This was so charming. My 7yo son who wants to be both an author AND an illustrator read this together, and we had a blast with it. It was fun to ask him what he thought would happen next, and he had a lot of good giggles at the constantly changing illustrations. I think this will be one to add to our library!

Cute book about how collaborating works with authors and illustrators, and it’s not always easy. Kids will find lots of laughs in their silly antics. I enjoyed how they compared book-making to food! Good lessons and fun to read. Book written with speech bubbles so you might need to make sure you get readers understand the flow of page, but a great teaching opportunity! I received an advance ebook from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This book is going to make teaching about authors and illustrators so much more fun and relatable than the current options! Not only do they include a hero that is super relatable to kids (although I’ll have to change my magic move word), the problem they solve together is something these kids deal with. This book is also a great example of group/partner work which so many elementary school kids have little experience with in since Covid!

The illustrations were cute and I like seeing the dynamics authors and illustrators have while doing graphic novels and illustrated stories like this.

Super cute and fun story about collaboration and friendship. Enjoyed the graphic novel feel and design with all the speech bubbles, etc. Think kids will love it.

I received this ARC from Capstone in exchange for an honest review

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This was a cute story! There is a humor element which students would really enjoy and would help keep them engaged. As an Elementary Librarian, I could see reading this book to kick off our lessons in Authors and Illustrators. If you need a book to introduce what Authors and Illustrators do, this is a great option

"Author vs. Illustrator", written by Don Lemke and illustrated by Bob Lentz, is a children's picture book. This is a clever and humorous book that will appeal to many children. It teaches how both people are needed in a partnership. Each person brings their strongest skill to the team. In this book, when the artist tries to make the book without the writer, it doesn't work. When the writer tries to create the book without pictures, that isn't as much fun either. Together, they create the best stories.

The drawings by Bob Lentz are cartoonlike and amusing. The two storylines, one of the story they are writing about the beast and the other about making their book, are both well written.

This is a great book for a family with two children, as well as for classrooms and school libraries. It is scheduled to publish August 1, 2024.

Thank you to Netgalley, Capstone Editions, and Don Lemke and Bob Lentz for providing this e-book ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Demonstrating, rather than just telling, how an author and illustrator work together to create a picture book is no easy feat. Navigating conflict and differences in opinions isn't easy either. This book manages to do both and to do both well!

Thank you Donald Lemke and NetGalley for allowing me an ARC to review prior to release.

Need a book that is fun, humorous, but has a lesson of friendship built in? No need to look any further! Author vs. Illustrator is a humorous book that shows the relationship between an illustrator and author, and what happens when they decide not to work together. This is a great book to teach students how to work together, as well as the importance of both an illustrator and author. Are they able to set aside their differences to finish the book? Well, you will just have to read it to find out yourself!

What a fun concept! An author and illustrator team up to make a book and show that both job are important to tell the story! I thought this was so fun, and it's a great one to read aloud or for early readers. The illustrations were colorful and well-down. The speech bubbles were easy to follow along with, and I think kids will enjoy the humor of this one!

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was almost like a beginner graphic-novel style book. It explains the making of a book and the job of an author and an illustrator. It shows that both are important and make the book better when they work together.

Not normally my style of read, but I think kids will love it.

The idea of an illustrator and an author coming up with a story together and then duking it out over their divergent ideas was a neat concept for a graphic novel or illustrated book. I'm just not 100% sure on the execution. I think I expected something a bit more fun to be honest, like they actually do duke it out. But a large part of the story was them working collaboratively together. The divergence was a very small part of the whole, and maybe that's where I kind of felt led astray. I wanted there to be some lead in and then the whole vs. to take over for a good portion of the middle until they realized how to work together. That is definitely covered in the book, but the actual conflict is the smallest part of the whole.

The artwork is fun, and I love the idea of this being a lesson in working together as much in the fiction as it is in the collaboration space. There is a good lesson here, and I do think that it is told fairly well. Just a bit better pacing would make this an awesome product.

This was really fun! Is the story more important, or the illustrations? Two friends are collaborating and can't agree on how the story should go.
The friends argue but decide they enjoy the stories they make together.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

The story and pictures are very cute, I know that my grandkids will love this story and it may help them figure out how to compromise sometimes.

I read this book to my 7 and 4 year old and they loved it! They loved the super heroes being all about ice cream. They also loved when the beast became cute after getting food. They giggled most of the way through the book. Overall, I think this book has a really good message for children about working together. The artwork style is really cute and the story is very good.

This meta picture book involves an author and illustrator arguing over the direction their story should go. Their dialogue appears in speech bubbles, and you can see the story taking shape and changing around them as they each come up with new ideas. The book is fun and silly, and it shares some good, subtle messages about compromise. Personally, I don't feel like this stands out among all the other meta picture books that have been published in the past decade, but it's cute and can be a good conversation-starter about the creative process.

This would be a great book for getting kids pumped to write and illustrate a story. I'd probably use it with more intermediate or uppe elementary aged students, because the dialogue is pretty lengthy. It's a cool concept and pretty well executed.

Good point!
This book tells vividly how authors and illustrators work together. At times, they will agree and create amazing work but there will be times when they disagree on the writing and the illustrations. This book is honest and creative. Amazing illustrations and storytelling I would say.

Thank you, Capstone, for the advance reading copy.

This is a funny book where the author and illustrator are arguing about what should happen in the story.

I liked this one, but felt that there were a lot of words. Would be better for upper elementary school readers.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.

Author vs Illustrator is a book about an author and an illustrator butting heads. They can’t agree on what the pictures should look like for the story.

This is a cute story! I loved the illustrations on this one, I think kids will really like the illustrations. I think the story is cute as well. It shows kids how to resolve an argument. I loved the real pictures and story at the end of the book as well.

Thanks so much to netgalley and Capstone for the arc of this book in exchange for an honest review!