When I first got a look at my beautiful book jacket, created by Greg Swearingen, I fell in love. It was perfect.
Then some people who knew me as a kid thought Jemma looked a lot like me, and I had to prove to them that I was not nearly as cute.
That's me in 1978, my first summer of camp.
Then my daughter told me there was a girl at Camp Birch Knoll who looked exactly like Jemma. Lo and behold, I saw quite a resemblance.
But then I got an e-mail from the proud Nana of Clara Rosemary D. Clara is a dead-ringer for Jemma!
Amazing!
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7 comments:
Hey Brenda - Mary Loftus here. I can't remember my blogger password. This is too cute! I've been keeping up with you via your blog. Great updates. :)
Hey Mary! I miss you. Hope everything is going great in California!!!
Wow, Clara does look like her! (Or she looks like Clara.)
Wow, that's SCARY! Clara is adorable, on or off the cover. Great contest, Brenda!
That is one adorable kid! So adorable I actually have to post a note about it. ;) Congrats on a great cover.
I found your post through the Carnival of Children's LIterature. I don't have any Jemma look-alike photos, but I do have a daughter named Jemma and am happy to see it as a book character's name!
Hooray for girls named Jemma and for girls who look like Jemma!
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