Award-winning doodle artist Jon Burgerman returns to the world of picture books with another kid-empowering, laugh-out-loud story — “Rhyme Crime!”
Words have mysteriously gone missing. Who stole Marlow’s happy smile and replaced it with a crocodile? Who swiped Dingle’s sneeze and left a stinky cheese? Who took Tumble’s orange, and switched it with a … Hey, does anything rhyme with orange? No? Aha! Could this be the rhyming robber’s undoing?
Kids ages 3 to 5 will delight in using the rhyming pattern of the story to guess what the crook will steal next, and parents and teachers will appreciate that the story incorporates concepts such as rhyme, foreshadowing, and inferences.
Burgerman is a renowned artist and social media celebrity (118K Instagram followers and counting) known for his signature doodle art style. He is nominated in the “Art” category at this year’s 10th Annual Shorty Awards, which honors the best of social media.
His art is collected worldwide by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other institutions, and his commercial collaborators include Nike, Puma, Samsung, Pepsi, Coke, Levis, AOL, MTV, and Rip Curl. He published his first children’s book, “Splat!,” in 2017, which Oliver Jeffers called “a brilliantly playful book.”
“Rhyme Crime” by Jon Burgerman goes on sale April 3, $16.99; rando
