Isabelle and isabellas little book of rules

Losing a book of life rules they had been writing together turns out to have been the luckiest thing to happen in year-old Isabelle Busath and 8-year-old Isabella Thordsen's lives. At the time, Fox 40 mentioned a possible publishing deal -- and now, it seems that dream has become a reality. The original book had rules, which ranged from the mundane "do your chores" to the more colorful "don't bite the dentist" , but the new version will reportedly include around The authors apparently started the book with their younger siblings in mind. In an interview with Publishers Weekly in May , the book's editor, Lisa Rao, explained that the published version would show the girls' handwritten versions of the rules, and said keeping the girls' spelling mistakes made the finished version "even more sincere. Rao also explained that she was interested in publishing the book even before she knew who had written it.