![]() ![]() Author’s agent: Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. With spreads jam-packed with detail and event-as the action moves from home to bustling sidewalks, past traffic jams and into the hospital (for a visit) and the library-it’s an undeniable feast for the eyes. The bright, saturated acrylic environments are densely and vibrantly populated with animal characters in an expansive variety of roles (a guitar-playing gorilla teacher, an ursine tourist in a Hawaiian shirt, a crocodile short-order cook flipping flapjacks) their energy, both potential and unleashed, and their eager, saucerlike eyes convey a sense of carpe diem bordering on manic. ![]() She has been happily paired with Jean Reidy for Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019, and Sylvie.She also is the author-illustrator of A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals Stumpkin Vampenguin and Our Pool. Renny) work possesses the exaggerated goofiness and hipster-retro edge of contemporary animation, and he revels in riffing on Reidy’s (Too Princessy!) simple, cataloguelike rhymes (“Shopping, sacking,/ sorting, stacking-/ rows so nice and neat./ School bells ringing./ Reading, singing,/ friends to meet and greet”). Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, an illustrator, and art director of children’s books. ![]() A rabbit toddler surveys the bustle and occasional comic chaos of his beloved town from the vantage point of a buggy being pushed by his mother. ![]()
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