THIS OR THAT?

Alexander can't decide on a Halloween costume, so he winds up as a pumpkin; he can't decide what to wear to school, so he misses the bus; he can't decide what school lunch to eat, so he winds up with tuna casserole.

Alexander's breakthrough comes on his birthday, when he asks for an ice cream sundae with everything but then realizes that chocolate swirl is all he wants. After that, Alexander finds his own decision-making style: not as deliberate as his mother or as quick to decide as his father, but somewhere in between, right where it belongs. And when he tells his mom he wants a baby brother, he learns that sometimes "you get what you get, and that can be OK too." Kell Andrews is a writer, editor, and content manager for higher education and philanthropy. Her picture books include The Book Dragon (Sterling, 2018) and Mira Forecasts the Future (Sterling, 2016), which was a Children's Book of the Month/Children's Book Club selection, Barnes & Noble Best Picture Book, B&N National Storytime selection, a short-list finalist for the Green Earth Book Award, a finalist for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, and a finalist for the OpenIDEO Early Childhood Book Challenge. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Spider and Ladybug. Hector Borlasca's work has appeared in advertising campaigns, magazines, newspapers, picture books, and textbooks in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Mexico. Until now he has been less well-known in the US, where his books include Yiddish Saves the Day (Behrman House, 2019), Big Kid Shoes (Scholastic, 2011), The Magic Words (Red Chair Press, 2012), and Trick or Treat (Golden Books, 2006).