Don’t Eat Eustace

Need a laugh?

Need an unexpected, unpredictable, highly enjoyable read?

Yes, yes we do! So here is DON’T EAT EUSTACE written and illustrated by Lian Cho.

Bear lives in alone in their lighthouse. One day they catch a fish named Eustace, and it’s obvious that Bear is going to enjoy a hearty fish stew. Bear gets hungrier and hungrier as they use a cloth sail to mend a broken-winged heron and to clothe an unpopular shark.

The humor is subtle and giggle-worthy throughout the book and culminates in an unexpected laugh-out-loud twist that is sure to elicit chuckles from readers of all ages.

It was really enjoyable to read a picture book that tells the tale clever both with the dialogue, as well as providing lots of visual story telling clues. The job of the illustrator of a picture book isn’t just to decorate the page, but to provide more of the story. When this is done well, that creates a book that a reader wants to revisit time and time again, and Don’t Eat Eustace does just that.

Jennifer Black Reinhardt

Jennifer is the illustrator and author of several acclaimed picture books. Most recently is MOVING DAY, written by Teri Roche Drobnick, which she illustrated. Jennifer wrote and illustrated, Always by My Side, 'A Stuffie Story'. She also is both the author and illustrator of Playing Possum, and Blue Ethel. Jennifer illustrated Gondra’s Treasure, written by Newbery award winner Linda Sue Park. As well as, Sometimes You Fly, by Newbery medalist, Katherine Applegate. She illustrated Yaks Yak, Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park, Fishtastic!, by Tess Weaver, The Inventor's Secret, What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford, by Suzanne Slade, Rabbi Benjamin's Buttons, by Alice B. McGinty, and The Adventures of a South Pole Pig, by Chris Kurtz.

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