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash, among many other authors which I admire. I suspect I have learned much from these authors by allow-ing them to lead me by their examples of excellence. I was taught in some of my begin-ning writing courses in college that it is best sometimes for a writer, especially those who are just beginning their writing careers, to try to emulate the master craftsmen of writing until one’s own voice and writing style becomes more naturally evident and begins to develop its own formative and unyielding tap root. In time, their new voice and style will even start to rival itself.

All in all, it seems like almost a lifetime since I learned to read and write from Dick and Jane, and had seen Spot run all the time. Yet it seems like just yesterday that I learned my ABCs and my rhymes from The Real Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss. And if I were now to consider only one notable asset to my becoming a better writer, it would be I believe that I have tried my best to study and to emulate in my writing those writers whom I ad-mire the most. It is at this point where I now look back on “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” after having completed it for the time being, and I wish I would have included more enter-taining poetry that might also help to build a child’s confidence and self-worth. Addition-ally, I would have liked “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” to be more literature worthy and to be more precise and formal in meter, structure, and rhyme schemes, as well as being more creative in grammar and punctuation. In any event, these are some of the continuing goals, which still remain for me to achieve as I write my next book.

So whatever tickles your ribs and turns your pages, fires up your kindling or nooks your book, slays your Jabberwocky, sings your song of sixpence, zizzer-zazzers your zuzz, un-noodles your knots, or just zam zibbs your zots, I hope you and your child will enjoy — “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”.

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AcknowledgementsI would like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to the associations,

publishers, and persons who have made the completion and sale of this work possible. In alphabetical order, grateful acknowledgements are made to the following:

For their editing: KimLee Marie Briskey, Laura Cotton “Woman of Words” found on Elance.com, Grammarly.com, and my Mother Marion Kalinowski-Sadler, and Madam “X” who named me, “The King of Semi-Colons”.

For their ideas and insights: Once again, to KimLee Marie Briskey and to Madam “X”.For their kindness and support: KimLee Marie Briskey and Rob Brunke, Gasper Cal-

cara, Jim Hugunin, and my other cave dwelling neighbors who have provided the quiet shelter conditions under which this work could take place, Gasper Calcara who has pa-tiently put up with my eccentricities for over 20 years, Sharyn Connell, Greg Esposito, my Mother and her husband Ed, Joe Reiter, My Suburban Life, GateHouse News Services and journalist Allison Horne for the newspaper article written on my behalf and published both online and off.

For their technical support, sales, and production: Amazon.com, CreateSpace, and Kindle Direct Publishing, Gasper Calcara for giving me the consistent and flexible em-ployment which substantially helped with some of the monetary needs required for the completion of this work, and once more to My Suburban Life, GateHouse News Services and journalist Allison Horne for the newspaper article written on my behalf.

Lastly, I am deeply grateful to a select group of people for sharing with me much of their valued time and slender resources without asking me for anything in return, and without whose selfless help and support many things in my life might not have been even possible — let alone this work.

Most thanks should go, however, to my Mother for her never-ending support and con-fidence in my books, and most of all for her strength and courage and never once losing faith in me.

I would now like to extend these acknowledgements to include some of my resource materials which forged and mapped the way for me to create and compile this work with a sense of quality, understanding, resourcefulness, imagination, and literary discipline. In alphabetical order, they are as follows: A College Grammar of English by Sidney Green Baum which is a textbook I still find invaluable from Dan Kies’ “Modern English Gram-mar” class at the College of DuPage, Elements of Style - Fourth Edition by Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, Grammarly.com, On Writing Well - An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfic-tion by William Zinnser, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary by Clement Wood - Revised by Ronald Bogus, Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary - A Fifth Edition Merriam-Webster 1945, A Children’s Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy, Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear, The Real Mother Goose published by Checkered Board Press 1944, Dr. Seuss’s ABCs and The Cat in The Hat by Dr. Seuss, Something Big Has

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Been Here by Jack Prelutsky, Uncle Shelby’s ABZs and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Voice of the Poet: American Wits - Unabridged Audio Book by Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, and Phyllis McGinley.

I feel very much indebted to all the above individuals, associations, and resource ma-terials, and to several colleagues whose names I can not continue listing and who have assisted me in one way or another, especially in challenging me with alternative views. I assume, alone, full responsibility for all the remaining shortcomings.

