One Smart Cookie: (A Graphic Novel)

by Mika Song

Overview

Silly snack-hunting squirrels Norma and Belly are back! Don't miss their latest hilarious cookie caper in the fourth comic in this award-winning and Eisner-nominated series.

If you had a fortune cookie fortune that read: “Feed this cookie to a squirrel” would you do it? Norma thinks you would! And she quickly she gets to work devising a plan with friends Belly and Little B to sneak through the MR.FORTUNE cookie factory to get their own fortunes squirreled away inside of the treats.

Follow along on another spectacular caper that goes (definitely not) exactly as planned. With high tech climbing gear (suction cups), computer hacking (lucky password guessing), and squirrels in spy suits, they might just pull this one off and get that sweet, sweet (cookie) reward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593479759
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Series:	Norma and Belly , #4
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	271,018
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	GN420L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mika Song is a Filipino and Japanese-American children’s writer and illustrator who has written several books for early readers. She grew up in Manila, Philippines and Honolulu, Hawaii. She now lives in Queens, New York where she runs a comics club at her local art store. She is the co-creator of sundayhaha.com, a weekly collection of online comics for kids.

@mikasongdraws

Editorial Reviews

"Fans will eat up this sweet treat." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-05-24
Norma, Belly, Gramps, and Little Bee are at it again!

Brown squirrels Norma and Belly are dismayed to discover that a fortune cookie factory has just been built on top of their acorn stash. As consolation, they sneak a stray plastic-wrapped cookie back to their burrow, where they marvel at the paper fortune inside the cookie. Conferring with literate squirrels Little Bee and Gramps, they learn that “people find a fortune in a cookie and believe whatever it says.” And thus, their newest food-finding caper is born: They will infiltrate the cookie factory, insert all-new fortunes that influence humans to give their cookies to squirrels, and reap the rewards! Of course, not everything goes to plan, and the group has to dodge the factory’s burned-out fortune writer and contend with cookie consumers’ disregard of the fortunes. But readers shouldn’t worry—the squirrels always manage to get their desired snacks in the end, and this is no exception. While this fourth episode involves slightly less peril than previous volumes, readers will be no less invested in the squirrels’ newest quest. Song’s charming dialogue is filled with humor and heart. Loose lines and soft watercolors in natural colors continue to provide a calmer—but no less silly—alternative to louder graphic novels for the same audience.

Fans will eat up this sweet treat. (Graphic fiction. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews