The Giant Orange What-the-What?!

A girl gains new perspective, skills, and friends while dealing with an unexpected challenge in this witty parable offering reassurance that while disruptions big and small are part of life, so is learning to work through them and growing in the process. For fans of What Do You Do with a Problem? and The Magical Yet.
When an unanticipated what-the-what?! disrupts your day, it may knock you off track.
It’s a quandary, a pickle, and an obstacle, all rolled up in one.
But with a plan, a push, some moving, and some doing, you can always bounce back!
Find inspiration in debut author-illustrator Nicole Michels’s sage and sprightly tale of triumphing over life’s inevitable curveballs with grit, flexibility, and the help of friends old and new. 

About the author

Cofounder of a boutique graphic design studio, Nicole Michels is a graphic designer with a love of picture books. Her first picture book illustrations appeared in Giraffe and Jackal Are Friends (Again), by Mary Mackenzie and Lisa Robinson. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Cofounder of a boutique graphic design studio, Nicole Michels is a graphic designer with a love of picture books. Her first picture book illustrations appeared in Giraffe and Jackal Are Friends (Again), by Mary Mackenzie and Lisa Robinson. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Michels
• Assisted by: Nicole Michels (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.04.2026
• EAN: 9780063436688
• ISBN: 978-0-06-343668-8
• No. of pages: 40
• Weight: 646 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / General, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / New Experience