Jon Agee

Sep 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jon Agee

There's a moment in early childhood when pure, wide-eyed wonder turns into a new kind of curiosity. One day a 3-year-old is perfectly content knowing that the sky is blue, and then all of a sudden they desperately need to know why. Case in point: Marcelo, the inquisitive hero of Ruth Rocha's MARCELO, MARTELLO, MARSHMALLOW (Tapioca Stories, 40 pp., $19.95, ages 8 to 12), translated from the Portuguese by Tal Goldfajn.

Apr 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jon Agee

What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves. Children's books have long featured pint-size heroes overcoming fierce antagonists: ogres, witches and big bad wolves.

Mar 9, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jon Agee |Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington

Jon Agee. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-53137-2In this comic dialogue from Agee (Otto: A Palindrama), a child plotting to stay outside “all day long” invites a parent to engage in pretend play—as a tree. In response to young Madeleine’s inducement to “pretend your arms are branches... and then stand in one place. Like this,” Dad obediently spreads his arms wide, “but only for a minute.” A page turn later, Agee’s signature illustrations show a small gray owl landing on Dad’s shoulder.