Dibs!

(Hardback)

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Teaching your little brother his first word--dibs--is funny. Until he starts calling dibs on everything, from your parents' bed to a real airplane to the White House. What's next Calling dibs on the moon Sure enough, Julian's little brother, Clancy, calls dibs on NASA and blasts off into space! Julian is glad to have Earth all to himself...at first. But Julian begins to miss Clancy. Can he harness the power of dibs to rescue his little brother This humorous take on sibling rivalry is by Laura Gehl, author of the hilarious picture book I Got a Chicken for My Birthday.

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"In a refreshing change of pace from most episodes about the evils of selfishness, the theme of 'learning to share' plays second fiddle to the brotherly bonding at the end."--Booklist

"Young readers will definitely call dibs on this one."--Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Laura Gehl is the award-winning author of more than three dozen picture books, board books, and early readers including Who Is a Scientist, I Got a Chicken for My Birthday, Dibs!, and Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways to Save our Planet. A former science teacher with a PhD in neuroscience, Laura lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband and four children. Marcin Piwowarski is a self-taught artist in traditional and digital illustration and has created illustrations for hundreds of books during his twenty-year artistic journey. His artwork is inspired by nature, daily life, and music, mixing magical and mysterious ambience with down-to-earth elements of everyday reality. Marcin lives in Portugal with his three children.