Harriet Gets Carried Away

Jessie Sima

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Mar 6, 2018 - Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages

From the author and illustrator of the bestselling Not Quite Narwhal comes a sweet and funny story about remembering where you belong, no matter how far you roam, or what you’re wearing when you get there.

Harriet loves costumes. She wears them to the dentist, to the supermarket, and most importantly, to her super-special dress-up birthday party. Her dads have decorated everything for the party and Harriet has her most favorite costume all picked out for the big day. There’s just one thing missing—party hats!

But when Harriet dons her special penguin errand-running costume and sets out to find the perfect ones, she finds something else instead—real penguins! Harriet gets carried away with the flock. She may look like a penguin, but she’s not so sure she belongs in the arctic. Can Harriet manage her way back to her dads (and the party hats!) in time for her special day?

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Harriet Gets Carried Away

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Dress-up-loving Harriet wears costumes everywhere; in one early scene, Sima (Not Quite Narwhal) shows her in the dentist’s chair, opening her mouth wide while inside an equally toothy dinosaur outfit ...

About the author

Jessie Sima is an author/illustrator living and working in New York City. They grew up in a small town in southern New Jersey, unaware that they were a storyteller. Once they figured it out, they told their family and friends, who took it quite well. They are the author of Not Quite Narwhal; Harriet Gets Carried Away; Love, Z; Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies; Spencer’s New Pet; Jules vs. the Ocean; Hardly Haunted; and Weather Together. You can visit them at JessieSima.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Harriet Gets Carried Away
• Author: Jessie Sima
• Illustrated by: Jessie Sima
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018
• ISBN: 1481469118, 9781481469111
• Length: 48 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Alternative Family; Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Polar Regions