children's book
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author. Her first novel, ''The Masterwork of a Painting Elephant'' was published by
Farrar Straus and Giroux
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in 2011. The book has been translated into
German
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,
Hebrew
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,
Thai
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and
Chinese
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. Her next two books, ''The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles'' and ''The Ornithologist's Dream'' will be released by
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Confessions of an Imaginary Friend: A Memoir by Jacques Papier ' for Rocky Pond Books in 2017, which was going to be adapted by
Steve Martino
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for
Blue Sky Studios
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.
On November 22, 2021 it was announced that the adaptation of Confessions of an Imaginary Friend was revived at
Disney Television Animation
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as part of the promotion of former Blue Sky Studios development CEO Lisa Fragner at DTVA, the film will release as a
Disney+
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Original Film.
Cuevas holds a degree in English from
Williams College
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, and a MFA from
University of Virginia
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. She was born in
Lee, Massachusetts
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