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all are welcome
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cat
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connection
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friendship
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kangaroo
love
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respecting personal space
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SEL
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Social & Emotional Wellbeing Learning
sweet
Valentine's Day
Product details
- ISBN 9781665972727
- Dimensions: 229 x 286mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2026
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Written by award-winning author and musician Shannon Stocker and illustrated by Lily Hoang-Zhu (known as “liliuhms” online), this sweet and bouncy picture book is a pitch-perfect ode to hugs—whether they’re given or received! Perfect for fans of The Hug Machine.
What can you do when your heart’s supply
of happy-jolly-joyful-tickled-pink runs dry?
Get a hug!
There’s no better way to get love than to give it in this charming story full of hugs of all shapes and sizes. From pandas to elephants to grizzly bears to little kids, creatures feeling grumpy or down in the dumps ask for and receive embraces that turn their day around with affection and warmth!
What can you do when your heart’s supply
of happy-jolly-joyful-tickled-pink runs dry?
Get a hug!
There’s no better way to get love than to give it in this charming story full of hugs of all shapes and sizes. From pandas to elephants to grizzly bears to little kids, creatures feeling grumpy or down in the dumps ask for and receive embraces that turn their day around with affection and warmth!
Shannon Stocker is an award-winning author and songwriter who loves hugs. She’s the author of the picture book Get a Hug; Schneider Family Book Award–winning picture book Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth; and the young adult book Stronger at the Seams, among others. She lives with her husband, Greg, and her children, Cassidy and Tye, in Louisville, Kentucky. Visit her at ShannonStocker.com.
Lily Hoang-Zhu is an illustrator and designer whose work comes in all shapes and sizes for all sorts of things. You might know her as her moniker “liliuhms” across the worldwide web. She is based in sunny Denver, where she lives with her partner and always-hungry dog. Get a Hug is her first book for children. Visit her online at Liliuhms.com.
Lily Hoang-Zhu is an illustrator and designer whose work comes in all shapes and sizes for all sorts of things. You might know her as her moniker “liliuhms” across the worldwide web. She is based in sunny Denver, where she lives with her partner and always-hungry dog. Get a Hug is her first book for children. Visit her online at Liliuhms.com.
