Hide & Seek with Clyde & ­Monique: Clyde in Plain Sight

Gr 1-3–Friends Clyde and Monique take on the task of teaching readers to decode and interpret comics by leading them through a lesson in perspective and scale. Clyde, happy to be the hider first, hosts Monique, an enthusiastic seeker, on a romp through his aunt’s garden. On each panel and spread, readers will be able to find Clyde, even as Monique continually looks the wrong way or fails to go far enough into the basement, the chicken coop, or the greenhouse to see him. Readers will appreciate that they have a vantage point that Monique does not, opening the way for an understanding of angles and sightlines. The story ends with a big sneeze and the friends sharing a hatful of raspberries, looking forward to continuing their game. Monique is pale with a shock of blonde hair; Clyde has tan skin and short, dark curls.