I interviewed Howard Shapiro on October 24 2006
Q: What are you working on now?
At the moment I am marketing my Hanukkah book for the 2nd year and trying to get my anti-bullying book into schools, foundations etc. After the first of the year, I am planning to start work on my third book “Hockey Day’s” which I hope to have out in October, 2007.
Q: Tell us about your two books?
My first book was published in October, 2005. It is called “Hanukkah Counts Too!” and the premise is that there are a brother (Tom) and a sister (Tupelo) who are each eight years old and they live in a predominately non-Jewish area and they are bombarded by Christmas images, shows, movies etc. And Tupelo, questions why they have to be different and why Santa can’t bring her a tree or presents. She runs upstairs on the first night of Hanukkah but has a heart-to-heart talk with her older cousin and after the talk she comes to realize that Hanukkah is an important holiday and that it matters (and counts) too.
My new book which was released on September 12th, is called “Destructo Boy & Spillerella…We Are Who We Are!”...