A Chicago Public Library Best BookA School Library Journal Best Book★ "Inspiring" – Kirkus, starred review★ "Delightful!" – School Library Journal, starred review★ "Thoughtful" – Horn Book Magazine, **starred reviewDoes art have to be perfect? Where do you begin? This inspiring picture book about making art doubles as an introduction to the multifaceted and diverse global hist...

★"An uproarious tale youngsters will eagerly return to."—Kirkus, starred review★ "Mack’s simple, recombinatory narration yields comedic results in this raucous work."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn this hilarious picture book readers will meet a bear, a hare, and some hair.A fuzzy brown bear and a fluffy pink hare disagree.About hair.Neither wants to go bare!Will they b...

A charming picture book about friendship and looking for the bright side: "This offering is, to borrow the rabbit's two words, good news." — The Horn Book MagazineGood news: Rabbit and Mouse are going on a picnic. Bad news: It is starting to rain. Good news: Rabbit has an umbrella. Bad news: The stormy winds blow the umbrella (and Mouse!) into a tree.So begins this clever story about two friends with very different dispositions. Using just four wor...

**A 2025 Texas Topaz Non-Fiction PickAn engaging, kid-friendly introduction to artist Marcel Duchamp and how he turned a toilet into a famous work of art.**This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be, and what could be art. From drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp's work challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amus...

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure!What do you mean they don't give trophies for playing video games? It’s only fair, isn’t it? Clueless McGee has mastered his Ninja Warz video game and he’d like a trophy. It seems like a lot of extra work to have to win the science fair to get one. . . . Yet that trophy is REALLY nice. And Clueless does have an idea for a magnetic pickle that seems like an obvious winner. So okay, he’s in. Until someone steals the ...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Timmy Failure!Clueless McGee is just your average fifth-grader: snarky, awkward, and a magnet for trouble. The only difference: he's also an amateur detective. Determined to make his absent father proud, he uses the skills he's learned playing video games to solve mysteries. Only he's no Sherlock Holmes. Or Encyclopedia Brown. Or even Scooby-Doo. When the school bully is framed for filling the orchestra teacher's tuba wit...

Curious George meets Mr. Bean in the second adorable new picture book series from author-illustrator Jeff Mack that follows the loveable Mr. Monkey on his wacky adventures.Mr. Monkey learns a trick.He can’t wait to put on a show!But first he has to find the school.What could possibly go wrong?

For every fan of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, or Timmy Failure--a laugh-out-loud book with a fun mystery to solve!Clueless McGee is confident he is on his way to becoming a famous crime solver. Surely you want his autograph . . . no? Speaking of autographs, when Clueless learns that the messy scribble on the cowboy hat sent by his father is actually the autograph of famous teen idol Junior McFiddle, everyone in school suddenly wants to be Clueless' friend. And t...

Curious George meets Mr. Bean in the third adorable picture book from author-illustrator Jeff Mack that follows the loveable Mr. Monkey on his wacky adventures.Mr. Monkey loves playing his video game.He wants to beat the ultimate level!But now he must go outside and find his stolen controller.What could possibly go wrong?

Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture bookFrog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle chapters, Frog and Fly will delight kids and leave them begging for yet another slurpy story.

This inventive tale of two mice fighting over a rock is "conceptually rich and a whole lot of fun" ( School Library Journal).Start with one rock. Add two mice. The end result? A never-ending battle! Or is it?Using only one word, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack, acclaimed author of Good News, Bad News, brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will have readers of every age reconsidering whe...

This inventive tale of two mice fighting over a rock is "conceptually rich and a whole lot of fun" ( School Library Journal).Start with one rock. Add two mice. The end result? A never-ending battle! Or is it?Using only one word, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack, acclaimed author of Good News, Bad News, brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will have readers of every age reconsidering whe...