This was a sweet, fun, and educational middle grade graphic novel! I enjoyed the humor—especially the way Pebble eats everything! The longer educational explanations of things like counting and space travel were a bit too on the nose for me and took me out of the reading experience, but I think they’d be more enjoyable for a middle grade audience, who would likely be coming at the information from a place of naïveté like Pebble.

Thanks to HarperCollins Children's Books, Clarion Books and NetGalley for the advanced readers copy!

Pebble is a monster who needs to go to the human world to unlock his skills. He eventually finds Wren and becomes her friend! Pebble and Wren spend all their time together and ask all the questions!

A cute graphic novel! The illustrations are great. Some of the chapters were a little long but I would definitely read more installments! Lovely LGBTQ rep!

This was lovely. It was heartwarming and sweet. It was educational. The illustrations were adorable. I loved the ending too. Oh and the dads were perfect!
My girls loved it as well.

The pull quote on the cover is from Nathan W. Pyle, creator of Strange Planet. If you liked that book, you will definitely like Pebble and Wren, a story about a human child and a monster and their adventures together. The book is whimsical and wise, and has a health dose of real science in it, to boot. The adventures are funny and, in an existential sense, thrilling. It is a highly original book and one which will find favor with many. Such as yours truly.

Rawr! Boo! These are just some scary noises a monster makes in the graphic novel Pebble and Wren. Pebble is a young monster who lives in the forest with his parents. To make it a full-fledged monster, he must venture onto the human world and find his new skill(s). In this new world, he meets Wren, a young girl who lives with her two dads. From math problems to solve to existential questions on life to even make-believe adventures in space, these two new friends play and spend all their time together. Until it's time for Pebble to gain his skill, or not?

It's fun to read, but the in-depth questions and explanations on different things confused me. (I was like the dad!) Pebble is a cute monster, not scary enough for Wren, but I liked their budding friendship along the way. I was horrified when Pebble ate those books. No, Pebble! Wren is a single child of her two dads and needs some friends, and that's where Pebble comes into the picture. The process of growing up for both of them is unique, and learning new things is a lot of fun, especially for Pebble. I wonder if there's a book 2?

This is a cute book, but it is no Calvin and Hobbs, no matter how much the hype team might want it to be. It is a gentler, version, perhaps.

Pebble is a monster who has to apprentice with a human, and just so happens to find his way to Wren's house, where her two dads welcome him in and he and Wren start having adventures together.

Sometimes they are in their imagination, such as when they take a trip to the moon. Other times they are real, as wehn they went to an invisible monster forest that only monsters could see, but whin Pebble at her side, Wren was able to see too.

All done in form panel strips on each page, sometimes nothing much happens. Other times you get a rip roaring story. It is a bit of that throughout. I found myself bored at times, and other times, wanting to know what would happen.

I am probably not the right audience, and younger kids might really get into this, but I just plodded along through the dull bits.

<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.</em>

3/5 stars. This was a cute story. It showcases LGBTQIAP+ characters that do not feel forced, as well as providing educational content. Some of the educational dialogue and scenes went on a little too long, but I had a fun time reading this. If it became a series, I would definitely continue it!