Do You Like My Pants?

Cheetah has the world’s finest pair of pants—spotted, sleek, and just his style! At least, that’s what the enthusiastic pants salesman said. Cheetah can’t wait to dance around and show off his perfect spotted pants…until he meets a tiger who insists stripes are superior. Both felines are confused: whose pants are really the cat’s meow?

Penguin, 2026

This intermittently rhyming offering is in good company with its forebear: Dr. Seuss’ “The Sneetches,” another cautionary kid-pleaser in which a superficial attribute leads one party to feel unjustifiably superior to another. Shryock, in her first outing as author/illustrator, largely sticks with a très chic green, peach, blue, and black palette to capture the hilarious strutting braggadocio of the book’s absurdly long-legged and flexible cast of bipedal animals.

- Kirkus Reviews