My Hugging Rules

by David Kirk

Overview

Please, no pinchy, prickly, swishy, swoopy or too tight hugs! An adorable but picky cat has strict rules about how her friends can hug her. But, when she needs a hug, she discovers that her very particular rules need to be tossed aside for - NEW RULES!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732686106
Publisher:	Pipweasel
Publication date:	05/14/2019
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

David Kirk grew up in the wild and boundless suburbs of central Ohio, where he learned about small creatures and art. He is the creator of Miss Spider, who appears in many well-loved children’s books and her own television series. Nova the Robot and the Biddle books are also his creations. Some of his recent books are Oh So Tiny Bunny, Oh So brave Dragon, and Truckeroo School. His latest, My Hugging Rules will arrive in 2019 . An inventor as well as an author, David started several toy companies, including Ovicular Toyworks, Hoobert Toys, David Kirk’s Fun House, and the Sunny Patch brand. His newest toy, Art Face by David Kirk is available in the app store and on Google Play. He lives in a secluded woodland with his family. They are happily surrounded by a large and well-fed menagerie of hamsters, guinea pigs, chipmunks, squirrels, groundhogs, skunks, possums, deer, foxes, and bunnies, each one as fluffy and huggable as can be.

Editorial Reviews

LITTLE MISS SPIDER

“. . . Kirk's oil paintings glow with luminescent colors and here, printed on laminated pages, they closely resemble animation cells. Not only do Miss Spider fans now have a prequel, this tale will likely convert arachnophobes to arachnophiles, at least when it comes to Miss Spider.”—Publishers Weekly

OH SO BRAVE DRAGON

“Kirk’s lustrous images perfectly capture expressions of surprise, fear, and curiosity.”—School Library Journal
“An engagingly subtle way to convey the power of friends in helping us face our fears, real or not.”—Kirkus Reviews

OH SO TINY BUNNY

“Fluorescent colors, unusual perspectives and an irresistible, blue-eyed bunny with a glowing pink nose draw readers in, but it’s the emotional flow of the text and the wildly exuberant ego exploration that make this fanciful story memorable.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

AWARDS

Miss Spider titles have won Parenting magazine Best Book of the Year,
National Parenting Publications Honor Book, and Parents' Choice Award.

From the Publisher

2019-03-03

This kitty has some rules if you want a hug…a lot of rules.

"There shall be no head hugs, no leg hugs, and no tail hugs. / Cheek hugs are frowned upon." The fluffy white cat with big, green eyes doesn't like hugs from stinky persons (the illustration reveals a skunk) or "if you are on the potty" or "if I am on the potty!" Hugs from those with full diapers are verboten, as well as from those with no diaper. No hugs from scaly persons, bears, or overzealous boa constrictors. But with all these rules…when the kitty needs a hug, no one can give one. So this persnickety cat makes some revisions to the rules. Basically, the cat will now accept hugs from nearly everyone previously ruled out. Nostrils pinched shut will take care of "stinky hugs," and "pinchy hugs" will be OK so long as they are gentle. Suddenly everyone wants to offer a hug. And so forth. Bestselling author/illustrator Kirk's first from his boutique publishing house is not auspicious. The protagonist's expression is almost terrifyingly uber-cute, with exaggeratedly wide eyes and a blood-red smile, and its imperiousness makes it rather unlikable. While its guidelines that "hugs are to be given gently [and] respectfully" are welcome, the long catalog of unacceptable hugs and then newly permissible ones feels repetitious rather than enjoyably silly.

Miss Spider and Nova fans will find themselves disappointed. (Picture book. 2-8)

Kirkus Reviews