Pub Date: July 20, 2021
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2020022078
Lexile Code: 0700
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.70" L x 11.20" W ( 1.30 lbs) 48 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Monsters | Humorous Stories | Animals | Penguins | Zoos | Holidays and Celebrations | Halloween
Description: A young vampire trades places with a penguin at the zoo for a day of mischief and fun.
Brief description: Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, illustrator, and art director of children's books. She was happily paired with Jean Reidy for both Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019, and Sylvie. She is also the author-illustrator of Stumpkin, Vampenguin, Dalmartian: A Mars Rover's Story, Our Pool, and A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals. Lucy has swum in creeks, streams, gorges, rivers, swimming holes, pools (above- and in-ground), lakes (both Great and Finger), decorative fountains, and oceans. Her very favorite place to swim, however, is at her community pool in Brooklyn with her sons and her neighbors.
Review Quotes: Cummins's loose lines and fresh palette emphasize the classic cartoon-esque concept's hilarity, and young readers will take great joy in noticing the entities hiding in plain sight--as well as the quiet case of mistaken identity.--Publishers Weekly, starred review