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I’m thrilled to welcome Ruth McNally Barshaw, the author and illustrator of the popular Ellie McDoodle series, back to the Mixed-Up Files. This has been a wonderful week for Ruth. Her birthday was on Monday–happy belated birthday, Ruth! And yesterday, Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel was released as a reissued paperback. Huge congrats! The new cover looks fantastic. Can you tell our readers a bit about your Ellie McDoodle series and why two of your books are being reissued? Thanks so much, Mindy. 🙂 Ellie McDoodle is a highly-illustrated, middle grade novel series about an 11-year-old girl who records her daily observations and art in a sketch journal. It has humor, games and crafts (complete with instructions), pranks, nature, and a lot of heart. Bloomsbury, my publisher, tells me that Ellie McDoodle is doing well, selling overseas and in Canada and the United States. It’s on many school summer reading lists, state reading lists, and Battle of the Bookshttps://fromthemixedupfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ruthtoon07-102x150.jpg