My Cold Went On Vacation - Hardcover

Molly Rausch lives in New Paltz, New York. This is her first children's book.

Nora Krug received a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Vanity Fair. She is an Associate Professor for Illustration at Parsons the New School for Design, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

“On Wednesday, my nose was running” begins this title, narrated by a young boy who stays home with a cold, and each spread describes the phases of being sick, illustrated in colorful, digitally-enhanced cartoon artwork. By Sunday, the boy’s cold is all gone, and he wonders where it went. Comical pictures show the cold as a big green monster with a long red nose and pink eyes in scenarios around the world: “Last summer, it visited my aunt in Iowa. She fed it chicken soup and kept it in with a book.” Could it be climbing mountains in the Alps? Making a whale sneeze in Antarctica? Stuck at the airport? “It does get to see a lot of people and places,” says the boy, but in the end, the cold is back home and just down the hall with his sister, who needs a Kleenex. Young children may not get the parody in each scene, but they will enjoy the global adventures and comical nonsense. Preschool-Grade 2. --Hazel Rochman