On The Account Of The Gum
By Adam Rex
A JLG selection, Kansas NEA Reading Circle selection, A Today Show Best Book of the Year, Nerdies Best Book of the Year, and Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU) Beehive Award Nominee
★ "A gloriously giggly tale glued together by a glob of very gooey gum." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
★ "[B]rilliantly detailed. . . . the child's expressions are masterpieces in and of themselves. . . . Rex is king of the picture books. Consider this required reading." —Booklist, Starred Review
"[A]lready giggling audience[s will] burst into belly laughs." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Snappy second-person verse enumerates a family's vain efforts to remove a blob of shocking pink bubblegum as Rex (Unstoppable) dreams up ever-grosser remedies for the hairy dilemma." —Publisher's Weekly
"But underneath the silliness, On Account of the Gum harbors a substantive, empowering message. To borrow the book's idiom: There's a point to all of this rat-a-tat rhyme/ It turns out the kid had the cure the whole time." —Shelf Awareness