The Wise Pickle
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年6月23日
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- ¥1,900
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- 予約注文
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- ¥1,900
発行者による作品情報
A hilariously absurd and philosophical picture book for 3-to-7-year-olds about a pickle slowly withering in the sun, sharing its hard-earned wisdom with the local animal population and preparing to be eaten by a dog (its preferred way to go). For fans of I Want My Hat Back and The Skunk.
A pickle arrives out of nowhere.
"I have lived a lot of life," it says.
As the pickle slowly withers in the hot sun, the local animals ask it questions. Questions like "Do you ever get bored?" and "Are you hungry?" and "Why are we here?"
The pickle has all the answers.
Except one: what happens next?
A truly weird and wonderful book, The Wise Pickle will charm readers big and small with its combination of subtle humor, pathos and ridiculousness, all perfectly captured in Sabina Hahn's delightful illustrations.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With a briny wit, Howden (The Tunnel) and Hahn (I Am a Dragon!) offer up a sly parable suggesting that radical acceptance can be goofy, profound, and green. When a pickle drops from the sky onto a sidewalk outside a dry cleaner, local wildlife—a rat, a bird, a chipmunk, a mouse, an earthworm—gather around it with earnest curiosity. After it begins offering existential observations about its life, they proffer a pillow and ask big questions: "Do you ever get bored?" "Why are we here?" As the pickle shrivels in the sun, its answers prove comically gnomic ("Purposes can change"). It draws its philosophy from experiential knowledge: sprouting as a seed, floating in an environment "like the sea, but with more garlic," then being "served beside a hot dog to a person... who hated pickles." Against what might otherwise feel like heady fare, minimalist pencil and watercolor vignettes give the world a humorous calm—the animals are sweetly attentive, and the pickle's wide-set googly eyes radiate a disarming serenity. As the wind-down turns into a smartly plotted loop, chaotic comedy lands the ending somewhere between ridiculousness and enlightenment. Full of tangy absurdity, it's a picture book fit to be relished. Ages 4–8.
