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  • Have You Seen Axel? (Have You Seen...?)

Have You Seen Axel?
(Have You Seen...?)

Illustrator
Ruth Chan
Publication Date
October 20, 2026
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Interactive
Have You Seen Axel? (Have You Seen...?)

Description

Packed with funny animals and wildly detailed scenes, this laugh-out-loud picture book companion to Have You Seen Gordon? cleverly riffs on classic seek-and-find books with a main character who's a little too good at hiding.

Have you seen Axel the axolotl? Is she taking a dive? Is she performing live? Where the heck is she? Wow, she's pretty good at this game...

Axel the axolotl takes her turn in the spotlight only to prove so good at hiding, she's impossible to find! The narrator of this hilarious seek-and-find story coaches her on how to be seek-able until Axel is done playing. Then it's time for Axel and her friends to be the teachers and set the narrator straight about what is and isn't okay.

This madcap, fourth wall-breaking picture book is full of humor and full, zany spreads with details kids will return to again and again.

Publication date
October 20, 2026
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
32
ISBN-13
9781665970792
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Series
Have You Seen...?
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
JUV054000 - Juvenile Fiction | Activity Books
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Animals
Picture books
Picture puzzles

Kirkus Reviews

A meta, animal-centric seek-and-find... Waldo, Schmaldo. This hilarious book takes the seek-and-find someplace new.

Adam Jay Epstein
Adam Jay Epstein spent his childhood in Great Neck, New York, when he wasn't held captive aboard his father's sailboat. He spent many days sitting in the neighborhood park, travelling to fantasy lands in his head (occasionally when he was supposed to be doing his homework). In college, he circled the world on a ship and studied film at Wesleyan University. He is the author of the series Snared and Have You Seen Gordon? and the coauthor of the internationally bestselling middle grade fantasy series The Familiars and the Starbounders series. He has written film and television projects for Disney, Sony, Fox, MGM, Paramount, MTV, Hulu, Syfy, and Disney Channel. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two daughters, and dog, Pixel.
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