Three girls—Pam, Bess, and Sue—attend a party to celebrate the publication of the first Nancy Drew mystery book. There are many distractions at the fancy affair: flower arrangements, partygoers, refreshments, and lots of marble.

Suddenly, the oldest girl, Pam, sees what can only be described as something truly… bilious… not good! Bess sees it too. The youngest, Sue, does not, and as usual she has a hard time getting anyone to tell her anything.

32 pages, hardcover 🌺

“This send-up of the Nancy Drew mysteries by Kincaid first appeared as a 1980 New Yorker story about a gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first book’s publication. Here, Kincaid’s piece is recast as a picture book with dramatic artwork by Cortés. . . Detailed, almost photographically realistic portraits of girls and partygoers by Cortés, shown against marble architectural backdrops that suggest the New York Public Library, engage throughout . . . A gem.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“The book’s effervescent pictures, and its playful, secretive ending, will have young readers paging through it again and again, constructing stories and observations of their own.”
—Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

“I loved Party. It’s a beautiful book right in the tradition of Ezra Jack Keats.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates Author of The Water Dancer, Between the World and Me, and Marvel’s Black Panther