Waffles & Julius: No Hugs Please!

Ed Vere

Jun 2026 · Macmillan Young Listeners · Narrated by Joshua Quinn

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Waffles and Julius, a winning new grumpy/sunshine duo, will steal your heart in this tender and funny audibook about friendship and respecting each other’s differences, from Ed Vere, the bestselling creator of Max the Brave and How to Be a Lion.

Waffles and Julius: No Hugs Please! features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

"[Narrator Joshua] Quinn gives each [character] a fitting voice—eager and goofy for Waffles, slow and somewhat disdainful for Julius." —Kirkus

Waffles really, really loves hugs.
Julius does not.

Waffles would very much like to hug his friend Julius. Julius, however, prefers other things: most notably, cat-naps. But definitely not hugs.

Waffles will wait until Julius is ready. It won't be so hard...will it?
(Yes...it will.)

This funny story is about respecting one another’s differences—and the beautiful friendships that can blossom when we do.

A Macmillan Audio production from Balzer + Bray

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About the author

Ed Vere is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator of picture books, including How To Be a Lion (winner of Oscar's Book Prize and an E.B White Read Aloud Honor Book) and Max the Brave (which was named one of The Sunday Times's 100 Modern Children's Classics). He has collaborated with the UK-based the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, which encourages visual literacy in primary school education. He is also a painter, and works from his studio in East Sussex.

Ed Vere is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator of picture books, including How To Be a Lion (winner of Oscar's Book Prize and an E.B White Read Aloud Honor Book) and Max the Brave (which was named one of The Sunday Times's 100 Modern Children's Classics). He has...

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