Marla Frazee
Is Mommy?
What is YOUR mommy like? Six colorful kids are happy to tell you what their mommy is like!
Victoria Chang | 1-4814-0292-7 | Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster
Awards
- Starred Review, School Library Journal
- Fall 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List—“Inspired Recommendations for Kids from Indie Booksellers”
- A New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2015
Reviews
School Library Journal ★
“Toddlers will relish the simple, headstrong text in this quirky book.”
New York Times
“Is Mommy? lobs an attack on perfectionism” and “reminds a reader that children love well and without reservation.”
Daniel Handler
“Is Mommy? is as charming, wicked, loving and delightfully askew as any mother worth hanging out with.”
Jennifer Garner
“Kids and their bedraggled mothers will love snuggling up and laughing at the never enough, messy, imperfectly perfect job of mommy-hood. I just love this book.”
Travis Jonker, 100 Scope Notes, SLJ Blog
“Somewhere, Maurice Sendak is smiling.”
Kirkus
“A funny and deceptively simple meditation on unconditional filial love.”
Boston Globe
“It’s a strange thing to say about a book aimed at children as young as six months, but Victoria Chang and Marla Frazee’s Is Mommy? is brutally Shakespearean.”
Waking Brain Cells
“Take it as a lesson in toddler honesty and not personally and it’s a very funny read with a little bit of sass thrown in.”
Book Dragon, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
“Mothers, you will relate. Meet your bluntly honest children.”