Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4847-3162-8
Higgins’s premise couldn’t be simpler: Rupert the mouse sets out to create a wordless picture book (“They’re very artistic”), but his talkative sidekicks, Thistle and Nibbs, have more than a little trouble with the concept of wordlessness. “This...
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Ryan T. Higgins and Mo Willems. Hyperion, $9.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-368-04573-5
In this spry addition to Willems’s ongoing series, Elephant and Piggie read a book about deceptively fierce Tiger, who is not afraid of anything—except worms. After Tiger explains his aversion to the critters (they’re slimy, they “like to wiggle,”...
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Ryan Higgins. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3732-7
Displaying a judicious sense of comedy and drama, Higgins (Twaddleton’s Cheese) has crafted a lovely (and hirsute) fable about friendship and sacrifice. Wilfred is the quintessential lonely monster, a “humongous and hairy” creature who comes upon a...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4847-3088-1
Bruce is a grumpy bear. He’s also a thieving and unscrupulous bear, and he likes to take eggs from nests (“He cooked them into fancy recipes he found on the internet”). But four eggs he grabs from a goose don’t cook. They hatch. The four goslings...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4847-4362-1
Some bears can’t catch a break: having unwillingly adopted four goslings in 2015’s Mother Goose, Bruce finds that three enterprising mice have converted his home into a hotel in this slapstick sequel. Higgins’s caricatured artwork delights in the...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-368-00355-1
Children do get eaten in this new story by Higgins (Mother Bruce), but only temporarily. Consumed by a young, extremely cute T. rex named Penelope, they emerge unharmed (although goopy and justifiably annoyed) after Penelope’s teacher tells her...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-148478290-3
Bruce, a curmudgeonly blue bear, is no stranger to cases of mistaken identity, and he’d just as soon skip the holiday (“Bruce did not like fun./ Bruce did not like cheer.”). But being a “mother” to a gaggle of geese and three mice—all bursting with...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-368-05959-6
In this companion to We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, Penelope the T. rex takes on the schoolwide talent show. As the only dinosaur among her human peers, Penelope is sometimes seen as more behemoth reptile than individual, something that doesn’t keep...
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Ryan T. Higgins. Disney Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-368-02623-9
This astute and endearing story of displacement anxiety starts with an unusual dyad: Norman, a wide-eyed porcupine, and Mildred, a tree. As the story alternates between short narration and speech balloons filled with Norman’s heart-on-his-sleeve...
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