Horace, Morris, and Dolores like cheese more than anything else in the world. So imagine their distress when Dolores develops a cheese allergy! All of a sudden, she's stuck eating cookies and peanut butter sandwiches while everyone else enjoys that delicious cheese. Things get even worse when they find out that the Everything Cheese Festival is going to roll into town in a couple weeks. Should Dolores leave town? Hide under her bed? Instead, she decides to try her own hand at cooking foods she can eat. Soon, everyone loves the cheese-free snacks Dolores is eating, and they all learn that there is more to life than cheese.

James Howe is the author of more than ninety books for young readers. Bunnicula, coauthored by his late wife Deborah and published in 1979, is considered a modern classic of children’s literature. The author has written six highly popular sequels, along with the spinoff series Tales from the House of Bunnicula and Bunnicula and Friends. Among his other books are picture books such as Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores and beginning reader series that include the Pinky and Rex and Houndsley and Catina books. He has also written for older readers. The Misfits, published in 2001, inspired the nationwide antibullying initiative No Name-Calling Week, as well as three sequels, Totally Joe, Addie on the Inside, and Also Known as Elvis. A common theme in James Howe’s books from preschool through teens is the acceptance of difference and being true to oneself. Visit him online at JamesHowe.com.

Amy Walrod won the Golden Kite Award for The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. Her first picture book for Atheneum was the bestselling Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.