By Kevin Henkes
Pub 1990
"I am the queen [. . . ] And I hate Julius"
I laughed out loud really hard the first time I read this to my little girl. The illustrations (and writing within them) make this story hilarious. Lilly is a small girl who couldn't be less thrilled about her new baby brother. She keeps asking about "after Julius goes away", tries to make him disappear. My favorite is how she sabotages his ABC's and 123's and whispers "I hate you, you're ugly" into his crib. Oh and the story she tells him (I have a lot of favorite parts). I feel like it was written by extremely amused parents who were smart enough to know that she would pass through this attention starved phase in no time and come to love the new addition to their family. Which (*spoiler*) she does.
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