Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes

All around the U.S. kids are beginning to go back to school. With that in mind, Kate asked me to come up with a back-to-school book I hadn’t done before. Now you might think that the only first day of school book the great Kevin Henkes created was Chrysanthemum (which we did back in 2021). Not so! Here we find another. Kate says the cover is what you get if you mix Maus with Clockwork Orange (though I think it looks more like Maus meets Vertigo). We talk about the panic attacks that are sure...