PUBLISHING/TRANSLATION GRANT IS AVAILABLE FROM THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT (deadline for application is May 31)

⭐ A 2025 White Ravens book
⭐ A dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books selection (2025/2026 edition)
⭐ A 2026 Nami Island Concours winner (Purple Island)
⭐A 2025 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition finalist
⭐ Selected for the National Reading Plan in Portugal (PNL 2027)

From renowned and beloved Portuguese illustrator Catarina Sobral (nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026) and from Brazilian–American author Victor D.O. Santos (author of the internationally acclaimed picture book "What Makes Us Human", already translated into 41 languages, and of "FINITO", illustrated by critically acclaimed Polish illustrator Iwona Chmielewska), comes a fun, funny, and possibly beautifully weird book about people’s quirks.

SYNOPSIS:

Have you noticed the world is full of weird people?

In this book you will meet several of them. Could it be normal to be weird? If so, would it be weird to be normal? Huh . . . weird.