Greetings everyone!

When I was planning to launch The Odd Dog, I decided to use Backerkit because it's the only crowdfunding platform that allows you to collaborate with another creator.

I immediately knew I wanted to collaborate with fellow author Katie Lockwood as she launched a campaign to create a plush stuffed animal of her main character, Rose the Owl.

Her book, Why Me, Mama is a beautiful story about Rose the Owl being afraid to invite other animals to her party because she's different. As she invites her woodland friends, she discovers they have differences too and are happy to be included. Katie is passionate about providing authentic and empowering disability representation for children and her plush characters are an extension of that mission. She plans to create plushies for each character in the story to provide comfort and cuddles to little ones who frequently spend time in the hospital due to their diagnosis. 

In the last few days of her campaign, Katie is trying to donate seventy-five plushies to children with rare Moebius syndrome (her daughter Rose's diagnosis) and needs 25 more donations to meet that goal.  If you'd like to give a plush to a child in need, you can do so here. 

PLUS-- When you support both The Odd Dog and Rose the Owl Plush, you get bonus rewards from BOTH of our campaigns!

As always, I am so, so grateful for your support of The Odd Dog. If you can, I hope you will consider pledging to Katie's campaign as well.

Thank you all, and stay tuned for more updates!

Sincerely,

Leia B