On Sale: Oct 28, 2025
Page Count: 120 pages
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN-13: 9798894140759

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, namely COCKTAIL TIME!

What better way to honor and enjoy all the holidays of a year than to toast each one with a fabulous new cocktail? This exuberant little book takes you from New Year’s Day all the way to New Year’s Eve, with stops along the way at the other festive holidays of the year: Groundhog Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fools’ Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. McEwan’s original creations are truly wonderful, and he is a droll and delightful guide through the tools and techniques the reader will need to make all these snazzy cocktails and mocktails at home. The book is designed and illustrated by the inimitable Sandra Boynton, who happens to be the author’s mother.

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By day, Devin C. B. McEwan is a Whitewater Slalom racer, traveling and competing internationally for the USA since 2001, including on the US Olympic Team in Rio in 2016. By night, McEwan is a fanatical and inventive mixology hobbyist, researching (i.e. reading and bar-hopping) extensively, and bringing tastes and techniques from his travels into play. His many friends keep urging him to open his own bar, but one of his drinking buddies told him that he should first write a book featuring his own cocktails—and she offered to do the illustrations. She's his mom, so he kind of had to say okay so as not to hurt her feelings.

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Sandra Boynton is the author's mother. When she's not busy taste-testing cocktails, Boynton writes/illustrates books and writes/produces music. She's worked with B.B. King, Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Brian Wilson, Kacey Musgraves, Ben Folds, Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Kate Winslet (a duet), Darius Rucker, Zooey Deschanel, Dwight Yoakam, Patrick Warburton, and others. But Devin is her favorite collaborator because NOT ONE of those other people ever even OFFERED to make her a cocktail.

"Passionate amateur mixologist McEwan teams up with Sandra Boynton (the beloved author/illustrator, who is also his mom) to create a collection of cocktails and mocktails guaranteed to make anyone’s year a bit brighter...Every recipe in the book is served with a generous jigger of wry wit that is perfectly matched by Boynton’s wonderfully whimsical accompanying illustrations. Those who take their drinking seriously will be pleased to find some marvelously inventive cocktail recipes in the mix...and ingenious tips. This infectiously fun collection of delectable drinks and charming illustrations will have readers saying, “I’ll drink to that.”"
Library Journal, Starred Review
“McEwan, a home bartender and debut author, teams up with his mother, bestselling children’s book author Boynton (Barnyard Dance), to whip up a charmingly silly collection of holiday-themed drinks… Festive, fun, and fanciful, this will make a great gift.”
Publishers Weekly

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Devin C. B. McEwan

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Devin C.B. McEwan will do just about anything to avoid getting a proper grown-up job. Since 2001, he’s been splish-splashing down the world’s rivers as a member of the U.S. Canoe & Kayak Team (and 2016 Olympic Team). An avid amateur mixologist, McEwan was recently told by a drinking buddy, “You should write a book! And I’ll do the illustrations!” While such drunken ramblings are usually best ignored, in this case the drinking buddy in question was Sandra Boynton, internationally celebrated cartoonist and, incidentally, McEwan’s mother—so how could he say no?

A pity! He would’ve made such a great CPA.

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Sandra Boynton

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Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist and writer. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated 80 children’s books and ten general audience books, including six New York Times bestsellers. 90 million of her books have been sold—“mostly to friends and family,” she says. She has also written and produced seven albums of renegade children’s music; three are certified Gold and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, is certified Platinum. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

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