Found You! - Hardcover

by Jane Godwin (Author), Sylvia Jukes Morris (Illustrator)

Hide-and-seek is fun. Until it's not . . . but maybe it's okay after all! For every kid who has ever had an anxious moment during play.

A very relatable story for 5-9-year-olds that acknowledges all of the big feelings and questions that kids ponder, in this social-emotional picture book.

Archie and his friends are playing hide-and-seek in the house. He finds the best hiding place. But is it too perfect? Will they ever find him? The question every kid has wondered at different times.

There's fun and joy and sometimes worry in a great game! And it's even better when everything turns out well in the end!

With wide-ranging appeal, Found You! is sure to be a relatable, comforting read for any kid who has ever played the game.

"Found You! is a thoughtful examination of how powerful it can be to spend time by ourselves and recognize our autonomy, but also how important it is to know we're never truly alone."
--The New York Times Book Review

Author Biography

Jane Godwin is a highly acclaimed author of over thirty books for children. Her work is published internationally, and she has received many awards, including the Queensland Premier's Award, the Aurealis Award, a shortlisting for the CBC Book of the Year Award, and more. She lives in Australia.

Sylvia Morris grew up in Adelaide in Australia and studied math in college. She started drawing when she was a twenty-two-year-old graduate student in Perth after she found it to be a useful meditative exercise. She loves how illustrating combines analyzing and creative problem-solving plus a love of reading. She was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia's 2023 award for new illustrator for this book. www.sylviamorris.com.au