Local author launches her third rhyming book with a quirky hook

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Local author launches her third rhyming book with a quirky hook

On the heels of National Poetry Month Phyllis Schwartz will be launching her third rhyming picture book on March 7 titled “Laggie and Grillo: An Unlikely Friendship” between a lizard and a cricket. Partially autobiographical, the whimsically illustrated story reflects Schwartz’s childhood passion for writing poetry that she cleverly used as a tool to vent her irksome annoyances and unleash her creative spirit much like her main character Yoshi, …