Hurry, Kate, or You'll Be Late!
Paperback – Picture Book, July 22, 2025
Candlewick Press · Paperback · July 22, 2025
A young girl stops to call out all the sights and sounds on her morning trip to pre-school, but that’s not what makes her late—it is her dad’s goodbye hug.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers who enjoy stories about vehicles and preschool mornings
- Themes
- Vehicles, Father-daughter affection, Preschool mornings
- Genres
- School Stories, Parent-Child Stories, Dates & Time
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A young girl stops to call out all the sights and sounds on her morning trip to pre-school, but that’s not what makes her late—it is her dad’s goodbye hug. Kate was late for preschool, but not for the reasons you might expect. It wasn’t because her daddy brushed her hair into poofs, or because they slowed to say hello to neighbors on the way to the bus stop. It wasn’t even because she had to wave to all the trucks, cars, and street cleaners on the road.
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No, Kate was late because just after they arrived at school, her daddy swooped in to give her a great big goodbye hug that lasted a very long time. Janice N. Harrington is the Ezra Jack Keats Award winning author of Going North. With Hurry Kate or You’ll be Late, she has teamed up with illustrator Tiffany Rose to create a delightful picture book about a vehicle obsessed girl and her very patient father.
Who it’s for
- Readers who enjoy stories about vehicles and preschool mornings
- Readers who enjoy affectionate stories about a father and daughter
Where it sits
| Parent-Child Stories | 38% |
|---|---|
| School Stories | 31% |
| Dates & Time | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Dates & Time
- Parent-Child Stories
- School Stories
- Authors
- Janice N. Harrington
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- July 22, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Vehicles · Father-daughter affection · Preschool mornings
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- Dates & Time