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Lobster with a tale
Father and son write about a dinner dilemma
By Julianne McShane
Brooklyn Paper
This lobster is read all over!
A Windsor Terrace author teamed
up with his preteen son last year to
write a pick-your-own-ending picture
book about a dapper crustacean who
finds himself in hot water. Writer Michael
Buckley, who will read from “Lenny
the Lobster Can’t Stay for Dinner” at
Books Are Magic in Carroll Gardens on
April 6, alongside his now 11-year-old
co-author Finn, said that the published
story came from a game the pair played,
in which the elder Buckley would give
his son a silly title and ask him to pen
an accompanying story.
“When we were doing it, we didn’t
think it’d be a book,” said Michael Buckley,
who is a bestselling author for his
“The Sisters Grimm” and “N.E.R.D.S.”
children’s book serials. “I thought it was
so cute that I got my phone out and videotaped
myself reading it, and a couple
days later we had some phone calls from
publishers to turn it into the book.”
The story follows the titular lobster,
who is delighted to be invited to a fancy
dinner party — until he realizes that he
is slated to be the main course. Readers
can choose whether Lenny lives or dies
— but if young carnivores pick the fatal
option, the book directs them to go back to
a version in which Lenny makes a break
for it — a change the dad-and-son duo
said they made after editors panned the
original ending for being too grim.
“The first draft was kind of dark,”
Finn said.
“Lenny initially decided that he was
going to burn the house down, and then
Photo by Trey Pentecost
Red all over: Windsor Terrace authors Finn and Michael Buckley will
read from their picture book “Lenny the Lobster Can’t Stay for Dinner,”
at Books Are Magic in Carroll Gardens on April 6.
BOOKS
Story time with Michael and Finn
Buckley at Books Are Magic (225
Smith St. at Butler Street in Carroll
Gardens, www.booksaremagic.net).
April 6 at 11 a.m. Free.
eats the people who invited him to the
party,” Michael added. “We had to make
it more friendly, so we made it that Lenny
has a chance to escape.”
The younger Buckley prefers the new
version, but now refuses to eat lobster, in
solidarity with his pincered protagonist.
“I like the ending where he lives — I sort
of feel bad for lobsters now that we created
an adventure for one,” Finn said.
The youngster wrote all the jokes and
made most of the edits, while his father
focused on the structure of the story.
“It was sort of awe-inspiring to watch
these ideas come out of his head,” Michael
said. “When it was over, it was less
like I had written a book with my son,
and more like I had written a book with
another author.”
The rites of spring
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
They’re creating opening ceremonies
for the Coney Island season.
An annual three-day bonanza of
all original live performances will return
to the People’s Playground on April 5, inviting
locals to experience a broad array
of strange and stellar acts by the seashore,
according to the event’s producer.
“We want the audience to step into
and engage in a one-of-a-kind, offbeat
ceremony,” said Gabriele Schafer.
The Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival
will open on Friday night with a
ceremony on the sand, featuring a champagne
toast and music courtesy of the
Funkrust Brass Band.
What follows will be a wide variety
of acts, including burlesque, puppeteers,
sideshow performers, musicians, magicians,
and exhibitions featuring the obscure
Japanese dance form butoh.
Get your performance art fix at
Coney Island USA 1208 Surf Ave. between
The Butoh Rockettes join the Coney
Island Ritual Cabaret Festival.
Dylan Roth
W. 12th Street and Surf Avenue
in Coney Island, coney-island-usa.myshopify.
com April 5 at 7:15 p.m., April 6
at 8 p.m., and April 7 at 4 p.m. $15.
— Colin Mixson
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