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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
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EVERYTHING WILL BE OK

Anna Dewdney Judy Schachner

The bestselling creators of Llama Llama and Skippyjon Jones bring warmth and humor to a story with a comforting message we could all use when times are tough: everything will be okay.
Nothing is going right for little Bunny today.
His sandwich has PB&J instead of cheese.
He's lost his kite.
Ow! And he's stubbed his toe!
But while some days can feel more sad than happy, there's always a bright spot on the horizon. Anna Dewdney and Judy Schachner perfectly blend rhyme, humor, and comfort to show readers the way out of a tough spot--no matter if it's big or small.

Anna Dewdney passed away in September 2016, at the age of fifty, from cancer. A teacher, mother, and enthusiastic proponent of reading aloud to children, she continually honed her skills as an artist and writer and published her first Llama Llama book in 2005. Her passion for creating extended to home and garden, and she lovingly restored an eighteenth century farmhouse in southern Vermont. She wrote, painted, gardened, and lived there with her partner, Reed, her two daughters, two wirehaired pointing griffons, and one bulldog. Anna was a warm-hearted, wonderful, wise soul who will be forever missed, but whose spirit lives on in her books.

Best known for her Skippyjon Jones series, Judy Schachner has illustrated many of her own stories, including the much-loved The Grannyman and its companion book, Bits & Pieces. She has also illustrated stories by others, including I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson and How the Cat Swallowed Thunder by Lloyd Alexander. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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Published 2022-02-15 by Viking Books for Young Readers

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French: Circonflexe ; Greek: Psichogios

Fans of the Llama, Llama series will find the late Dewdney's characteristic rhymes on display in this book about keeping perspective on life's challenges. Whether it's a stubbed toe, a lost kite, or a bad dream, reiterative, gently upbeat prose reassures readers that "everything will be OK" and prompts them to take comfort in family and friends. "Days are happy./ Days are sad.// Hold your mommy./ Hold your dad.// Whatever happens,/ love will stay.// Hold the ones you love today./ Everything will be OK." Skippyjon Jones series creator Schachner employs a quilt-like range of colors and techniques - watercolor, acrylic, gouache, collage - in homey illustrations that conceptualize the story of a fluffy brown bunny navigating daily ups and downs with a small blue feline, making for a sympathetic water-under-the-bridge tale.