tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41618236081187655672024-03-13T10:59:06.710-07:00By Matt BerginI've written some things, and I'd love for you to read them. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-80896330813976623182018-02-12T04:50:00.003-08:002018-02-12T04:50:45.381-08:00No Butts About It There’s a part of me<br />
I cannot see<br />
But from what I’ve heard<br />
I should let it beUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-38561456041795198072018-02-08T14:31:00.000-08:002018-12-20T14:27:10.494-08:00The 12 Nights of Krampus -- Work in Progress <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;">I'll be <i>fleshing</i> this out over the next few months. Look out for updates (and be good, for goodness sake)! </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;">On the [X] night of Krampus,
my true love screamed to me:</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><b>11</b> Biters biting!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><b>12</b> Mumblers mumbling!</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-igOVpkwPruc/WnzN4uZqXmI/AAAAAAAAHfE/QxWinUQdUHIBFBof3V6Hbm4YlmSFcPNHgCLcBGAs/s1600/brom-krampus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="352" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-igOVpkwPruc/WnzN4uZqXmI/AAAAAAAAHfE/QxWinUQdUHIBFBof3V6Hbm4YlmSFcPNHgCLcBGAs/s640/brom-krampus.jpg" width="408" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by Brom, from his book Krampus: the Yule Lord (which is a fun read). <br />
https://www.amazon.com/Krampus-Yule-Lord-Brom/dp/0062095668</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-2614875509899333342017-09-05T19:27:00.003-07:002017-09-05T19:27:42.261-07:00Two KidsThere once were two kids, their names Work and Play.<br />
But their names would be different every day.<br />
<br />
One was the fun one, the other a chore.<br />
But the roles would reverse from what came before.<br />
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This day to that, and the day after that, one kid was a joy, while the other a brat.<br />
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<span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">List Price:</span> <span class="projectSummaryEmphasize" style="font-weight: bold;">$11.99</span></div>
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<span class="projectSummaryEmphasize" style="font-weight: bold;">8" x 10" </span><span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">(20.32 x 25.4 cm) </span><br />
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30 pages</div>
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<span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">ISBN-13:</span> 978-1544744490 <span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">(CreateSpace-Assigned)</span><br />
<span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">ISBN-10:</span> 1544744498<br />
<span class="projectSummaryLight" style="color: #666666;">BISAC:</span> Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Squirrels</div>
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<span class="projectSummaryDescription" id="projectSummaryDescriptionContent" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pointy nose, hairless tail, clumsy with acorns, and bad at climbing -- Fluffless is the worst squirrel in the park. </span><br />
<span class="projectSummaryDescription" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But he is determined to keep up with the others -- all the way up, up, up, to the top of the great oak tree! </span><br />
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<span class="projectSummaryDescription" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Illustrations by D.L. Skandle ("Little Duckie's Day").</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-59583568258198178132016-09-07T08:20:00.000-07:002016-09-07T08:20:03.254-07:00Fluffless Story SampleWe first meet Fluffless in a precarious predicament, proving why he's considered the worst squirrel in the park...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-22883705173010209052016-04-11T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-11T07:00:09.610-07:00"Poopa's Garden" by Matt Bergin<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Happy birthday, Dad. We all still miss you. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Poopa’s Garden</span></b><br />
<i>by Matt Bergin </i><br />
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My dad said, “Let’s go visit Poopa's Garden!”<br />
I shrugged and said I thought that sounded swell.<br />
But then I had to ask Dad, "Who is Poopa?"<br />
"He’s someone special that you didn't know so well."<br />
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So we took a drive upstate to Poopa's Garden.<br />
And on the way, Dad said who 'Poopa' was to me.<br />
"I once had a daddy, too," is how he put it.<br />
"And that’s the Poopa we are on our way to see."<br />
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I then asked why we called it Poopa’s Garden.<br />
"I’m glad you asked. I know it's a pretty funny name…"<br />
"Grand Poobah" is what he wanted us to call him.<br />
But he misspoke, and now our sense of humor is to blame."<br />
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So I figured we’d have fun at Poopa’s Garden.<br />
He sounded silly, which to me just sounded great.<br />
Dad knew a laugh is what I was expecting, and he smiled.<br />
"A good joke is something Poopa could appreciate."<br />
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We stopped along the way to Poopa’s Garden.<br />
We bought some flowers, which my daddy let me pick.<br />
"How ‘bout these white lilies?" he suggested.<br />
But I liked yellow daisies, which he said would do the trick.<br />
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"I have to warn you, before we get to Poopa’s Garden..."<br />
"You won't SEE your Poopa there…like with your eyes."<br />
I didn't understand the tremble in my daddy’s voice:<br />
"You see, Poopa ... my daddy ... well … he died."<br />
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We stood silent at the gate to Poopa’s Garden.<br />
As it opened, Daddy held me. “Don’t be scared.”<br />
"Is Poopa scary!? I asked nervously of daddy.<br />
"No, not at all…it's just scary when you lose someone who cared."<br />
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I wasn't scared, or sad, or mad in Poopa's Garden.<br />
There was nothing to upset me there at all.<br />
Just a sea of roundish stones on a field of fresh-cut grass,<br />
And a few trees I bet look pretty in the Fall.<br />
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I got to play around in Poopa's Garden.<br />
It wasn't quite a park, but it was close.<br />
I circled trees and bobbed between those rounded stones…<br />
