Jessica Olien. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-235714-4
Cartoonist/journalist Olien debuts with the story of a lonely, city-dwelling shark hero who is desperate to live out his Sherlock Holmes fantasies. A “Missing Kitty” poster provides the magic opportunity, and while he has little luck interviewing...
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Jessica Olien. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-239415-6
Slotting somewhere between Mélanie Watt’s Chester books and Mystery Science Theater 3000, Olien’s spoof of dry, nonfictional picture books delivers big laughs, thanks to a pink blobfish eager for its moment in the spotlight. The book-within-a-book...
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Jessica Olien. Balzer & Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-245177-4
“Karl and Hazel are not friends,” writes Olien (The Blobfish Book) of her polar-opposite polar bear protagonists: Karl is gregarious (and maybe smells “a little” like old fish), while Hazel’s bookish shyness comes off as aloof and judgmental. When...
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Jessica Olien. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-256828-1
Olien (Hamsters Don’t Fight Fires!), who employs comedy to great effect in her stories of friendship and individuality, turns decidedly more contemplative. She asks readers to take a moment from their busy lives and distractions (there is nary a...
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Jessica Olien. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-062-56829-8
A mouse is eager to please in this goofy tale by Olien (Right Now). With
a very large cat coming for dinner, a mouse consults How to Impress a Tiger and seeks to follow the book’s instructions on how to welcome the feline. The stakes are high—tigers
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