Today is National Siblings Day! Each year on this day we tend to write about our favorite literary siblings -- like Katniss and Prim, or Mary Anne and Dawn from the BSC (yes, step siblings count!). But this year there's something even cooler to talk about: twins. Specifically, twin OOMers.
Fun fact: three of us OOMers are identical twins! In addition to yours truly, both Megan and Jeremy have identical twins. And we're all lucky that our twins live in the same city that we do, since each of us is very close with our twins.
Which leads us to...
Fun fact #2: Jeremy's twin brother also works here at Scholastic! How cool is that? They both began as interns and now work in different departments but still manage to confuse the people they pass in the hallways.
Twins are weird. (I'm allowed to say that.) But they're also awesome, and amazing examples of how cool science is. I mean, we literally started off as one thing that then split in two. We're separate individuals who just so happen to have an incredible bond and share the same DNA.
Let's consider some literary twins: obviously, the Weasley twins are top of mind. But there's also twin sets like Cath and Wren from Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl (Cath and Wren...Catherine...get it?), and Marilyn and Carolyn Arnold from The Baby-sitters Club. There's Ivy and Olivia from My Sister the Vampire, and Adah and Lea from The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Goodreads has a great list of twins in lit, too.
All siblings are special, but I posit that there's something a bit more special about twins. Today, on Siblings Day, I'm giving a shout-out to my big sis and little bro, but especially to my twin.
