Bad Drawer
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“The Stone Soup of collaborative creativity—eight thumbs up!”—Jessica Love, author of Julián Is a Mermaid
"Bad Drawer is inspiring for every kind of drawer, and it is such a fun, creative way to show what can happen when we work together with our friends." —Nathan Pyle, #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Strange Planet
A hilarious and gorgeous picture book by A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars author Seth Fishman, following a bad drawer who works together with his friends to help bring his wildest stories to life.
Seth has a super fantastic story in his head. A story so completely awesome and unbelievably amazing that he needs to get it out on paper and share it with the world right away. There's only one problem: He's a bad drawer. Like, really bad. He's tried and tried, but his illustrations are never quite like he imagined when they actually land on the page.
But he has an idea that might fix things: What if his friends help him bring his story to life? A delightful picture book featuring work from award-winning illustrators Jessixa Bagley, Armand Baltazar, Anna Bond, Travis Foster, Jessica Hische, Tillie Walden, and Ethan Young, Bad Drawer will make readers laugh out loud and embrace their flaws -- while also having quite a bit of fun in the process.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
They're good at math and can make delicious cookies, but the unseen narrator of this title by Fishman (When I Wake Up) finds their art less than polished ("It's like my hands can't hear my brain"), offering proof of this perceived lack in the form of several marker-style drawings. But the speaker does have a ripping story idea, featuring "a mouse named Bailey who rides a half-cat half-bird named Catbird, and how they save the mouse kingdom from invading wand-wielding dragons!" Though they don't appreciate their own rendering of the story, the book's mood lightens when they realize that they can connect with a few artist friends, each of whom has a particular specialty. Readers are treated to sketches and full-color spot art from each of the illustrators—Jessixa Bagley (Courage Hats) shows Bailey decked out in a regal costume, and Armand Baltazar (the Timeless series) envisions the mouse's hot air balloon—and then an exuberant, full-bleed spread that incorporates the collaborators' work. The book's conceit that some talents are binary—one's either "good" at something or not—and set in stone at an early age is debatable, but its overarching message is worthwhile: collaboration is worth seeking out because it makes the most of everyone's talents. Ages 5–8.
