McMahon, Bob

Fans of “Pizza and Taco,” “Elephant & Piggie,” “Narwhal and Jelly,” or any Dav Pilkey books will love this graphic novel.

Readers get a powerful, relatable lesson in the kind of coolness that matters: dismantling unfair systems for everyone’s benefit.

Cookie and Broccoli find that communication is key, and this story, read independently or with an adult, is a great start to a conversation between early elementary students and their grown-ups about kind, confident social interaction.