Every Monday Mabel: (Caldecott Honor)

Description: Every Monday Mabel takes her breakfast outside and waits for her favorite part of the week: the garbage truck.

Brief description: Jashar Awan is an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. Growing up outside of Washington, DC, Jashar loved drawing and reading. In fact, he still does. For many years, he drew illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. Since being named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start with his debut picture book What a Lucky Day! in 2020, his subsequent books have garnered starred reviews and spots on state reading lists and best-of lists from the New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Good Housekeeping, NPR, and more. He is the creator of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Towed by Toad and the Caldecott Honor book Every Monday Mabel. He lives in Ohio with his wife and their son, who loves drawing and reading, too. Visit him at JasharAwan.com.

Review Quotes: ★ "Confidently illustrated and presented without didacticism, Mabel's story is an arm-pumping, truck-horn toot to each person reveling in their own 'garbage.'" --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW