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HI!
I hope your enjoying my little comic strip. I'm really enjoying making it.
Oh look I've got some book recommendations here, a couple of surefire picture book HITS I've enjoyed in the last few weeks... (a reminder, you can always use my bookshop link to buy any book you want and I get a cut.
This weeks Rec's:
I love this, it's beautiful and adorable. Sure to delight youngsters who are excited to learn how to do big kid stuff.
Kinda gonna let the pictures do the talking with this.
Seriously, this is such a good one. It's very fun and endearing and there is a clever surprise at the end. Perfect, perfect, perfect. My fave picture book of 2026 SO FAR.
Just Because by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault
So sweet and beautiful. A little girl refuses to let her dad leave her bedroom by asking existential questions. Very authentic and feels like a slightly less surreal "if you're afraid of the dark remember the night rainbow"
This is a board book and I haven't gotten a chance to hold it in my hands yet but I'm sure it's stunning. Working with board books might be the thing I miss the most from my old job. There's just something about them physically that is so satisfying. I love them.
Meanwhile:
I'm reading a mystery and it's incredible.
This has been out for a while and Tana French's new book is coming soon so I am trying to read more of her stuff, I previously read her first mystery "In The Woods" and enjoyed it a lot, but this one is soooooooooo incredible. I'm not done but according to Sara, I have no idea where it's gonna go and it's gonna be nuts.
Tana French is just such a great writer and the dreary Irish settings are perfect for me, specifically. I'm such a sucker for grey unpleasant places in my fiction, I wonder why?!
If you haven't read Tana French I suggest you try her out. If you are excited about her new book, coming out at the end of March, you should preorder it here: https://bookshop.org/a/116476/9780593493465
That's it!
Thanks so much.