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Join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast as they interview Joe Ballarini about his book, A Babysitters Guide to Monster Hunting and about being an author.
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Writer and Director Joe Ballarini is a graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Undergrad Production Program with a minor in Creative Writing. His book series, A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting published by Harper Collins is being made into a live action feature film at Netflix.
Joe's credits as a writer include the feature film My Little Pony: The Movie for Hasbro Studios, Turbo for Dreamworks Animation, and 20th Century Fox Animation’s Ice Age 4, and Epic. Joe is also left-handed.