Sibling resentment turns into a squirmy revenge fantasy in this comical picture book from Hauswirth, making her picture book debut, and Goecke (Billy and The Hole). . . . Via a crisp inked-line look and soft washes of pink, peach, and brown, the digital art takes dictation from the narrator’s runaway imagination, depicting each worm pro and con with a wink, as the sister worms her way back into the narrator’s heart.
—Publishers Weekly
Goecke has a lot of pink on her Procreate palette, the better for capturing the fantasized googly-eyed slimy-worm version of Maggie’s irritating sib. An original take on a familiar sibling dynamic.
—Kirkus Reviews
As Maggie’s thoughts spiral, the muted illustrations . . . provide a comical reel of the sisters’ actual and imagined time together, leading Maggie to a wonderfully unexpected conclusion. A light-hearted family story that’s heavy on the laughs.
—Booklist
This gently humorous love letter to big sisters doesn’t pull its punches on sources of sibling conflict, but it lingers more on the joys of having and being a sister. As humans, Maggie and her sister are lively figures in energetic digital drawings in pink and brown hues, with cartoonish oversized heads and expressive facial features on spindly, dynamic bodies. As a worm, Louie is just as animated. . . . This cheeky picture book strikes the perfect balance of humor and sweetness that would fit in just as well at bedtime as it would in a classroom readaloud. . . .
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books