Anyone else out there in love with and insanely jealous of the Pioneer Woman, a.k.a. Ree Drummond? She has a handsome, cowboy husband, four cute kids (or "punks" as she calls them) and they all live on a gorgeous ranch in Oklahoma. I think a lot of city girls, including this one, harbor some fantasies about living in the country. And not only is she a blogger, but she is now the author of three books! My envy is growing. She has a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl; a romance novel/memoir: The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- a Love Story; and now a children's book: Charlie the Ranch Dog, about her basset hound, Charlie. Check out her blog to see a behind the scenes look at how the book came about. Full disclosure: this is not how most children's books come about. First-time authors rarely get to pick their illustrator and usually there is not much interaction between author and illustrator.