Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9677-3
Z, a robot with a boxy head, pincer arms, and kind, yellow eyes, discovers a message in a bottle that’s “too smudgy to read,” but ends, “Love, Beatrice.” The robot seeks out the meaning of the two words, but the robots in its family cannot compute...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6909-8
Kelp has a narwhal-like horn, but it’s kind of short, and he has trouble swimming like the other narwhals. On land, he discovers why: he’s a unicorn. (Kelp has a transparent diving helmet, so breathing underwater is no problem.) Fortunately, both...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6911-1
Dress-up-loving Harriet wears costumes everywhere; in one early scene, Sima (Not Quite Narwhal) shows her in the dentist’s chair, opening her mouth wide while inside an equally toothy dinosaur outfit. Dressed as a penguin, Harriet—who has dark skin,
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-5344-1877-6
With many nods to silent film—including a black-and-white palette, elegant title cards dividing the story into three parts, highly dramatic close-ups, and iris shots—Sima (Love, Z) tells the nearly wordless story of a bespectacled boy and the dog he
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-4168-2
When Jules’s big sister bounds into the ocean, boogie board in tow, Jules makes plans to impress her via “the BIGGEST... FANCIEST... MOST EXCELLENT castle that has ever been built.” Believing that “Maybe the Ocean will help!” she starts building...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-4170-5
A little sympathy for the eerie purple mansion for sale on the hill, please—she suspects that she may be haunted. “I’m a house... People are supposed to live in me,” she worries. “Who would want to live in a haunted house?” As a wide-eyed black cat...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-9717-7
In Sima’s version of a crossover episode, Nimbus, the titular pegasus—who has purply blue wings and an aviator’s cap to match—meets Kelp, the unicorn protagonist of 2017’s Not Quite Narwhal. Nimbus, whose outlier status in the sometimes “too empty”...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-6659-3674-3
Kat and Ari cherish every moment spent making cookies with their grandfather, but once Grandpa sets the baking timer, the “difficult” part—waiting—begins. So the kids fashion a cardboard box into a time machine and set its dial. It’s meant “to take...
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Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-6659-6608-5
The protagonist of this identity-focused picture book, a snow kid created and named “Twig” by a bunch of human children, begins their “frozen and silent” life sporting a jaunty top hat. Though Twig “sounded like a good thing to be,” a wind’s...
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