"'The selfish sister, pronoun 'she,' // only thinks of / me me me!' A green-skinned, one-toothed little tyrant, complete with her own tiny crown, terrorizes one and all with her insufferable greed and many demands. Yet Sedaris' deft rhymes make listening to her mandates an utter treat. A lesser artist might quail at the sheer variety of objects, concepts, and even seasons that this little despot lays claim to, but Staake is more than up to the challenge. Inventive stylings in pen and ink give this retro-looking tale some visual panache and a particularly contemporary bit of brazen appeal. Unlike with Sedaris' previous foray into picture books (2024's Pretty Ugly , illustrated by the late Ian Falconer), here he opts to include a smidgen of a lesson at the end of the tale, off-handedly mentioning that the sister has everything she could want, except for friends. Thankfully, this mic drop of a conclusion avoids any danger of didacticism."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The titular sister of this second subversive picture book from Sedaris ( Pretty Ugly ) is wildly covetous--she's even portrayed with skin that's an envious green. Staake ( Lost ) brings anarchic Ren & Stimpy -like energy to the proceedings via digitally colored pencil and ink drawings that give the book a raw, dark-carnival giddiness.

the illustrations supply a pressure-relief valve, giving readers permission to acknowledge what they know in their bones: siblings can be absolutely awful."-- Publishers Weekly "Giving a well-worn theme a fresh coat of righteous moralism, two New Yorker regulars send a grasping, green-skinned urchin sporting a golden princess crown on the road to just deserts.even younger readers should have no trouble figuring out the lesson. It may not take, though, since the high, wild, unbridled spree of acquisitiveness preceding the abrupt cutoff looks so fun."-- Booklist.