The Truth About the Couch

<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Dragons Love Tacos</i> comes this hilarious picture book about everyone’s favorite piece of furniture.</b><br><br><i>Pssst! Hey. I'm here to tell ya what the furniture police don't want you to know... Listen close. I'll explain everything.</i><br><br>Most people think couches are just for sitting or maybe napping and don't give it a second thought. But did you know couches can go berserk if you don't feed them a steady diet of coins cell phones and remote controls? And did you know some couches are grown on a farm? (Where do you think the term <i>couch potato</i> comes from?) Some come from two chairs who love each other very much and some are actually aliens in disguise. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...<br><br>This laugh-out-loud send-up of conspiracy theories brings Adam Rubin's trademark zany humor together with the richly expressive artwork of <i>Macanudo</i> creator Liniers to explore the totally completely true (really! maybe?) history of the world's most beloved—and misunderstood—item of furniture. <b>Praise for </b><i><b>The Truth About the Couch</b></i><b>:<br></b><br>Full-on mayhem . . . Via this collection of musings Rubin (<i>High Five</i>) proves as quippy as ever . . . perhaps prompting human readers to regard their own settees in a new and more appreciative light. —<i>Publishers Weekly</i> Adam Rubin is the author of a dozen critically acclaimed picture books which have sold more than five million copies combined including <i>Dragons Love Tacos</i> <i>Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel</i> <i>High Five</i> <i>Gladys the Magic Chicken</i> <i>Secret Pizza Party</i> <i>Robo-Sauce</i> the Those Darn Squirrels trilogy and <i>El Chupacabras</i> which won the Texas Bluebonnet Award. He also wrote the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling middle-grade story collections <i>The Human Kaboom</i> and <i>The Ice Cream Machine</i> which was called “as delicious as a multilayer sundae” by <i>Parents</i> magazine.<br><br>Liniers is the author of more than thirty books including the Eisner Award–winning <i>Good Night Planet</i>. He is the creator of the daily comic strip <i>Macanudo</i> which has been published in Argentina by <i>La Nación</i> since 2002 and in English-language collections in the United States since 2014. He received the Inkpot Award for his contributions to the world of comics in 2018. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @porliniers.