Homesick

Description: School's First Day of School meets The Little House in this innovative and heartfelt take on a child's first time sleeping away from home.

Poppy can't wait to sleep over at G-Pa and Mimi's house for the first time ever. She'll bake bread and gather pinecones and read all the books on their shelves.

But Home? Home feels sick with missing her! Everything is hushed and empty without Poppy. Can Home find distractions to occupy the time until she comes back? And with all the fun she's having, will Poppy start to miss Home, too?

Seasoned children's book creators Liz Garton Scanlon, Audrey Vernick, and Daniel Miyares bring threefold brilliance to Homesick, an unforgettable flip on the script of a timeless childhood milestone. Young readers with mixed feelings about being away from home with find soothing levity on each page.

Review Quotes: Cozy and relatable--Home is definitely where the heart is.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

With grace and conviction, this empathic split narrative from Vernick and Garton Scanlon (coauthors of The Family Tree) and illustrator Miyares (Nell Plants a Tree) takes a feeling children carry in their bones--that a beloved object misses them when they're away--and extends it to an entire building. . . . [A]n inventive, emotionally attuned meditation on attachment.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Miyares's artwork perfectly pairs with this story. The black-and-white drawings overlaid with colors to match the mood of the page help young readers effectively visualize the text's emotions. . . . A first-choice picture book for any library.
--School Library Journal