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Tim DeRoche

Tim DeRoche
Tim DeRoche is the author of Tales of Whimsy, Verses of Woe, a book of cautionary verse and other nonsense that publishes on January 24, 2023 in honor Lewis Carroll’s birthday. He has written two other books, including the Amazon bestseller The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn set on the Los Angeles River.


In Defense of Whimsy, Nonsense, and Barbaric Balderdash in Children’s Books

Tim DeRoche on the Value of a Long-Neglected Genre of Kid Lit
January 24, 2023  By Tim DeRoche
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