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YOU BROKE IT!

Liana Finck

From acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck comes a clever and validating twist on parent-child dynamics.
This collection of classic parental nags are cleverly betrayed by the situations shown, in which it's made clear that the child knows better. Each scenario is worthy of a giggle, adding a lightheartedness to the inevitable dynamics between parents and children. Cartoonist Liana Finck has created a catharsis for her own childhood memories of knowing better than authority figures, and in doing so, validates young readers with the respect and understanding they deserve.

Liana Finck is the author of Let There Be Light, Passing for Human, and Excuse Me, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay. She has a wide and dedicated fan base, with over 600k followers on Instagram alone.
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Published 2024-01-23 by Rise x Penguin Workshop

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Published 2024-01-23 by Rise x Penguin Workshop

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...This brief, simple story wastes no words, instead delivering a wallop of humor and emotion that will both entertain and foster empathy in adults inclined to punish youngsters for simply following their natural inclinations... A hilarious and heartwarming exposé of adults' often ridiculous expectations for children.

...fresh... With an eloquent, spindly ink line and spots of pastel color, the creator portrays a wide range of natural-world entities engaging in all-too-familiar moments of meeting a child's exuberance with classically knee-jerk, parental-style admonitions... It's easy to imagine that any human adult reading along will be inspired to do likewise.

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[You Broke It!] will make readers laugh out loud...[A] book that parents and children are likely to relish and remember...Both young and old will enjoy poking fun at popular admonishments, and each will perhaps leave with renewed understanding about the loving aspect of such conflicts.

Italian: Salani ; Spanish: PRH Spain ; Kazakh: East Publishing ; Japanese: NHK

In a compilation of humorous set pieces that turn adult instruction on its head, New Yorker cartoonist Finck hilariously pokes fun at how parents might sound to children in a playful picture book that is a fun read across age ranges. This comical tale demonstrates how kids might perceive out-of-touch and sometimes hypocritical authority figures. Common nags and absurdist reminders from parental figures are juxtaposed with the artist's trademark sketches that deliver the humor: a big fish tells its kid to "sit still." An adult worm tells a little worm to "stop squirming." An adult tornado tells the child tornado, "You're making a mess." Kids are seen and validated for being at the receiving end of sometimes ridiculous demands from their adults; adults are comically reminded to let kids be kids.

Liana Finck takes a slew of familiar parent-child encounters and cleverly places them in a new context.