My Friend, Loonie

Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award–winning author of several young adult novels, including We Are Okay, Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You, as well as a novel for adults, Yerba Buena. She is also the author of picture book Mama and Mummy and Me in the Middle, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita. Her books have won many awards and have been translated into several languages. Nina LaCour lives with her wife and their daughter in San Francisco, USA. Find Nina online at ninalacour.com and on Twitter and Instagram as @nina_lacour.Ashling Lindsay is the illustrator of several books for children, including The Night Box by Louise Greig, which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and The Tide by Clare Helen Welsh, a Crystal Kite Award winner. She is also the illustrator of an Alan Turing biography for the bestselling series Little People, Big Dreams. Ashling Lindsay lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Find Ashling online at ashlinglindsay.co.uk and on Instagram as @ashling.lindsay.

This is a book that is simply bursting with love and illustrates how loving families come in many forms, as the little girl’s joy and wonder is encouraged by her two loving mothers on every page. LaCour’s beautifully bright book perfectly captures the amazing way children can find wonder in almost anything.