"People often take a stab at children's books after reading "Goodnight Moon" to their own kids and becoming convinced they can do better. But Mr. Forbes hasn't read to his son Miguel in decades. Miguel is in his thirties. Miguel is Forbes's president of television and licensing. It seems Mr. Forbes simply has crazy rhymes going through his head. He'll wake up in the middle of the night, don his special Edward Beiner reading glasses with built-in reading lights, write for a couple of hours, roll over and go back to sleep. 'I write to amuse me, ' he said. 'I write stuff I'd like to read.'"--"Wall Street Journal" profile of Robert Forbes
"Playful rhymes and charmingly intricate illustrations."--"Miami Herald"
"Chocolate bunnies, crying crocodiles, and fortune-telling seals star in Forbes and Searle's companion to 2007's "Beastly Feasts!" There's no shortage of offbeat characters (who become even more so in Searle's kinetic cartoons), including a color-changing emu, a wel
