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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsTwo sisters spend a cozy day at home making messes. Through them all, they share many moments of joy and creativity.From delicious meals and cozy forts to impromptu band performances and elegant tea parties, these siblings discover that a mess can lead to many special moments. Illustrating both the highs and lows of the day, this book welcomes creative expression and the invaluable lessons and memories that arise from playful exploration.With bouncy and rhyming language, What Can a Mess Make? inspires us to embrace imagination and make some messes ourselves. Bee Johnson's warm illustrations capture the essence of play, inviting readers to linger in the...

Amid the comic relief, there is profound vulnerability and anxiety playing out in weird and wild scenarios ... I Must Be Dreaming is your ticket to the dreamland of a genius. Go willingly.” 

“Known for her twisty steampunk historical fantasy, Pulley turns to science fiction set a few generations from now to explore topics of political interest today: climate change, immigration, gender, political corruption … The worldbuilding is whimsical rather than rigorous, more effective at (and perhaps intended for) contemplating extremes of the present than at predicting the future. Full of charming details and gender-bending gallantry, this imaginative thriller is a pleasure to read.”

Croft, herself an acclaimed literary translator (of Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, among others) both celebrates and lampoons translation communities, which being both altruistic and parasitic, resemble the complex dynamics of forest biomes ... Editorial footnotes, provided by the narrator’s own supposed translator, are delightfully wry. But beneath the satire and the metafiction lie a lament for our all-too-real ongoing ecocide and a desperate appeal that humans might emulate fungi and find sustenance within the destruction.” —Booklist, starred review  

“One of the most absorbing books I’ve read this year is THAT LIBRARIAN, a school librarian’s account of being targeted by right-wing extremists in Louisiana for speaking in defense of diverse books.”

“The worldbuilding is extraordinary and the plot is utterly gripping. Readers are sure to be sucked in.”  

—Publishers Weekly, starred review