Out of the Water and Onto the Airwaves
This past Tuesday, Michael Phelps appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, where he discussed swimming as well as his new picture book, How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals, illustrated by Ward Jenkins (S&S, June). After O’Brien and Phelps discussed the swimmer’s recent record-breaking 100-meter butterfly and compared their respective wingspans, the conversation turned to Phelps’s book, which quantifies some of the enormous distances and other numbers involved in Phelps’s training. Regarding the 10,000 calories Phelps consumes daily while training, O’Brien said, “You’re a very young man. Later on in life, when you’re not in the water... I have a brother that consumes 10,000 calories a day and watches television—it’s a different story. So what I’m saying is enjoy this period of your life.” Photo: Paul Drinkwater.
That’s One Dead-On Cake
Last Thursday, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers celebrated Tonya Hurley’s ghostgirl: homecoming, the second book featuring undead heroine Charlotte Usher, at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library. The highlight of the event: a custom six-foot ghostgirl cake from the bakers at Charm City Cakes (the stars of the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes). The cake itself took 56 hours to create and is tentatively slated to be featured on the season finale of Ace of Cakes in October. Here, Hurley (r.) is joined by (l. to r.) Charm City’s Geof, Duff and Mary Alice.
