My Parents Won't Stop Talking! - by Emma Hunsinger & Tillie Walden (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

A child's plans are ruined when her parents have the gall to stop to talk to the neighbors in My Parents Won't Stop Talking!, a laugh-out-loud picture book about patience by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden.

It's time to go to the park, and Molly can't wait! It's going to be awesome and amazing and--

OH NO!

The neighbors have spotted her moms, and now they're talking. A lot. And everything they say is boring. Minutes feel like hours, hours feel like days, and days feel like eons . . .

Will her parents ever stop talking?!

This is a clever, irreverent take on a universal childhood dilemma, written and illustrated by two stars in the comics world.

Review Quotes

"Deeply satisfying, all-too-real wallowing with an expressive character in full-throttle comic agony." --Publishers Weekly

"Textual and visual humor is on constant boil... Pair this with Liz Scanlon's Five Minutes for a witty dive into what kids endure in a trying adult world." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)

"Accurately and humorously capture[s] the agony and interminability of waiting." --Booklist

About the Author

Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. She is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she now teaches. She has published three graphic novellas with London-based Avery Hill Publishing and On a Sunbeam and Eisner Award winners Are You Listening? and Spinning with First Second Books. She currently lives in Norwich, Vermont, with her cat, Stan.

Emma Hunsinger is a cartoonist from Connecticut. She started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic "How to Draw a Horse" appeared in the New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award. She currently lives in the Upper Valley, where she spends most of her time trying to stay warm.