Bruce Handy

From New York Times Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy, a luminous picture book that invites careful observation of light and shadow in the natural world, as well as in our own emotional landscape.As the sun makes its daily journey across the sky, light comes down to illuminate our world. Moving and dancing along with this light come a variety...

From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies—from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and more. What influence did Francis Ford Coppola have on George Lucas’s American Graffiti? And Lucas on John Singleton’s Boyz...

Is there any creature in the world happier than a dog with a ball in its mouth? Maybe a cat in the sun? Or a kid eating ice cream? This gentle book, with its soft and evocative coloured pencil illustrations, is philosophical in its approach to the millions of forms that happiness can take, as well as the contrasting disappointments...

A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2023! An Academy of American Poets' Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! A Bookstagang Best of 2023 Winner: Best Illustration! This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin explores the idea of how life would be if certain things...

A sweet and engaging seek-and-find story that follows the ups and downs of a lost balloon. What’s better than holding onto a brand-new bright orange balloon? Oh no! What’s worse than accidentally letting go of a bright orange balloon and watching it float up... up... up into the sky? In this nearly wordless book, sharp-eyed readers will spot something orange...