Will It Be Okay?

Award-winning author Crescent Dragonwagon teams up with award-winning Julián Is a Mermaid illustrator Jessica Love to present a powerful updated edition of a classic picture book that asks a tough question and answers it with humanity, humor, and grace.

In this timeless picture book classic, a child asks, Will it be okay? That bee sting, that thunderstorm, those powerful feelings, losing a loved one.

Will It Be Okay? Yes—yes, it will.

“This tender tale is a balm for worried children in troubled times and a model of comfort for caregivers to offer them . . . More than OK. Much more.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

“With empathy, the creators imagine a parent with an uncanny ability to hear a child’s concerns, to hold the emotions that accompany them, and to think and talk about them.”—Publishers Weekly

Crescent Dragonwagon is the award-winning author of over fifty books for readers of all ages, including the original edition of Will It Be Okay?, published in 1977. She is the daughter of and literary executor for her late mother, Charlotte Zolotow. A native New Yorker, Crescent has lived in the Arkansas Ozarks for most of her adult life, where she does so now with her husband Mark Graff, and their cat, Felani. To learn more about Crescent go to www.dragonwagon.com. Jessica Love is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her critically acclaimed debut picture book, Julián Is a Mermaid, has received several prestigious awards, including the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award, as well as numerous starred reviews. She lives in New York.