Beneath the peaceful exterior of the leafy town of Tall Tree, the brutal baby gangster underworld is simmering to a hard boil. Squeezy the Cheeks, undisputed leader of the long ruling North Wood crew, is facing the toughest challenge of his career: his archnemesis Harry the Rash, who rules the Poopypants Gang with an iron rattle, is making a play for Squeezy’s territory. Mama’s Boy, the freshest recruit into Squeezy’s mob of infant thugs, is unwittingly thrust into the middle of the massive heist Squeezy must pull off to keep himself and his crew in their seat of power. Everything is at stake for the North Wood Gang. But can Mama’s Boy keep it together to make the score, or will the mysterious redhead he encounters at Story Time distract him at his most important hour? Join Mama’s Boy as he journeys into the dark underbelly of the baby hoodlum wars and is forced to change his worldview forever.
Targeted Age Group:
Adults, Adults with Kids
How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
In Little Trouble In Tall Tree, author Michael Fertik has given rise to a new genre: Baby Noir™ Mystery. A wicked blend of Disney meets The Godfather in Go the F**k to Sleep, Little Trouble In Tall Tree is a children’s book for adults that takes parents into a secret infant hoodlum world that exists right under their tired eyes. Ripe with hysterical wit, humor, babies and boobs, Trouble In Tall Tree is a must-read for every parent, ready to laugh, celebrate, and wince at the pleasures, pains, and perils of parenthood.
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Just do it! Put your ideas on paper. And don’t be afraid to share them w/ others!
Author Bio:
Michael Fertik has a day job in Silicon Valley. Everything was going along smoothly until the day his wife gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2011. From then on, Michael was smitten. Smitten first with his son, to be sure. But second, Michael found himself smitten with his son’s enormous, round cheeks. Watching the boy navigate the world, responding to his commands for milk, toys, and apple sauce, and observing the baby’s capacity for an imperious eye and flashes of temper when things didn’t go his way, Michael soon realized that the child could well be the leader of a secret baby underworld gang in search of control over the key commodities of infant life. So he started calling his son Squeezy the Cheeks and made up stories about his gang. Baby Noir was born. When Michael shared some of the Baby Noir stories with friends, they confessed that their kids were noirish infant desperadoes, too, recklessly and relentlessly intriguing and bruising their way toward dominance over the household trade in baby formula, milk bottles, blankets, and more. Some of those kids have made their way into the stories as characters. After discussion with family, Michael decided to publish so that he could share the tales with moms and dads of other infant gangsters around the world. Pretty much every parent has a child who is a baby gangster, Michael has realized, with squeezable cheeks or noses or feet, and always on a desperate and determined mission for the milk.
Michael lives with his wife and son in Palo Alto, California. He continues to squeeze his son’s enormous cheeks every day.
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