Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s picture books

JUST ONE MORE

Jennifer Hansen Rolli

A sweetly comical picture book with an easy to understand message and charming art.

Sometimes Ruby needs just one more minute of sleep, one more thingy for her hair, one more push on the swing, and one more scoop on her cone, (and one more, and one more, and one more . . .) until one more is just too much. Maybe it’s time for just one? If you know a someone like Ruby, Just One More will be just right!

Jennifer Hansen ran her own design firm for many years before returning to her first love: oil painting. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her family. She (usually) gets a kick out of her own children pushing for “just one more” until the occasional crash! boom! bang! and the realization that she has let them express a little too much independence! Just One More is her first book for children.

Available products
Book Published 2014-04-16 by Viking
Book Published 2014-04-16 by Viking

Comments

This charming book is just right!

Debut author-illustrator Rolli's buttery, pastel-hued oil paintings convey a character who's the soul of doe-eyed adorableness.

A worthy companion for Ian Falconer's Olivia.

Starting with her request for “just one more minute” of sleep when woken, blonde, pink-cheeked moppet Ruby asks for several other things without coming across as spoiled or demanding. This is due to her sweet depiction in Rolli’s digitally enhanced oil paintings that show her smiling and enjoying hair thingies, rides on a mechanical horse and dropping pennies in a fountain to make wishes. She does end up learning an overt lesson when her request for “just one more scoop” of ice cream causes her towering cone to topple over. Then she makes do with “just one toy in the tub” (albeit a gargantuan rubber duck that looks more like a pool toy) and “just one book before bed” (a huge volume entitled The World’s Complete Book of Fairy Tales). Judging by the lipstick marks all over her face, however, her request for multiple bedtime kisses is indulged.