Zoomi and Zoe and the Tricky Turnaround: 1 - Hardcover

Haydu, Corey Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683694589 ISBN 13: 9781683694588

Verlag: Quirk Books, 2025

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The Princess in Black meets Monsters, Inc. in this zany, heartwarming new series for early readers 4 to 8 years old!

Written by the acclaimed Corey Ann Haydu with sweet, quirky illustrations by Anne Appert, the Zoomi and Zoe series explores the wonder and anxiety of life's first big transitions with warmth, whimsy, and plenty of silliness.

Zoe loves routine, her stuffed rhino Zoomi, and her best friend Kyla. When Kyla moves away, Zoe feels alone. Until somehow, she’s transported to a magical new world with just one sort-of-familiar face: Zoomi, who is suddenly very much real.

Zoomi loves adventure, zooming, and her best friend Moo. In her world, life is full of happy surprises, but one ritual is certain: when something hard happens, she’ll have Tricky Turnaround. And when she does, a Happy Helpful Human from the “real” world will arrive to help her through it.

But when Zoe arrives, she doesn’t seem very happy. Or helpful. Or interested in the party Zoomi threw for her—complete with toothbrushes and a rainbow mud slide. In fact, Zoe may be navigating a Tricky Turnaround of her own. Can Zoomi and Zoe come together to help each other with the trickier parts of growing up, like saying goodbye to friends and making new ones?

Keep an eye out for book two, The Sibling Situation, launching in August 2025!

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Corey Ann Haydu is the author of many critically acclaimed middle grade and young adult novels, including Eventown, Lawless Spaces, Ever Cursed, and One Jar of Magic. She is also the author of the Hand-Me-Down Magic chapter book series and the upcoming picture book, A Place for Feelings. Corey is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and The New School’s Writing for Children MFA program, and a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young daughters.

Anne Appert is a storyteller who uses whimsy and humor to inspire and connect with readers on their own journeys toward becoming their most authentic selves. Anne went to the Fashion Institute of Technology for a BFA in illustration with a minor in English so they could bring their stories to life. Their first book was Blob, a picture book about being yourself. Their second book, What If You Wish?, is a picture book about the power of perseverance and wonder. Anne hopes to inspire all kids through fun and imaginative storytelling to dream big and love themselves. You can visit Anne at anneappert.com.

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Chapter One

There was one thing Zoomi loved: parties.

And there was one place Zoomi didn’t want to be: Moo’s party.

Not because Zoomi didn’t like Moo. In fact, Zoomi loved Moo. Moo was Zoomi’s best friend.

Which is exactly why Zoomi didn’t want to be at his going away party.

There were starcakes and a cloud house and dinosaur rides. But Zoomi would give up a hundred dinosaur rides if it meant Moo could stay.

“I can’t stay,” Moo said when Zoomi asked for the fifty-third time. They were eating starcakes while waiting for their turn to go down the rainbow mud slide. “We have a new home now. Three hours away.”

Zoomi didn’t know much about hours, but three sounded like too many. And she could not think of anywhere better than Moo’s cave, where he lived now. Except for maybe Doug’s bubble palace. Or Izly’s treetop home. Or Zoomi’s own invisible castle. But Moo’s parents had found some other cave in some other place, far away from Zoomi.

“Your turn,” Moo said. He always let Zoomi go first.

Zoomi went splat onto her furry stomach and did a slip-slide-swoosh down the rainbow mud. When she got up, her fur had turned every color of the rainbow. Moo went down next. His slippery scales made him go extra fast. When he got to the bottom, his parents said it was time to go.

The party was over.

“Don’t worry,” Moo said when Zoomi started to cry. “This is our Tricky Turn-around! And you know what that means.” Zoomi was crying so hard she only heard the last word Moo said.

“It is mean!” she replied. “It is so mean that your parents are making you move away!”

Moo tried again.

“No, Zoomi, that’s not what I said. I said it’s our Tricky Turnaround. We’ll finally get our Happy Helpful Humans! And they’ll get us! And then you’ll go down the rainbow mud slide together.”

Zoomi wiped away some tears. How had she forgotten? Her Happy Helpful Human! She had been waiting her whole life for this!

“I’m really going to get one?” Zoomi asked.

“We both are,” Moo said.

Zoomi swallowed. Moo’s Human was the luckiest. Moo’s Human got to have Moo. But first, Moo had to leave Zoomi. That was the sad part.

There couldn’t be a Tricky Turnaround and a Happy Helpful Human without the sad part.

And the sad part was really, really sad.

That’s what made it so tricky.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Quirk Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1683694589
• ISBN 13: 9781683694588
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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