Time to Go, Sid!
A Picture Book
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Jan 20, 2026
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- $13.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A “big kid” gets ready to go all on their own—and on their own timeline—in this hilarious and quirky picture book about a child’s growing independence and imagination, from bestselling author-illustrator Isabel Greenberg
Shall we go to the park, Sid? Ready? Let’s go!
It’s time to go, and Sid doesn’t need ANY help getting out the door. Getting dressed means highly creative outfits; eating breakfast requires elaborate contraptions; going to the bathroom is an opportunity for practicing acrobatics. And of course, Sid must pack a bag filled with all of the Important Stuff, including snacks, disguises, dragon food, a map, and several trusted assistants (i.e. stuffed animals).
Imaginatively told through a child’s-eye view and full of entertaining moments that parents will relate to, this delightful picture book by Isabel Greenberg follows a headstrong child moving through their own world at their own pace, in their “I can do it myself!” phase.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The routine requests behind getting out the door and to a park become opportunities for a youth to assert independence in this frolicsome picture book about day-to-day undertakings. When it's time to get dressed, the yellow speech bubbles that seem to represent an unseen caretaker's perspective ask, "Do you need help?" Young Sid, portrayed with pale skin, firmly declines, and digitally colored, crisp pencil and charcoal drawings show the child donning a tutu, wings, a spiky reptile tail, and, as a face mask, a pair of underpants. Further delays and fanciful interpretations of caretaker requests ensue around breakfast, teeth-brushing, and more, but a departure finally seems possible ("HURRAH! We're ready. Almost at the door. Nothing can stop us now") until Sid has yet another flight of fancy, conjuring the family's marmalade cat as a friendly, flying orange dragon. While expressing tongue-in-cheek sympathy to the plights of children and adults faced with leaving the house, Greenberg (Power Up) reflects back to readers their own brilliance around claiming free will—not by saying no to everyday asks, but by saying yes to creative possibilities. Ages 4–8.
