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The Arguers

Name: The Arguers
ISBN: 9781984814425

Hardcover – Picture Book, May 27, 2025

Corinna Luyken

Penguin Young Readers Group · Hardcover · May 27, 2025

Reading lane: Manners & Etiquette

Fairy Tales & Folklore Manners & Etiquette Folktale Retellings children

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A Fine Quarrel

A fairy tale turns petty disagreements into an increasingly ridiculous communal sport.

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Tiny disputes over beard tools and spoons, blown gloriously out of proportion

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A royal contest to crown the land’s best arguer

Book Details

Authors: Corinna Luyken
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: May 27, 2025
Format: Hardcover
Theme: Manners & Etiquette · Folktale Retellings
Reading lane: Manners & Etiquette

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Fairy Tales & Folklore
Friendship
Manners & Etiquette

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A delightfully preposterous and original fairy tale about a community that forgets how to get along, by the celebrated creator of The Book of Mistakes The first argument was over a brush and a comb, and which would be better for taking a tangle out of the king's beard. Next came the argument over letters, and then over spoons . . . and soon they argued all the time, and no one could remember when the arguing had started or over what or by whom. They only knew that they had always argued, and that they did it well. Very, very well. And so it was that the king and queen decided to hold a contest to choose the very best arguer in the land. But what will happen when everyone is so busy arguing that they can't even hear the queen announce the start of the contest?