cover image Little Miss Sunshine: Here Comes the Sun!

Little Miss Sunshine: Here Comes the Sun!

Michael Daedalus Kenny and Victoria Maderna. Viz, $6.99 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-4215-4071-9

Not to be confused with the Little Miss Sunshine movie, the Little Miss Sunshine character originates with Roger Hargreaves’s Mr. Men and Little Miss series and is being relaunched with this cute graphic novel. Little Miss Sunshine, who is as happy and joyful as her name suggests, wakes up to find an old bus on her lawn. After the bus, Little Miss Sunshine has a few other story adventures, the most entertaining of which is “Dillydale’s Got Talent,” working as a judge on a talent show alongside Mr. Fussy and Mr. Rude. Anyone can imagine how that will go. This short, colorful graphic novel reintroduces Hargreaves’s popular cast of characters with some lighthearted entertainment, and it’s a promising start for this relaunch. Ages 6–up. (Apr.)