Princess author balances the scales
Beach Books Danny Fanny Saves Christmas by Chris Patton. $5.99, Patton Pending Reviewed Author Chris Patton gets a hug from wife Karen during an appearance at {pages}: a Bookstore. Chris Patton of Manhattan Beach, a physician by day and a children’s author by night and on weekends, drew on his daughters for the inspiration for his first book, the girl-centric A Totally True Princess Story. Now, with Danny Fanny Saves Christmas, Patton evens the score. “A lot of my daughters’ friends are boys, so I decided to write a boy’s book,” said Patton, 47. The result is a warm, inventive picture book with semi-comic book sensibilities. It is a bit more tightly focused than Princess, but with the same zesty imagination. The title character is a boy superhero who must rescue Santa from his kidnapper, Anti-Claus, a villain who enters houses through the toilet instead of the chimney, and steals presents rather than giving them. Along the way Danny recruits other boys and girls to help him, has numerous adventures, and learns about bad guys called Cooties from the South Pole. The Danny Fanny story came from Patton’s mind without a great deal of effort, once he set his sights on a book for boys…
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