PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
<b>Mac Barnett</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of over twenty books for children, including <i>Count the Monkeys</i>, <i> </i>illustrated by Kevin Cornell; <i>Chloe and the Lion</i>, illustrated by Adam Rex; and<i> Extra Yarn </i>and <i>Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, </i>both illustrated by Jon Klassen, and both winners of a Caldecott Honor and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award.<i> </i>He also writes the Terrible Two series with Jory John. Mac lives in Berkeley, California. Visit him at macbarnett.com. <b>Adam Rex</b> is the<i> </i><i>New York Times</i> best-selling author and illustrator of <i>Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich.</i> His other books include <i>The True Meaning of Smekday</i>, which was made into the animated hit movie <i>Home</i>;<i> Moonday</i>; <i>Fat Vampire; </i>and <i>Cold Cereal. </i>He also illustrated the Brixton Brothers series, <i>Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem, </i>and <i>Chloe and the Lion, </i> all by Mac Barnett, and <i>Chu's Day </i>by Neil Gaiman. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. Visit him at adamrex.com or follow him on Twitter @MrAdamRex<i>.</i>
"""Barnett and Rex, no strangers to metafiction, have outdone themselves in terms of tongue-in-cheekiness... Young audience members will love every over-the-top moment.""--The Horn Book ""From the mixed-media cover art to the closing tiger-print endpapers, Barnett and Rex's surreal digressions and visual humor ensure that the tale will not follow a straightforward course. (At one point, illiterate pirates hijack the story for a single spread before vamoosing because they don't read.).... The joke density in a volume that includes an arm-wrestling tiger and Ben Franklin scaling Philadelphia's city hall like King Kong will keep many readers flipping the pages.... This quirky exercise in self-reflexiveness offers a nugget of truth about the laborious process of producing books. Fans of these wacky creators will eat it up.""--School Library Journal ""Rex's mixed-media illustrations keep up with the text and pack in plenty of chuckles.""--Kirkus Reviews"
