Cookie Time
by Jessie Sima (Author) Jessie Sima (Illustrator)
From the New York Times bestselling creator of Not Quite Narwhal comes a tasty picture book about two kids who get into time travel shenanigans while trying to skip waiting for cookies to bake!
Kat and Ari love cookie time, their special tradition with Grandpa and his dog, Biscuit. It's always fun and oh, so delicious! But waiting for the cookies to be ready is so hard. What better way to skip to the good part than a time machine?
The two plan to jump a little into the future, to when the cookies are out of the oven, but they overshoot and go way too far ahead! And when Kat and Ari try to return, they still can't get the timing right. They have fun meeting prehistoric dinosaurs, futuristic robots, and even past versions of themselves...but just wish they could get back to Grandpa. Could they have been wrong about the best part of cookie time?
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Publishers Weekly
Kat and Ari cherish every moment spent making cookies with their grandfather, but once Grandpa sets the baking timer, the "difficult" part--waiting--begins. So the kids fashion a cardboard box into a time machine and set its dial. It's meant "to take them into the future, to just after the cookies were finished baking. That way, they would never have to wait," writes Sima (Perfectly Pegasus). But time travel proves to be far from an exact science. In their quest to savor freshly baked cookies at the perfect moment, depicted in digital renderings as a journey through a series of graduated pentagons, Kat and Ari are transported back to their very first cookie-baking session with Grandpa as well as into a future where cookies materialize instantly, devoid of any human touch. The experiences remind them how fortunate they are to have the present moment, even one that requires waiting. Time may indeed be a social construct, this moving work hints, but it links us most assuredly to those we hold dear. Characters are portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. Ages 4-8. Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary. (Sept.)
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Kirkus
A read worth waiting for.
Review quotes
"A warm intergenerational story about cherishing the present moment and realizing what's important."—-Horn Book "September/October Issue"
"Time may indeed be a social construct, this moving work hints, but it links us most assuredly to those we hold dear."—-Publishers Weekly "6/3/2024"
"A read worth waiting for."—-Kirkus Reviews "7/1/24"
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
JUV064000 - Juvenile Fiction | Time Travel
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