Laurie A. Jacobs

An excerpt from So Much In Common:

One day Philomena invited Horace to dinner. “After all,” she said to him, “what good is cooking if you have no one to share it with?”

Horace ate everything Philomena served and asked for seconds. “Philomena,” he said, patting his stomach, “that was the best meal I’ve ever eaten.”

The next day, Horace called to Philomena over the fence. “Would you like to hear a joke?” he asked.

“Oh yes,” said Philomena. “I love a good joke.”

“What happened to the farmer’s eggs when she washed them?” Horace asked.

“I don’t know,” said Philomena. “What?”

“Nothing,” said Horace. “But you should have seen those eggs when she tried to wring them dry!”

Philomena chuckled. “That’s a good one, Horace. Tell me some more!”

From then on, Philomena and Horace spent almost every day together. Their friends didn’t understand.

“Whatever do you see in that Philomena?” Horace’s friends asked him.

“I don’t know,” said Horace. “But she likes my jokes, and she cooks like a dream.”

“Whatever do you see in that Horace?” Philomena’s friends asked her.

“I don’t know,” said Philomena. “But he loves what I cook, and he tells the funniest jokes.”

Reviews for So Much In Common:

“A charming tale of a friendship in which a few things in common mean so much to two protagonists.”
“[An] excellent picture-book debut....”
“[A] charming and expressive picture book debut...”