NEW YORK (AP) — The creative team that brought you the best-selling parody of the Pence family rabbit has a new book coming.
Writer Jill Twiss and illustrator EG Keller are collaborating on “The Someone New,” HarperCollins Children’s Books announced Wednesday. Scheduled for June 4, the book is a parable about welcoming outsiders. It tells of a forest in which a chipmunk worries that the entrance of a snail will ruin the world he knows. The publisher will donate some proceeds to a charity aiding immigrant children.
Twiss is a staff writer for John Oliver’s HBO program. She and Keller worked on “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo,” which spoofs a picture story by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence by making Bundo a gay rabbit.
Twiss and Keller have also agreed to a second book for HarperCollins. Details will be revealed at a later date.
Last month, the Pences announced they would publish two more books about Bundo.
I ordered the LWT Marlon Bundo book as a goof and was so pleasantly surprised to find it a touching, heartwarming story that was totally appropriate the share with little ones. While our kids are too old for it, we gifted it to a toddler we know and she loves it!
Thank you for the recommendation.
This sounds like a worthy book too. The illustration is fabulous.
Yes! I love it.
Unfortunately it will be too easy for the tutti fascisti to mock it by showing snails crawling over everything, dealing tiny bags of weed and blowing themselves up.
But those critters on the cover sure are cute!
Marlon Prays the Gay Away and Marlon Sneaks a Flask Into Church.