Background
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of East Lansing.
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The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless #1
( Are you rotten enough to read this book? Ha! And I mea...)
Are you rotten enough to read this book? Ha! And I mean that in a laugh-in-your-face, you’re not-really-rotten-at-all way. Have you ever destroyedthe planet? Turned earthworms into your personalarmy of doom? Refused to eat your broccoli andhidden it in your underwear? Well, never mind thatlast one. I mean, who hasn’t? But still, no one is asrotten as Zachary Ruthless. In fact, his adventuresare so rotten you might want to just put this bookdown now and back away very slowly.
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Allan Woodrow
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Allan attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then became an advertising copywriter in Detroit, Michigan.
Career
His first book, the Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, debuted in 2011 and was published by HarperCollins Children"s Books. Woodrow is a writer of books for children. They currently reside outside Chicago and have two children.
Woodrow began writing children"s literature in 2009, and by the end of the year had sold his first book, the Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, a graphic novel illustrated by Aaron Blecha.
Allan is also the writer of The Pet War (Scholastic, 2013) and contributed to the collection Lucky Dog: Twelve Tales of Rescued Dogs (Scholastic, 2014). Also, under the pen name Fowler DeWitt, he is the author of The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School (Simon & Schuster, 2013).
Woodrow took the pen name from two towns near where he grew up, Fowler, Michigan and DeWitt, Michigan. A sequel to Mumpley Middle School, The Amazing Wilmer Dooley (Simon & Schuster, 2014) was released in August 2014.
Allan Woodrow"s next title, to be released in 2015, is titled Class Dismissed (Scholastic).
Of The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, Publishers Weekly writes, "If it"s true that everyone loves a bad boy, Zachary should attract a sizable fan base," adding that "Blecha"s high-energy cartoons add extra absurdity to this pun-studded slice of frivolity, which is likely to snare reluctant readers with a fondness for slapstick.".
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The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless #1
( Are you rotten enough to read this book? Ha! And I mea...)
- The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless #3: Sourballs
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The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless #1
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