Roz Chast is a national treasure, and Lorna is spun gold. So hilarious and smart and heartwarming. Perfection. Museum attendance worldwide will skyrocket thanks to this book. And every child on earth (and adult) will want to have a museum.

Maira Kalman, author of THE PRINCIPLES OF UNCERTAINTY

"Roz Chast's Lorna is a heart-buoying-and often hilarious-ode to dreamers, collectors, curators, and, yes, kooks everywhere. A bright, joyful celebration of the oft-overlooked truth that the world itself is one big, beautiful, mesmerizing museum.

Isaac Fitzgerald, bestselling children's author of HOW TO BE A PIRATE and New York Times bestselling author of AMERICAN RAMBLER

Roz Chast's singular vision invites us to see the world with curiosity, empathy, and the kind of attention that cultivates a love of humanity in all its glorious weirdness, even if the humans in question are birds. Lorna is a joy and a delight, as deeply satisfying as a perfect acorn.

Emily Flake, winner, the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Cartoon Art

If Roz Chast is not an actual bird, she has the spirit of one. To say Lorna is a work of fiction is to get it slightly wrong, I would say it feels more like a beautiful, heartbreaking memoir. This masterful book proves that her usual wit is not only appropriate for children, it's crucial.

Isaac Mizrahi

A new Roz Chast book is always the event of the year-but I wasn't expecting to find my childhood self living her best life in this one. To read Lorna is to have a dear friend.

Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist and author of PASSING FOR HUMAN

Chirrup-chirp, cheep! Peep, tweet-tweet. Squawk!' If you don't speak Birdese, here's a translation: “This book is hilarious and charming and the drawings are full of really great stuff. If you are a bird, platypus, stuffed dinosaur, glass eye, acorn, or human being, you will LOVE Lorna.

Patricia Marx