Writer and illustrator Chris Monroe

What is your favorite breakfast food?
Toast

What is your favorite piece of clothing?
My winter jacket

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title would be?
Ever Heard of a Straight Edge?

What did you want to be when you were 12 years old?
A kid who goes to boarding school instead of Ordean

What is your favorite language other than your own native language?
Xhosa

What is the last book you read and why did you choose it?
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates. I like John Irving books, and bought it for three dollars at Half Price Books.

What was in your high school locker?
So much paper!

If you had a band, what would you name it?
Elton Flan

What is your favorite weird food combination?
Spaghetti, red wine, and a glass of milk

Tell us two truths and one lie about yourself.
I love the Marx Brothers, tanning, and roasted beets

Duluth’s Chris Monroe is an illustrator and author of several children’s books including Totally Uncool, Monkey With a Tool Belt, and Monkey With a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem.  She is also a painter and cartoonist, known for drawing “Violet Days” published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune.  Monroe’s children’s book, Sneaky Sheep, was recently selected one of the 100 books recommended for reading and sharing for children by the New York Public Library.