The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors [Hardcover]

New York TimesBestseller! 5 Starred Reviews!

Will have listeners in stitches. —Kirkus Reviews(starred review)

Purely absurd, sidesplitting humor. —Booklist(starred review)

Demands bombastic, full-volume performances. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Perfect for a guffawing share with younger sibs or buddy read. —BCCB(starred review)

The sort of story that makes children love to read. —School Library Journal(starred review)

From acclaimed, bestselling creators Drew Daywalt, author ofThe Day the Crayons QuitandThe Day the Crayons Came Home, and Adam Rex, author-illustrator ofFrankenstein Makes a Sandwich, comes a laugh-out-loud hilarious picture book about the epic tale of the classic game Rock, Paper, Scissors.

I couldn’t stop laughing while reading this aloud to a group of kids, commented the founder of Bookopolis.com, Kari Ness Riedel.

I hope you’re wearing your BATTLE PANTS!

You’ve played the game. Now read the legend of the three great warriors who started it all . . .

★ “Cheeky humor and prideful asides will have listeners in stitches. A closer-to-perfect pairing couldn’t be imagined. Everyone wins!”★ “The earnest gravity of the fighters’ quests paired with the mundane setting and melodramatic tone are perfectly balanced to produce a brand of purely absurd, sidesplitting humor that kids will gobble up.”★ “Daywalt’s text, set in a range of expressive fonts, combines the heightened verbosity of vintage action comics with the swagger of backyard scuffles, and Rex composes wildly dramatic battle scenes against backdrops of thunderstorms, erupting volcanoes, and missile ll³’