Pumpkin Baby!
A Hazy Dell Flap Book
Elias Barks, illustrated by Meg Hunt
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- 12 full-color pages featuring 6 flaps
- Each spread features an interactive flap concealing a fun, unexpected and friendly character or hidden aspect for children to discover at their own pace
- Alongside Yeti Baby! continues the Hazy Dell Flap Book series that began with Alien Baby! and Bigfoot Baby!
- Pumpkin Baby is a nongendered character for every child to identify with (there are no gendered pronouns in the text)
- Indie and mass merch appeal: While delivering a quirky, imaginative aesthetic that appeals to the indie bookstore market, these flap books are concurrently primed for the mass merch market with a competitive price point, easy-to-grasp concept, and sturdy interactive flaps.
- The night-long adventure models the excitement and joy of a young child starting to gain agency in a world full of wonder, developing the social confidence to interact with others outside of their family
- Appeals to parents who are enthusiastic about cryptids, monsters and Halloween but want to offer their very young children an introduction to these creatures in a nonthreatening, non-scary way
- Reimagines the monster fun of the Hazy Dell Press Monster Series (ages 1-7) for a younger audience (0-4)
Contributor Bio
Author Elias Barks lives with his cats, Agnes and Magnus, beneath the gray skies of Astoria, Oregon. He is the author of four Hazy Dell Flap Books.
Meg Hunt is a celebrated and award-winning artist living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to illustrating four Hazy Dell Flap Books, Meg has illustrated picture books for Chronicle, Bloomsbury, and Hazy Dell Press. Meg has won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators and has had her illustrations featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Junior Scholastic Magazine.
