A week ago Sunday, Books & Books in Bal Harbour, Fla., hosted an event for Loren Long and his new Otis book, Otis and the Tornado (Philomel). While there, Long drew a picture of Otis on the arm of Books & Books' children's book buyer Becky Quiroga. Once the drawing was done, she had the drawing tattooed. Otis has joined Quiroga's other literary tattoos--the Very Hungry Caterpillar drawn by Eric Carle, the Pigeon drawn by Mo Willems and the Monkey from It's a Book drawn by Lane Smith.
