The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon
Celebrity-authored children’s books have come in for a bit of a kicking recently, accused of being lazy, cynical ploys that have everything to do with expanding the brand of a star at that middle-aged point of their fame and precious little to do with nourishing the hearts and souls of their young readers.
Not this one. The first children’s book by the American comedian Kate McKinnon bucks that trend by actually being good. It’s exactly the kind of misfit celebration story you would expect from a performer who kept Madagascar hissing cockroaches as pets as a child, before gaining a cult following for her impressions on Saturday Night Live and stealing scenes as Weird Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film.
