Gail Gauthier to give away an autographed copy of A Year with Butch and Spike.

Go.  Go now.  Go to Gail and enter her contest, because A Year with Butch and Spike is a fantabulous book.  I adore it.

If you don't trust me*, the Kirkus review states that "Spike and Butch are the most hilariously annoying classroom cut-ups since Barbara Robinson's Herdmans in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever".

It's a freaking crime that it's out of print. 

Good thing I already own at least two copies.

*Whaddaya mean, you don't trust me??