The author and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to repro-duce copyright materials:“Triple Threat” by Allison Horne, Addison Press, November 18, 2011, Volume 18, Section: News, Page 61.“Addison’s J.Kaylin Hopes to Expand Inde-pendent Publishing Business” by Allison Horne. GateHouse News Service, Posted Nov. 24, 2011@01:50 P.M. Accessed April 14th, 2012. http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/otg/archive/x1379037393/Addisons-J-Kaylin-hopes-to-expand-independent-publishing-busi-ness. Record Number: a84173f3b28368dbe5245835fb9bc026

We would also like to take this opportunity to offer our apologies to any copy-right holders whose rights we have unwittingly infringed. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the pub-lishers will be pleased to make the necessary agreement at the first opportunity.

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Introduction“I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.” An-

thony Burgess, New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1987. Within the pages of this book, there is indeed a little sense in non-sense as there is also

a little non-sense in sense. In “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”, you and your child will find some strange creatures, word plays, limericks and puns, a few made-up words, a tongue twister, a parody or two, some encouraging self-awareness and self-discernments, and sev-eral things hopefully of some literary and linguistic value. Mostly, I tried to write a book that will bring a little laughter and some common insights into the heart of you and your child.

I wrote “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” for children ages 3 through 8. I believe this is an age when children are most impressionable and are still immensely intrigued with reading. Furthermore, I hope this book will appeal equally to those of all ages as did my previous book.

Equally important, I have tried to improve “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” as compared to my previous book “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say? (Second Edition)”. You are likely to see these relative and over all improvements in “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup’s!” illustrations, its cover, its length, and in its chapter or section layout. However, I believe you will see most of the improvement in the illustrations I created for “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”. They are perhaps far more distinctive and far more developed than the il-lustrations I created for “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say? (Second Edition)”. I also tried to break up “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” into more relevant and related chapters or sections.

To conclude, I trust you and your child will find, at the very least, some fun in reading “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”. At the very most, I hope you and your child will find within these pages some humor in truth and some truth wrapped in humor.

I will leave both of you now to decide whether you will want to find out more by reading what is contained in these following pages of “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!”, and I will end this introduction with this quote by Max Beerbohm, “Humor must have its background in seriousness. Without this contrast there comes none of that incongruity which is the mainspring of laughter.”, (d.1956), “A. Conspectus of G.S.B.”

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Food Fight!The egg planted flowersAround the cottage cheese,As the black eyed peasAnd the eyes of the potatoes watched.Then the lettuce was ready To turn a new leafWhen the ginger snapped,And the chocolate dipped,And the potato chipped,And as the pancake flippedOver the ears of cornThat were listening to a toast,Which the toast was making,To them all.Then the lemon droppedRight off its chair!As a banana peeled away.Then the ice screamed,As it watched the potatoesGet whipped in a mashBy those awful,Little deviled eggs.

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Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!Zam Zoodle Oop Boop soupIs a soup that is very rare.Most people don’t careFor Zam Zoodle Oop Boop soup.Yet, it is a soup with whichNo one can compareTo any other good Oop Boop soupThat is so rare.

It is a very easy recipe,And as I tell you, you will seeHow simple it all will be.To make Zam Zoodle Oop Boop soup:Add some Zoodles and some Zams,And if you don’t add a horse,You’ll be on the right course!Then add a lot of BoopBut be very careful not to addToo much Oop,For if you add too much OopTo your Zam Zoodle Oop Boop soup,You will end up oopsingHere and there and everywhere.

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And I will tell you now,Don’t add a sheep, a goat, or a cow!But anyway, since you’re almost done now,Heat it up, and make it really hotFor Zam Zoodle Oop Boop soupWhen served cold is simply snot.

Then serve it up in a dish,And blow on it if you wishTo cool it to taste.Then put it into the mouthThat is right upon your face.

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Gore Demore’s Deplorable StoreYou can always get moreAt Gore Demore’s Deplorable StoreSuch as boxes and boxes and boxesOf blood and guts and goreWith always fifty percent more.You can buy teeth and bones and fingernails,Matted ratted dirty old hair,Soapy soup, moldy baloney,And slimy green macaroni,Rancid rice, rabid rabbits, rotting rats,And three blind dead mice.You’ll never find anything niceAt Gore Demore’s Deplorable Store.Just always fifty percent moreOf all the things that’ll make you scream,And it’s the perfect place to goShopping for Halloween.

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Mix It Up and Blend It Well!Pickle juice,Turnip greens,Add a lot of ice cream,Chocolate malt,Celery stalks,Add a little hot sauce,Sugar, eggs, bacon fried;Over the onions,Please do not cry.Bananas, apples,And oranges too!Then add a bit ofLast night’s stew.Add some lemonAnd some salmonAnd don’t forgetThe tuna fish.

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Sour cream,Cottage cheese,Salt to taste,Pepper light,Be carefulNot to sneeze!

