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    Little Passenger

    Author Deirdre Sullivan
    Illustrated by Jessica Love
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    Hardcover
    $18.99 US
    Candlewick
    9.7"W x 10.12"H x 0.33"D   | 12 oz | 38 per carton
    On sale Mar 17, 2026 | 32 Pages | 9781536242942
    Age 5-7 years | Grades K-2
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    A tender picture book explores the journey of an unborn child toward birth, and the love it receives as it grows, in a perfect gift for new and expanding families everywhere.

    Beloved, protected, and growing—from pea size to pumpkin size to baby—a little passenger is getting ready to meet the world. In this beautiful picture book evoking all the vulnerability, hope, and tenderness of pregnancy, Deirdre Sullivan’s simple, poetic words capture the inner dialogue and deeply felt connection between a mother and her unborn child. Jessica Love, creator of the celebrated Julián Is a Mermaid, brings her singular art to the pages in an inspired pairing sure to be treasured by expecting parents and older siblings-to-be.
    The text is wonderfully written and offers a feeling of beauty, love, and anticipation. . . . the artwork is outstanding.
    —School Library Journal

    Visually inventive. . . . reassuring verse builds with welcoming anticipation . . . while illustrations reveal the purpose of the adult’s handiwork: a cozy quilt to be shared by caregiver and new arrival. It’s a warmth-filled portrait that binds the loving act of making a quilt to one experience of growing a family.
    —Publishers Weekly

    In her debut picture book, Sullivan, acclaimed for her YA fiction, brings a gentle, lyrical voice to this contemplation of motherhood, sensitively illuminated with loose watercolor washes and a soft pastel palette by celebrated illustrator Love (Julián Is a Mermaid). . . . A lovely and reassuring read-aloud for a child anticipating a new sibling, this intimate portrait of a mother’s bond with her unborn child will also resonate with expectant parents.
    —Booklist
    Deirdre Sullivan is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, and Tangleweed and Brine. Little Passenger is her first picture book. The recipient of the Children’s Book Ireland Book of the Year award and the An Post Irish Book Award, Deirdre Sullivan lives in Dublin.

    Jessica Love is an actor and the author-illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, her debut picture book, which received the Stonewall Book Award, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and the Klaus Flugge Prize, as well as Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She has a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard, and has appeared in plays both on and off Broadway. Jessica Love lives in Rhinebeck, New York.
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    A tender picture book explores the journey of an unborn child toward birth, and the love it receives as it grows, in a perfect gift for new and expanding families everywhere.

    Beloved, protected, and growing—from pea size to pumpkin size to baby—a little passenger is getting ready to meet the world. In this beautiful picture book evoking all the vulnerability, hope, and tenderness of pregnancy, Deirdre Sullivan’s simple, poetic words capture the inner dialogue and deeply felt connection between a mother and her unborn child. Jessica Love, creator of the celebrated Julián Is a Mermaid, brings her singular art to the pages in an inspired pairing sure to be treasured by expecting parents and older siblings-to-be.

    Praise

    The text is wonderfully written and offers a feeling of beauty, love, and anticipation. . . . the artwork is outstanding.
    —School Library Journal

    Visually inventive. . . . reassuring verse builds with welcoming anticipation . . . while illustrations reveal the purpose of the adult’s handiwork: a cozy quilt to be shared by caregiver and new arrival. It’s a warmth-filled portrait that binds the loving act of making a quilt to one experience of growing a family.
    —Publishers Weekly

    In her debut picture book, Sullivan, acclaimed for her YA fiction, brings a gentle, lyrical voice to this contemplation of motherhood, sensitively illuminated with loose watercolor washes and a soft pastel palette by celebrated illustrator Love (Julián Is a Mermaid). . . . A lovely and reassuring read-aloud for a child anticipating a new sibling, this intimate portrait of a mother’s bond with her unborn child will also resonate with expectant parents.
    —Booklist

    Author

    Deirdre Sullivan is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, and Tangleweed and Brine. Little Passenger is her first picture book. The recipient of the Children’s Book Ireland Book of the Year award and the An Post Irish Book Award, Deirdre Sullivan lives in Dublin.

    Jessica Love is an actor and the author-illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, her debut picture book, which received the Stonewall Book Award, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and the Klaus Flugge Prize, as well as Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She has a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard, and has appeared in plays both on and off Broadway. Jessica Love lives in Rhinebeck, New York.
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