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Sloppy Wants a Hug
By Sean Julian
Published by NorthSouth Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
2018 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Sloppy the tree dragon wants a hug, but Dewdrop the sprite isn’t going to give him one, for a very good reason.
Sloppy the tree dragon wants a hug, but Dewdrop the sprite isn’t going to give him one, for a very good reason.
About The Author
Sean Julian enjoyed art from an early age, focusing on potato printmaking and creating plasticine dinosaurs. He now focuses his talents on children’s book illustrations, where he can follow his passion to draw hairy gorillas, bears, and dinosaurs. His pictures delight and entertain. He lives in Bristol, England.
Product Details
- Publisher: NorthSouth Books (February 7, 2017)
- Length: 32 pages
- ISBN13: 9780735842731
- Ages: 4 - 8
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Raves and Reviews
Short, simple, sweet—and more than likely to spur some similarly slobbery affection between parent and child.
– Kirkus Reviews
Pacing is everything here as audiences are lulled into sympathy with the hugless dragon until the very last page. Mournful Sloppy, with his eggplant-shaped snout, barely-there mouth, and scales that look like tidy, distinct green leaves, initially doesn’t seem to have earned his name, looking more floppy than sloppy as his sadness deepens. Dewdrop is an effective and expressive targeted snubber, turning up her pert little nose and angling her eyebrows at Sloppy as he tries to get a hug and smiling sweetly at the other critters.
– The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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