Now tomato paste,And then make hasteFor in the blenderIt will all goWith a cup of milk.Then mix it up and blend it well!Make it as smooth as silk.

Now I’ll pour a glass,And I think I’ll pass --It to you to takeThe first taste.And please, do not makeThat awful face.

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Ten Foot Jelly BeanThere’s a ten foot jelly bean in my hall,And no, no, no,I don’t like it there at all.I can’t go over itBecause it’s too tall,And I can’t get around itBecause it reaches from wall to wall,And under it, I can not crawl.There’s a ten foot jelly bean in my hall,And no, no, no,I don’t like it there at all.I tried to pry it away with our broom,And still it remainsRight in front of my room.So I went to our kitchen To get a r-e-a-l-l-y big spoon,And now I might not sleep for a weekBecause through this ten foot jelly bean,I must eat!

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Grundy BolishesGrundy BolishesNever did the dishes.Piled high in Grundy’s sinkWere things that stunk,And things that stinked.There were glasses and mugs and jugs,Plates and knives and flinks,Flunks and junk,Loons and stoons and spoons.There were spongy macaronisAnd fuzzy green crusts of breadAnd something thatDefinitely looked dead.

The dishes were piled high to the ceiling;They covered the furniture,And they covered the floor.Then one day, they walked Right out the door!The dishes went into the yardAnd out into the street.And Grundy Bolishes - remember Grundy?Well, he never claimed to be neat.

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But the neighbors, they did complain,And they did yellAbout all the yickity yuckThat they did smell.Then they went to find Grundy,Who was now hiddenSo far below the moundThat he was never to escape,Nor was he ever found.

So, if you ever haveSome dishes to wash,Just remember GrundyAnd how he got lost.

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People Say It Can’t Be Done!People say it can’t be done.People say I am too old, or I am too young.People say it is way too hard.People say never play your last card.People say my songs will never be sung,And some races are just too long to be won.People will tell you all sorts of thingsSuch as if people were meant to fly,We all would’ve been born with wings.Yet, when I try I find that before too longI realize that people are sometimes wrong.And once my journey is well begun,I find that what seems to be impossible --Can sometimes be done!

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Following Pages “About the Author”

“It is better to be a good, bad poet than it is to be a bad, good poet.”

-Ogden Nash

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” “Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!”

-Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act I, Scene III.

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About the AuthorLombard Spectator, The (IL)November 18, 2011“Triple Threat” By Allison HorneSection: NewsPage: 61

Addison’s J. Kaylin hopes to expand independent publishing business

By Allison HorneGateHouse News ServicePosted Nov. 24, 201 1 @ 01:50 P.M.

Addison, IL — Addison resident Jeffery Kalinowski is a three-pronged threat: He writes, publishes, and markets his own children’s books as Twilight Art and Book Pub-lishing.

Kalinowski, who goes by the pen name]. Kaylin, has already written and illustrated two books of his own, “Hey, Griddle, Griddle,” and “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say?” Working out of his home, Kaylin has used the Internet and modern technology to help get his books to children through online bookstores.

His books can be found on Kindle, Nook, Amazon and other sites across the web. Cus-tomers can get “Hey, Griddle, Griddle,” as an audio book that Kaylin himself recited and paired with music.

Although Kaylin has only published his own work so far, he says the whole idea is “just getting off the ground” and plans to start publishing other peoples’ work if time permits.

For now, Kaylin often finds himself delivering pizza or driving a cab just to keep the business going, but he’s determined to be successful writing and publishing books.

How did you first decide to start this business? I’ve been doing it for a long time. I had first published my own book in 1994, called “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say?” It is a paperback book of children’s poetry, like Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein. I used to sell the books out of the trunk of my car to different bookstores. A couple years ago, I put together “Hey, Griddle, Griddle” in digital cop-ies. I was a printer for 14 years and it was very difficult to get books into print with the way it was set up, but I worked for a shop that helped me out when I wanted to publish.

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What’s your writing background?I went back to college and took some business marketing classes, and I ended up taking a lot of English and writing classes. I ended up getting an associates degree in humani-ties.

What kind of books do you look to publish?Primarily children’s books and humor. Nothing X-rated, everything is G-rated. I know that the “Twilight” books are very popular, but that’s something I would never handle.

Where did you come up with the name for your business?Twilight means that space in between when you’re still dreaming but you’re awake. A lot of times you go to bed and you’re working on a problem and you get up and right there in that twilight, you figure out the problem. It’s a creative space.

What are your goals for the book publishing?In 10 years, one of the largest goals I have is to have a totally functioning business. Down the road, I want to be able to employ people with disabilities to give them an avenue. Of course, I want to make money and make a living, but as far as giving back to the community, I’d like to help people with disabilities.

