Ali Solomon, thank you so much for all your patience, hard work, artistic talent, and ability to interpret our notes—on how long yeti fur is or the shape of the Aviary—and transform them into wonderful images beyond our imagining.
A million thank-yous to the Newton Writers Group—Karen, Ed, Laya, Joan, Kathryn, John, Elly, and Mordena—for their patience, perfection, and perspicacity, and for pointing out ways to make Wyoming feel more like Wyoming. Thanks always to Dayna Lorentz for being the most wonderful willing reader and a great friend.
To our intrepid parents, who raised us in the midst of a never-ending adventure and a real-life menagerie of pets, including eight dogs, one nefarious kitten, a family of cannibal gerbils, six piglets, and two screeching monkeys (some of which were, thankfully, only visitors passing through the house). And to all our sweet, goofy, cuddly pets over the years, and all those of our relatives, friends, and coworkers whose anecdotal traits helped fill out the personalities of the creatures in the Menagerie. (Not that we’re saying Maui and Yump have anything in common or anything . . . or that Sunshine is sometimes a soulful griffin cub, sometimes a melodramatic phoenix. . . .)
And, finally, to our lovely husbands and children, who patiently let us burn through phone time as we brainstormed plot twists, researched just how big a two-year-old mammoth might be, and certainly never got distracted talking about The Amazing Race.
Kari would also like to thank Tui for being such a fabulous and brilliant sister and an unparalleled writing partner. Working with you doesn’t feel like work at all, which is the best kind of job.
And Tui, being the big bossy sister, gets the last word, so she would like to thank Kari for being THE MOST fabulous and MOST brilliant (not to mention gorgeous, understanding, and ridiculously patient) sister with the biggest COOLEST brain on the planet. Could you cowrite all my books, please?
About the Authors
TUI T. SUTHERLAND & KARI SUTHERLAND are sisters and best friends, and if you can’t tell by looking at them which one is older, Tui certainly isn’t going to tell you. They grew up in South America, traveling a lot and moving several times (and they’re still only about 80 percent certain that their parents weren’t secret agents). Kari now lives in New Jersey, while Tui lives in Boston, but they use every excuse they can to see each other (like, say, writing a book together). You can visit them online at www.tuibooks.com or www.menageriebooks.com.
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Credits
Cover art © 2013 by Brandon Dorman
Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons and Alicia Mikles
Copyright
The Menagerie
Map art by Ali Solomon
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