Debug This Book

Omar Abed is the author of Debug This Book; You, Me, and a Tree; and The Book That Almost Rhymed. When he’s not writing picture books, he’s writing poetry and computer code. Omar lives with his family in northern Virginia, and you can find him on Instagram at @OmarAbedWrites.Julie Rowan-Zoch is the illustrator of Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening by Richard T. Morris, Debug This Book by Omar Abed, Not All Sheep Are Boring! by Bobby Moynihan, and Louis by Tom Lichtenheld, and is the author-illustrator of I’m a Hare, So There!. She grew up collecting freckles and chasing hermit crabs in New York and spent years slicing rich breads in Germany before waking up to 300 days of blue Colorado skies. Follow Julie on X @JulieRowanZoch and on Instagram @JRZoch.

*This lighthearted foray into debugging computer code uses the book itself as the device with the buggy code. Rowan-Zoch's clever illustrations demonstrate what happens when a bug gets into code and gets worse and worse. The text of the narrator's story starts to develop holes, slide off the page, and eventually turns to static. Words like "bug" and "fix" humorously summon people (e.g., an exterminator and a handyperson) whose skills do not quite match those needed to repair the issue. [...] Young readers will be charmed as they learn about, and get to participate in, the thought process behind debugging code in this involving tech tale.