As far as a publishing venue, things that are very lighthearted and humoristic and full of wit. I don’t want any general mass-market stuff. Instead, I want writing that has real literature value and substance to it. I’d also love to have a shop and a place of business. I’d like to have a bookstore (where) people can come in and take a look.

Who are some of your favorite authors?Shakespeare is my author of choice.

I also like Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and Christopher Moore.

On one end, I like humor and on the other end is the dark old stuff. I also read Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Jack Prelutsky, John Irving and C.L. Lewis.

- Allison Home

*Reprinted with permission. Copyright 2011.“Triple Threat” by Allison Horne, Addison Press, No-vember 18, 2011, Volume 18, Section: News, Page 61. “Addison’s J. Kaylin Hopes to Expand Indepen-dent Publishing Business” by Allison Horne. GateHouse News Service, Posted Nov. 24, 2011@01:50 PM. Accessed April 14th 2012. http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/otg/archive/x1379037393/Addisons-J-Kaylin-hopes-to-expand-independent-publishing-business. Record Number: a84173f3b-28368dbe5245835fb9bc026

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My late father said, “The quality of a man’s work was second to that of putting all he had into it, and not just with his back, mind you — but from deep within the truth about himself.” This is not a word-for-word quote. It is a paraphrase of something aw-fully close to what he said or, at the very least, in the way I understood it at the time.

Now with this in mind, I hope you have found some pleasure in reading this small piece of work I have just finished, at least, for the time being. I did try to spend many an honest day’s work in trying to create it. So whatever puts a close on your thoughts, tucks you in at night, quiets all your Tweedle-dees and Tweedle-dums, or just makes your pleasant dreams all seem possible, I hope you and your child will continue to en-joy “Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” for years to come.

And in any event, with all the many outstanding authors and illustrators out there becoming more available every day, I hope you will find with ease and at a decent price what you might be looking for in a great book. Thank you for recognizing the impor-tance of reading, and I wish you and yours many happy book hunting days in the future and perhaps many upon many further reading pleasures.

— J.K.

A Note from the Author

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“Zam Zoodle Oop Boop Soup!” is also available in hardcover and as an audio book CD with music clips and silly sound effects that are paired with each and every poem

recited by J.Kaylin. This CD also includes selected poems from “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say? (Second Edition)” published in 1994 and 2010. This audio book and J.Kaylin’s first book “A Yellow Jellow, What Did You Say? (Second Edition)” can be purchased where other fine books are sold or through J.Kaylin’s web site at:

http://www.jkaylin.com

If you choose to visit this author’s web site, at www.jkaylin.com, you will find a free downloadable screen saver featuring illustrations drawn and animated by J.Kaylin.

(MS Windows Only)

Additional Books by J.Kaylin

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Twilight Art and Book Publishers187 South Villa AveAddison, IL. 60101

Phone: 630-780-2454

E-mail: tweditor@jkaylin.comPermissions: 630-780-2454Web site: www.jkaylin.comSales: twsales@jkaylin.com

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/j-kaylin/40/147/9b3Facebook http://www.facebook.com/JKaylin7277

Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/JKaylin

Book Body Type Style: Sassoon Primary Medium 19 pt.Designed by Rosemary Sassoon in 1995 and Adrian Williams in 1995

Dr. Rosemary Sassoon (born 1931 in the United Kingdom) is the creator of the Sassoon series of typefaces. She is an expert in handwriting, particularly that of children. Sassoon has a Ph.D.

from the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, in Berkshire, England.

Half Title Page Type Style: Campbell 28 pt. Title Page Type Styles: Sassoon Primary Medium 48 pt. and Campbell 16 pt. Copyright Page Type Style: Times New Roman 11 pt. Dedication Page Type Styles: Times New Roman 16 pt. and 24 pt. Epigraph Pages Type Style: Sassoon Primary 18

pt. Table of Contents Type Style: Sassoon Primary Medium 14 pt.

Front Matter Type Styles: Times New Roman 30 pt. Bold and 11.5 pt.Back Matter Type Styles: Times New Roman 30 pt. Bold, 14 pt. Bold, 12 pt. Bold, 12 pt. Bold

Italic, 12 pt., 24 pt. Bold, 14 pt., 10 pt.

Trade Paperback, Perfect Bound, Paper Type: CreamDimensions: 8” x 10” (20.32 x 25.4 cm)

Twilight Art and Book Publishers

Publisher, Author, and Book Information

Twilight Art and Book Publishers

2012

Zam Zoodle Oop Soup!