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Thanks to the interns at Sourcebooks , I'm excited to be a part of The Snatchabook blog tour. The Snatchabook is a skillfully rhymed bedtime story featuring the cutest little villain, a Snatchabook. The illustrations are cheerful but nuanced, and will offer many details to discover as the book is shared again and again.  It's sure to be a bedtime favorite. The Snatchabook 's author, Helen Docherty, has graciously accepted an offer to answer a few questions. Lisa:  The Snatchabook has put me in a lighthearted mood, so here are a few lighthearted questions!  Snatchabook is such a cute name.  Was it the seed that started the story, or did it grow from the story? Helen: The idea of a book thief came to me first, and it was while I was trying to find the right name for him that the character and the story started to form in my mind. At first I wasn’t sure what he would be like, or what to call him, so I played around with names; the book cruncher? The book snatcher? Th...