Phoebe's Diary · One More Exclamation

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About the Book

Title: Phoebe’s Diary

Author: Phoebe Wahl

Genre: Young Adult Illustrated Novel

Pub Date: September 5, 2023

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Drawn from real life, an honest illustrated diary of a teenage girl that captures the explosive turmoil and joy of adolescence.

Meet Phoebe. She’s cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic.

Like you.

And here is her diary, packed full of invaluable friends and heartbreaking crushes, spectacular playlists and vintage outfits, drama nerds and art kids, old wounds and new love. Based on her own teenage diary, Phoebe Wahl has melded truth with fiction and art with text, casting a spell that brings readers deep into the experience of growing up.

Review for Phoebe’s Diary

Add emotions, insecurity, music, clothes, crushes, mood swings, and you’ve got a teenager!

And now we get to look in a 15 year old’s diary as Wahl puts a spin on the insecure years of every teenager’s life through diary entries. You’ll be transported to the tough years of trying to fit in while finding yourself. While the story is down to earth, it is also sweet and believable. Phoebe is overweight and struggles with her image. Nora (Phoebe’s friend) is a great character and wins best supporting actress in my opinion. I loved the fun illustrations typical of Wahl’s picture books.

I’d enjoy a follow up to this story to provide more hope and insight for this teenage audience.

About the Author

Phoebe Wahl is an award-winning children’s book author, illustrator, and surface designer whose work focuses on themes of comfort, fantasy, and intimacy with nature and one another. She grew up unschooled in Washington state and credits her free-range childhood in the Northwest for much of her inspiration and values.

Phoebe’s first children’s book, Sonya’s Chickens won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for New Illustrator. Her most recent book, Little Witch Hazel, an Indie Bestseller, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Title, as well as named one of the Best Books of 2021 by BookPage, BookRiot, Booklist and the Chicago Public Library. Wahl’s other titles include The Blue House, Backyard Fairies, Paper Mice (written by Megan Wagner-Lloyd) and the forthcoming illustrated YA novel Phoebe’s Diary (Little, Brown 2023).

Her clients include: The New York Times, Maisonette, Figo Fabrics, Ingrid Michaelson, Patagonia, and Anna Sui.

Phoebe lives in Bellingham, Washington with her family and two rambunctious cats.

Phoebe is represented by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary.

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