August 2025 Picture Book Selection | First Editions Club

New York, NY: Hachette Book Group | Nosy Crow (July 1, 2025)

First Edition. Signed on bookplate by Matt Hunt .

New in dust jacket.

Join Hare and Bear and ALL the fun of the fair in this hilarious story about friendship and compromise.

Hare and Bear are at the fair and they are NOT happy. Some rides swirl and twirl, and others bump and thump . . . Will the two friends ever find a ride they BOTH like?

From the bestselling duo behind the The Cat and the Rat and the Hat and The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat comes a hilarious new adventure about two friends determined to compromise on anything but fun.

Em Lynas is a children's author with a love of silly poetry, magic, dragons, and folklore. Em has been a shelf stacker, a shoe store assistant, an elementary school teacher, a mom, an educational publisher, and now, an author of funny books, including The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat, her most recent collaboration with Matt Hunt. She lives with her husband by the sea in Cleveland, England.

Matt Hunt is an illustrator who works in mixed media, using paint, pens, crayons, and digital methods. His many books for children include Up High, which he also wrote, and the poetry anthology A Whale of a Time, edited by Lou Peacock. He lives with his wife and son in Redditch, England.