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This charming picture book from author-illustrator Anya Glazer follows two sisters in a celebration?and adorable demonstration?of how sisterhood and encouraged question asking can lead to the most surprising journeys. A perfect, hilarious read for families with soon-to-be new siblings! Bea is curious about EVERYTHING.
Does peanut butter count as a vegetable?
What are belly buttons for?
How do toasters work? Lucky for her, big sister Ada always has an answer ready! (Toasters work by magic.)
But as Bea's questions get harder, Ada takes to inventing some answers. And when one of her responses takes them into a forest full of unknowns...the way through becomes much less clear. How will Ada and Bea find their way back home?
About the author
Anya Glazer is a children’s book author and illustrator based in London. She studied history and French at Oxford University before deciding to pursue her original career plan (conceived age six) of drawing pictures and telling stories. In 2015 she graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with an MA in children’s book illustration. Anya loves working in pencil, the basis for most of her illustrations. She is the author-illustrator of Thesaurus Has a Secret.
Anya Glazer is a children’s book author and illustrator based in London. She studied history and French at Oxford University before deciding to pursue her original career plan (conceived age six) of drawing pictures and telling stories. In 2015 she graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with an MA in children’s book illustration. Anya loves working in pencil, the basis for most of her illustrations. She is the author-illustrator of Thesaurus Has a Secret.
Summary
This charming picture book from author-illustrator Anya Glazer follows two sisters in a celebration—and adorable demonstration—of how sisterhood and encouraged question asking can lead to the most surprising journeys. A perfect, hilarious read for families with soon-to-be new siblings!
Bea is curious about EVERYTHING.
Does peanut butter count as a vegetable?
What are belly buttons for?
How do toasters work?
Lucky for her, big sister Ada always has an answer ready! (Toasters work by magic.)
But as Bea’s questions get harder, Ada takes to inventing some answers. And when one of her responses takes them into a forest full of unknowns…the way through becomes much less clear. How will Ada and Bea find their way back home?
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Praise for Thesaurus Has a Secret: “Salutary messages about the pleasures of words and reading (and reading aloud), the art is festooned with appropriate or playfully altered classics.”
