Brighton Brothers Author First Children's Book
Blake and Mitchell Brooks are seniors at Brighton High School.
What started out as a mixture of projects from video production and math class has turned a pair of Brighton twins into published authors. Blake and Mitchell Brooks, seniors at Brighton High School, recently released their first children's book, The Monkey and the Star. The boys came about their idea for the book in a convoluted way after listening to commentary on an episode of South Park, by talking to one of their friends about toys lying around in her room and two assignments from classes at school. The rhyming just kind of happened on its own, according to Blake. "We would read it in class," he said. "We never intended it to be a book, it was just for fun." Both Blake and Mitchell began writing the story during their sophomore year in…
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Kim Pohl
8:22 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Awesome! Can't wait to get our copy. Congratulations to both of you. more ›