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Rock Paper Incisors
A Skunk and Badger Story
Contributors
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Oct 14, 2025
- Page Count
- 192 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- ISBN-13
- 9781643750071
Price
$18.99Format
Format:
- Hardcover $18.99
- ebook $10.99
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $18.99
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Skunk and Badger have an easy roommate rhythm—Skunk cooks! Badger cleans!—until they take in two orphaned rat pups, Zeno and Zephyr. Badger is working on an Important Rock Work article for Rock Hound Weekly and needs focus, focus, focus to write it. How much trouble could two tiny rats really be? Some scheduling, a few strategically placed naps, and all will be well.
But it’s winter, and nothing goes to plan. Hibernation threatens every routine. Articles refuse to write themselves. And rats in the rock room? It will take a North Twist village to raise these rats!
Featuring cozy drawings and full-color pictures by bestselling artist Jon Klassen, Amy Timberlake’s delightfully off-kilter adventure explores the complexity of friendship and the meaning of family in a wintery world where chickens wear parkas and Yard Sheep host spaghetti dinners. And wait! Is that a dinosaur?
Don’t miss Skunk and Badger’s other adventures in:
Skunk and Badger
Egg Marks the Spot
Series:
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A Chicago Public Library Best Book for Kids
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"Timberlake’s character work shines as a variety of creatures pop in and out of the story and Skunk and Badger are pushed to their limits."Booklist
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"Like a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter day."Kirkus Reviews
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"Many readers will likely recognize themselves or others they know in Badger’s difficulty in dealing with the unexpected."Horn Book
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Praise for Skunk and Badger:Kirkus Reviews, starred review
People Best Book for Kids * Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book * Booklist Editor’s Choice * School Library Journal Best Book * Publishers Weekly Best Book * Shelf Awareness for Readers Best Book * New York Public Library Best Book * Chicago Public Library Best Book * Amazon Top 20 Best Children's Books * Indigo Best Book of the Year * Evanston Public Library Great Kids Book * 2021 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Selection
“Wordy fun, with laugh-out-loud dialogue…this book defies age grouping.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Egg Marks the Spot:
A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2021
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021
* “Leaning heavily on its delightfully whimsical qualities, Book 2 of Timberlake and Klassen’s endearing series also boasts a whole lot of heart, perhaps even more so than its predecessor.”
