Is Mommy?
9781481402927 | Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster
What is YOUR mommy like? Six colorful kids are happy to tell you what their mommy is like!
In this joyous ode to hardworking mothers everywhere—who may not always be fun or organized or neat—Victoria Chang asks, do their toddlers love them anyway? Of course! Marla Frazee’s colorful and humorous illustrations bring this simple text—perfect for reading aloud—to vivid life.
Awards
Starred Review, School Library Journal
Fall 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List—“Inspired Recommendations for Kids from Indie Booksellers”
A New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2015
Reviews
★ “Toddlers will relish the simple, headstrong text in this quirky book.”
–School Library Journal, starred review
“Is Mommy? lobs an attack on perfectionism” and “reminds a reader that children love well and without reservation.”
–New York Times
“Is Mommy? is as charming, wicked, loving and delightfully askew as any mother worth hanging out with.”
–Daniel Handler
“Kids and their bedraggled mothers will love snuggling up and laughing at the never enough, messy, imperfectly perfect job of mommy-hood. I just love this book.”
–Jennifer Garner
“Somewhere, Maurice Sendak is smiling.”
–Travis Jonker, 100 Scope Notes, SLJ Blog
“A funny and deceptively simple meditation on unconditional filial love.”
–Kirkus
“It’s a strange thing to say about a book aimed at children as young as six months, but Victoria Chang and Marla Frazee’s Is Mommy? is brutally Shakespearean.”
–Boston Globe
“Take it as a lesson in toddler honesty and not personally and it’s a very funny read with a little bit of sass thrown in.” –Waking Brain Cells
“Mothers, you will relate. Meet your bluntly honest children.”
–Book Dragon, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center