Huggy the Python Hugs Too Hard (Wee Beasties #1)

by Ame Dyckman, Alex G Griffiths (Illustrator)

Overview

Help little ones learn how to give a BIG gentle hug with this first story in the brand-new Wee Beasties series from New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman.

Huggy the Python loves to hug. The only problem is, he hugs WAY too hard.

WAIT! Can you show Huggy how to give a gentle hug?

Wee Beasties is a new board book series from New York Times bestselling author, Ame Dyckman, featuring silly animals doing the things they love just a little TOO much. In this first book about Huggy the Python and all the things he loves, little ones will learn how to give a big gentle hug.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534410800
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Series:	Wee Beasties , #1
Pages:	22
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Ame Dyckman is the author of many books for children, including How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide, the New York Times bestselling Wolfie the Bunny, and the Bat, Cat & Rat series, the second book of which—Vacation—won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Ame lives with her family in central New Jersey. Visit her at AmeDyckman.com.

Alex G Griffiths is a children’s book illustrator from London, UK. The majority of his work is done by hand, using a combination of pen and ink line work and brush textures in a messy way to create an unusual illustration style. He now lives in Canada with his wife and two children.

Editorial Reviews

2018-05-23
Readers teach Huggy the Python how to be gentle.True to his name, this green, top-hat-wearing, scarf-sporting snake "LOVES to hug the things he loves." However, disaster ensues when he hugs a balloon and then an oversized bowl of ice cream. "OOPS! You hugged too hard, Huggy." The unseen narrator stops the action before Huggy can do any damage to a "fuzzy little dog." Readers are instructed to give the impossibly cute, huge-eyed little pooch a model, "GENTLE" hug, and the dog's happy dance combines with exuberant confetti to underscore that it "was a GREAT gentle hug!" Huggy learns by this example and follows suit (though his enthusiastic, simultaneous embrace of a tube of toothpaste makes it clear just what the self-control costs him). Dyckman's jaunty, conversational narration and Griffiths' fluid and charming cartoons in cheery colors against white backgrounds are perfectly matched. Roary the Lion Roars Too Loud publishes simultaneously.Huggy is an adorable character, no mean feat for a python; here's hoping more of these tender life lessons in the Wee Beasties series are on the way. (Board book. 2-3)

Kirkus Reviews