BroomMates: A Brewing Boundary Battle

by Lynne Marie, Nico Ecenarro (Illustrator)

Overview

Multi-Award-Winner 2025 Children's Book Council Favorites Award- Kid's Favorite, Teacher's Favorite, and Librarian's Favorite.

2025 Anna Dewdney Best Read Aloud- Honor Book

2025 Northern Lights Book Award- Holiday Category

"Marie and Reeves Sturgis succeed in showing the particular magic that is compromise."- Publisher's Weekly

A sibling rivalry with a Halloween twist to be enjoyed all year long!

There's room for improvement when witchy sisters Mathilda and Malin share a broom, and a room! One's bright and airy, the other dark and scary! Each sister knows exactly how they should decorate. Unfortunately, their disagreement ends in disaster and a broken broom. Will they ever find a way to meet in the middle?

Kids will enjoy the silly antics that unfold in this rhyming witchy sibling rivalry, by award-winning authors Lynne Marie and Brenda Reeves Sturgis.

Fresh and modern cartoon-styled illustrations will appeal to young fans of Nickelodeon's The Loud House.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781956378276
Publisher:	The Little Press
Publication date:	09/03/2024
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Nico Ecenarro is an illustrator from Rhode Island. He enjoys drawing stories of adventurous kids being their curious selves, from the quiet or odd moments to the world-saving kind. Nico craves drawing; creating stories and developing characters fuels him. He often illustrates in a limited color palette focusing on the design and gesture of his characters. Broommates: A Brewing Boundary Battle, is Nico’s picture book debut. You can learn more about Nico at www.nicoecenarro.com

Editorial Reviews

06/17/2024

Two “witchy mismatched sisters” learn to tolerate each other’s differences in this rhyming tale that pits glitter against gloom. Tasked with sharing “broom and room,” the pale-skinned siblings struggle to accept each other’s tastes: “One liked colors, one liked black, they never could agree.// Matilda gathered songbirds, and Malin dead debris.” After a magic-amplified dispute about the best bedroom decor wreaks havoc on their mutual space and belongings, their differing desires meet, at last, in the middle. Electric hues give a punk vibe to Ecenarro’s drawings of the siblings facing off and then coming together, while bits of pop culture tucked throughout (a poster of Taylor Swift look-alike “T. Sweep”) make the quarrelsome sisters feel contemporary. Though the sibs seem to reach consensus more by mistake than through deliberate effort, Marie and Reeves Sturgis succeed in showing the particular magic that is compromise. A character-drawing tutorial concludes. Ages 4–8. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Electric hues give a punk vibe to Ecenarro’s drawings of the siblings facing off and then coming together, while bits of pop culture tucked throughout (a poster of Taylor Swift look-alike “T. Sweep”) make the quarrelsome sisters feel contemporary...Marie and Reeves Sturgis succeed in showing the particular magic that is compromise."
— Publisher's Weekly

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