4 STARRED REVIEWS! - A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2025! - Join adorable hedgehog Bean in the first picture book of a new series full of tiny stories about big everyday adventures that will warm quills -- and tickle funny bones!
Meet Bean, a very tiny hedgehog. She loves ghosts, swings and a stuffie called Clem.
Meet Bean's grandma. She loves strawberries, sweaters and tiny Bean burritos.
And they both love stories.
In ten tiny stories we follow Bean and her grandmother through adventures of the everyday. Bean loses her bad mood in a meadow and Grandma thinks she sees a ghost (don't worry it's just Bean!) -- and there's even a story with giant strawberries.
This first volume in the Tiny Bean's Big Adventures series by acclaimed author/illustrator and hedgehog friend/insider, Stephanie Graegin, is the perfect gift for little (and big) readers and hedgehog admirers everywhere.
"Varied in length, the tales are laced with simple yet delightful truths. . . . Graegin fills her delicately rendered, earth-toned art with charming details, as when Bean's little quills poke between the spaces of her bike helmet. Best of all, this intergenerational tale shows how grandparents and grandkids can live happy lives, needing no one but one another." --STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews
"Earth-toned digital artwork gives the duo all the accoutrements of humans, from toys to gardening tools to matching yellow boots, and oversize natural elements, including berries and flowers, remind readers of the critters' diminutive size. . . . Whether tracing efforts to battle a bad mood or the experience of being tucked in like a 'bean burrito, ' these legume-length stories consistently delight." --STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly
"Bean and Grandma's heartwarming everyday adventures, complete with subtle and genuine humor, are ripe for repeat reads and further series entries." --STARRED REVIEW, The Horn Book
"Graegin's finely detailed drawings and soft color palette are a cozy complement to her charming anecdotes, all of which demonstrate how the hedgehogs' daily lives are warmed and improved by love, imagination and play. . . . These 10 stories about growing up and adapting to change brim with cheery optimism. . . . Hooray for hedgehogs!" --STARRED REVIEW, BookPage
STEPHANIE GRAEGIN makes books for hedgehogs and humans of all ages. She spends her days and nights observing, recording and drawing the adventures of her hedgehog friends and neighbors. Her picture books include Little Fox in the Forest, Fern and Otto and The Long Ride Home. Stephanie has also illustrated numerous other children's books, such as the Heartwood Hotel series. She lives in New York.