Join Mac Barnett and X. Fang at CBW to Celebrate their new book “Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains With a Boy”
Join Mac Barnett and X. Fang at CBW to Celebrate their new book “Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains With a Boy”
From two of the most exciting picture book makers today, Mac Barnett and X. Fang, comes a hilarious trickster tale and Freaky Friday switcheroo story. We are so very excited to welcome back to the store Mac Barnett and X. Fang. Join us on Saturday, October 17th at 1:00 pm as we celebrate this new release. This is sure to be a very special and very fun event. You won’t want to miss this one!
About Mac Barnett
MAC BARNETT, the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is a New York Times-bestselling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has sold more than five million copies worldwide. Mac’s books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and more! Mac is the co-creator, with Jon Klassen, of the Looking at Picture Books Substack, as well as Shape Island, a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their bestselling Shapes series of picture books. Mac lives in Oakland, California.
About X. Fang
X. FANG is a Taiwanese-American illustrator. Her picture books include Broken, a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award winner; We Are Definitely Human, recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award; and her debut picture book, Dim Sum Palace, which won the Society of Illustrators’ Dilys Evans Founder’s Award and was named one of Slate’s 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years, among other honors. She lives in Midcoast Maine.
About Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains With a Boy
A sneaky, cheeky sheep named Tom Nancy has a brain swap proposal for an innocent farm boy named Felix that will change both of their lives forever. Laugh-out-loud, subversive, and totally unexpected. Mac Barnett is a household name in the world of children’s books and Tom Nancy is full of the signature sense of humor his readers crave. Ezra Jack Keats Illustration Award Winner X. Fang has a funny bone that matches Mac’s brand of sly, dry comedy perfectly, and her signature hilarious, expressive illustrations will have readers glued to the page.