Full Title: “Family Affair: Bob Odenkirk Appearing In North Jersey For Poetry Book Written With Daughter (via Daily Voice Hudson County NJ)”
Bob Odenkirk is keeping his poetry book all in the family.
The “Better Call Saul” star is the author of “Zilot & And Other Important Rhymes”, a book of poems he wrote with his two children when they were younger. His daughter, Erin Odenkirk, a graduate of Pratt Institute, did the illustrations for the book.
While the family was home together during the pandemic, Bob revisited the Olde Time Poetry Book and realized he had something there.
“I said to Erin, ‘You do the drawings, I’ll rewrite the poems,’ ” Bob told Daily Voice last year. “Some of them are good.”
Zilot is an original word that Bob’s son, Nathan, came up with.
“He came home once and said let’s build a zilot,” Erin remembers.
A zilot is an indoor fort made up of couch pillows meant to evoke a secret tent room. The Odenkirks used to go in there with a special light and read books and write poems. Bob said he would often read four to five books a night to his kids and said he always made it a priority to read to his children.
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