Someday, Maybe

by Diana Murray, Jessica Gibson (Illustrator)

Overview

Someday, Maybe is an inventive and inspiring picture book that imagines the exciting jobs, discoveries, and innovations that children dream of for their futures.

With self-driving cars and commercial launches to space, the future has arrived! And so have the jobs of the future, from intergalactic rock bands with riffing robots to doctors with X-ray glasses.

Children have always dreamed of what they will grow up to become, and with Someday, Maybe the possibilities are whole lot more out of this world. Join a group of intrepid young innovators while they dream about where the future will take them in this imaginative picture book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250782755
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	03/14/2023
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	1,088,822
Product dimensions:	8.45(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Diana Murray grew up in New York City and still lives nearby with her husband and two daughters. Some of Diana’s picture books include Doris the Bookasaurus, Five Fuzzy Chicks, Grimelda: The Very Messy Witch, Ned the Knitting Pirate, and City Shapes. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Highlights, High Five, and Spider.

Jessica Gibson is an illustrator from Detroit who has loved drawing since she was a little girl. A love for animals, traveling, and reading has always inspired her and led to a career illustrating children’s books. Jessica illustrates picture books, spot pieces, packaging design, and surface patterns, all of which she hopes capture her sense of fun. Find Jessica on Instagram and Twitter at @jessiedrawz and online at jessicamgibson.com.

Editorial Reviews

2022-11-29
Dream on, young inventors! There’s lots of work in your future.

Upbeat, rhyming verse helps readers explore the imaginations and dreams of several young inventors as they create plans for flying cars, self-cleaning houses, and alternate food sources (for instance, earthworms). Perhaps they will sing with a robotic backup band that they’ve built and programmed, use “X-ray specs / to scan for broken bones,” or deliver packages with hypersonic drones. Maybe space will call and they will work in the first town on the moon, study lunar mold in a lab and find the cure for the common cold, or send rovers to Mars and beyond. Someday, they might create a holographic crew to explore the “volcanoes of / a strange, uncharted land.” But inventing and exploring can leave young dreamers a bit homesick, and that’s how families can help—with tight hugs and praise that encourage more dreaming of what might be. Detailed illustrations, often in rich jewel tones, show diverse young inventors. A tan-skinned child uses a wheelchair. The children’s families are diverse as well, with a one-parent family and what appears to be a same-sex family represented. Backmatter explains that many of the inventions mentioned already exist, though some aren’t quite ready to be used by the public. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Will spur children to “keep on dreaming… / of what, someday, may be.” (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews