Tippy and the Night Parade

(Paperback)

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When Tippy wakes up, there's a peacock in her bedroom, a bird in her hair, and mice dancing on the headboard... Yet all Tippy remembers is falling asleep. In her first book for children, award-winning cartoonist Lilli Carre_x0301_ takes Tippy on a nocturnal adventure up a mountain, down a hole, and back home for endless bedtime enjoyment.

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While respectably hardcover and didactically appended with suggestions for reading guidance, Tippy uses the paneled art and speech balloons of comics and displays its downtown roots through an offbeat color palette (cantaloupe, chocolate and gunmetal blue), blithe generalization of form and a bed-headed heroine who looks as much the hipster gamin as she does a little girl.
The New York Times Book Review

In her first book for young children, cartoonist Carr repeats key phrases in the text to help beginning readers... Tippys calm, sleepy suppositions clash deliciously with the gradually increasing disorder found in the accompanying panels. Young readers will delight in all the crazy details: the mice dancing on the headboard of Tippys bed; the moles hilarious devotion to the bear; the goat chewing Tippys hair as the story ends. Carr skillfully employs a limited color palette, with warm oranges underscoring the messy mayhem of Tippys room and cool midnight blues and slate grays providing a serene backdrop for Tippys late-night ramblings.
The Horn Book

This quirky comic for early readers offers simple panels with easy-to-find details and monochromatic color schemesorange for the day and shades of blue for the night. ... Consistent with the Toon Book line, tips for reading comics with children appear in the back matter. Carrs retro and dreamy illustrations readily lend themselves to visual literacy practices: kids can ham it up with sound effects (bumps, scrapes, and animal sounds), and parents and educators can let children guess about the context of the pictures.
School Library Journal

A beguiling tale of a girl who sleepwalks into a midnight-blue dreamscape, leaving her with a mysteriously messy bedroomand a bird on her head.
FamilyFun

Author Bio

Lilli Carre_x0301_ grew up in California and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she works as an artist, a filmmaker, and an illustrator. Tippy and the Night Parade is her first book for children. As a kid, Lilli always dreamed of having wild animals follow her, but it usually ended up the other way around. Now she likes to take long, wandering walks around the city. No one has ever told her that she sleepwalks, but she often wakes up to find herself in a very messy room, occasionally with a cat on her head.