The Dragons Eat Noodles on Tuesdays

A playful, interactive and laugh-out-loud-funny picture book with a deliciously hilarious ending!

"Once upon a time," begins the big blue monster who is trying to tell a fabulous story. "It needs to be about a kid who is eaten by a dragon," he insists.But his little monster friend is not convinced that this is a good idea. "Dragon stories usually don't end well," he warns.As the two monsters argue over how the story should go, a hungry dragon named Dennis is listening nearby. Dennis knows exactly how this story should go... And by the way, what day is it?Watch out!

Jon Stahl is a former elementary school teacher, an award-winning filmmaker, and a proud father of two adorable monsters. He lives with said monsters and his wife, Wendy, in Oakland, California. This is his first book for young readers.



Tadgh (pronounced "Teague") Bentley is a picture book author and illustrator originally from the UK, now living in the Hocking Hills of Ohio with his wife Emily and puppy Atticus. After six years teaching elementary-aged children in Britain and Jordan, he had some time to pursue a long-held dream of writing and illustrating his own picture book. Many months and several false starts later, Emily had the hiccups at dinner and Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups was born. Little Penguin was published by Balzer + Bray in fall 2015, with Samson, the tale of a picky piranha on a culinary mission, published in spring 2017. You can visit him online at tadghbentley.com