And I took care to not disturb the resting ghosts.<br />
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We spent the day, my Dad and me, in Poopa’s Garden.<br />
Dad showed me pictures and told me stories of way-back-when.<br />
I guess I did feel kind of sad to never know him…<br />
But I’ll be happy when we visit him again.<br />
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<b>The End</b> (is never really the end)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-59317163771602956852016-02-26T09:59:00.000-08:002016-02-26T09:59:31.100-08:00Rats!There's a <a href="http://www.worldratday.com/" target="_blank">World Rat Day</a>!? What an odd thing to discover while fast at work on my next picture book project, which happens to feature a rat who thinks he's a squirrel. And how serendipitous that that day (April 4th) is the deadline for submissions for a <a href="http://www.artforanimalssake.org/#!Call-to-Artists-for-The-Rattie-Uprising/li3zl/56be2d330cf2a547431cda0b" target="_blank">rat-themed art exhibition</a>?<br />
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Reaching out now. Let's see if <i><b>Fluffless</b></i> can make his debut on a bigger stage than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slater-Boy-Dry-Erase-Face/dp/1493616978/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456509367&sr=1-4&keywords=matt+bergin" target="_blank">Amazon CreateSpace</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-60597234529890902152015-10-29T06:17:00.000-07:002015-10-29T06:17:00.097-07:00Lesky Lee Free! A Month of Monsters concludesThe<b> Month of Monsters</b> has come to its end. Thanks so much for following along. If you like what you've seen, I encourage you to order your very own complete copy of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lesky-Monster-Monsters-Matt-Bergin/dp/1512355313" target="_blank">Lesky Lee, Monster of Monsters</a></i>. The Kindle and Comixology versions collect everything you've just read in a complete digital reading experience, while the print-on-demand edition includes the full book PLUS a few bonus pages showing the origins of Lesky Lee as I originally drew her, way back in the olden days of 2012 for the Brooklyn Museum's <a href="https://www.sketchbookproject.com/" target="_blank">Sketchbook Project</a>.<br />
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Special thanks to my illustrator (who could also be yours -- he's freelance!), <a href="http://widemanillustrations.com/" target="_blank">Zach Wideman</a>, who helped me create such a vibrant and professional looking book for the second time. (If you haven't seen the first, by the way, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slater-With-Dry-Erase-Face-ebook/dp/B00DL12EJA" target="_blank">it's pretty darn good, too</a>.)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-8906275083925201292015-10-27T06:00:00.000-07:002015-10-27T06:00:03.693-07:00Lesky Lee Free! A Month of Monsters -- pages 33 + 34<b>A Month of Monsters</b> continues! Every day in October leading up to Halloween, I'm sharing another page from my newest picture book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lesky-Monster-Monsters-Matt-Bergin/dp/1512355313" target="_blank">Lesky Lee, Monster of Monsters</a></i>. If you like what you see, or think someone else would like such a treat, click the link to purchase the book for Kindle or print-on-demand.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-35015724063119280092015-10-22T07:20:00.003-07:002015-10-22T07:20:41.030-07:00You can be (near)by Matt Bergin at P.S. 81 Fall Fun Day book sale & signing I will be selling and signing physical copies of <b>Lesky Lee, Monster of Monsters</b> this Sunday (10/25) at the <a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/10/x081/default.htm" target="_blank">Robert J. Christen School</a> (aka <a href="http://www.ps81pa.org/" target="_blank">P.S. 81</a>) in Riverdale. Buying the print-on-demand book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=lesky+lee+monster" target="_blank">online</a> costs $12.99 + shipping...but my <b><u>special in-person price will be $10</u></b> per copy!! Supplies are limited and I am hoping to be sold out of physical books at the end of the day, so please stop by to help me achieve that goal. (And if you already have a copy of MoM, bring it over for a signature and a thank you.)<br />
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The real Lesky Lee will be on hand to help amuse the masses, and we'll have <a href="http://bymattbergin.blogspot.com/2015/09/lesky-lee-classroom-activity-visual.html" target="_blank">MoM activity sheets</a> for everyone who buys a book and some other treats to keep folks coming. <br />
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We hope to see you there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-3665483821210523532015-10-22T05:55:00.000-07:002015-10-22T05:55:00.202-07:00Lesky Lee Free! A Month of Monsters -- pages 25 + 26<b>A Month of Monsters</b> continues! Every day in October leading up to Halloween, I'm sharing another page from my newest picture book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lesky-Monster-Monsters-Matt-Bergin/dp/1512355313" target="_blank">Lesky Lee, Monster of Monsters</a></i>. If you like what you see, or think someone else would like such a treat, click the link to purchase the book for Kindle or print-on-demand.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161823608118765567.post-63782558769240344582015-10-20T06:39:00.001-07:002015-10-20T06:39:23.644-07:00Picture Books Review on Matt Bergin & Lesky LeeWord is spreading about me and my books!<br />
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<a href="http://picturebooksreview.com/">PictureBooksReview.com</a> has posted not only a review of "Lesky Lee, Monster of Monsters" but also an interview with yours truly about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lesky-Monster-Monsters-Matt-Bergin/dp/1512355313" target="_blank">MoM</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slater-With-Dry-Erase-Face-ebook/dp/B00DL12EJA" target="_blank">Blank Slater</a>, <a href="http://widemanillustrations.com/" target="_blank">Zach Wideman</a>, and how I make the doughnuts.<br />
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<b><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23monsterofmonsters&src=typd" target="_blank">#MonsterofMonsters</a> review <a href="http://www.picturebooksreview.com/2015/10/lesky-lee-monster-of-monsters-2015.html?m=1" target="_blank">here</a>.</b><br />
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<b>Matt Bergin interview <a href="http://www.picturebooksreview.com/2015/10/a-conversation-with-matt-bergin.html?m=1" target="_blank">here</a>. </b><br />
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