Cornbread & Poppy
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Publisher Description
An IndieBound Bestseller • An Amazon Best Book of the Year • A 2022 Kirkus Best Children's Book
★ "A rewarding choice for young readers."—Booklist, starred review
★"Cornbread and Poppy are endearing characters, poised to join the ranks of other memorable early reader sets of best friends old and new, including James Marshall's George and Martha."—Bookpage, starred review
★ "Delightful."—Kirkus, starred review
Caldecott medalist Matthew Cordell debuts his first early reader series about two best friends who are as different from each other as can be.
Cornbread LOVES planning. Poppy does not. Cornbread ADORES preparing. Poppy does not. Cornbread IS ready for winter. Poppy...is not. But Cornbread and Poppy are the best of friends, so when Poppy is left without any food for the long winter, Cornbread volunteers to help her out. Their search leads them up, up, up Holler Mountain, where these mice might find a new friend...and an old one. Celebrating both partnership and the value of what makes us individuals, young readers will find this classic odd-couple irresistible as they encounter relatable issues with humor and heart.
Publishing simultaneously in hardcover and paperback.
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Three generously illustrated chapters give Caldecott Medalist Cordell plenty of space to develop the friendship of two mouse friends who react differently to winter's approach, and he wastes none of it. Conscientious Cornbread, who prepares diligently for cold and lack, wears plaid overalls and a worker's cap, while Poppy, who has spent the foraging season engaging in adventures, sports coveralls and a pink kerchief. When it turns out that Poppy has collected nothing and the food is long gone, Cornbread—no less fond of his pal for her lack of planning—offers to help her find food, and even promises to search with her on Holler Mountain, a forbidding wilderness with slippery rocks and owls that eat mice (another mouse who traversed it "was never seen or heard from since"). Cordell's loose, Steig-like ink line makes emotions easy to read as the duo's interplay builds, Poppy marching blissfully along and Cornbread furrowing his brow. Their well-built adventure, the story's back half, offers exertion, discouragement, and a wonderfully improbable change of fortune, with just enough suspense to keep readers engaged. Ages 4–8.
