Cool buds Treasure map! Treasure map! /

Barbara Lehman

Book - 2026

Welcome to Cozy Cove, population: 4! Blue, Puff, Tip, and Sealy are four cool buds living in the Arctic. When Tip finds a treasure map, the friends set out on an adventure to locate where X marks the spot. What will they find--gold? Jewels? A crown? It's up to the Cool Buds to find out! Cool Buds: Treasure Map is a Level Three I Can Read Comic, a more complex graphic novel story perfect for the independent comics reader.

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Subjects
Genres
Funny animal comics
Graphic novels
Comics (Graphic works)
Readers (Publications)
Bandes dessinées
Bandes dessinées anthropomorphiques
Published
New York, NY : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers [2026]
Language
English
Main Author
Barbara Lehman (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
123
ISBN
9780063389083
9780063389090
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Review by Horn Book Review

In the second installment of this comics series for new readers (Cool Buds: To the Rescue!), the Cool Buds -- an Arctic fox, Atlantic puffin, Arctic hare, and harbor seal -- find a treasure map in a bottle on the beach. After the fox prepares snacks, the quartet sets off on a quest. Thick borders on clearly delineated panels work with the movement of the characters to guide readers through the story. Clean compositions in blues and greens with pops of yellow and orange focus on action and details important to the plot, allowing novice readers to concentrate on decoding words that may be less familiar (rubies, delicious, quest). The friends follow the map to Dog Rock and find another map that leads them to Big Stump. They find a third map, they picnic, nap, and then follow the trail to Square Rock. While the characters don't have much individuality, their amiable collective personality, occasional species-specific dialogue (the puffin's "feathers crossed," the seal's "flipping out"), and the undeniable fun of following a treasure map give the book enough emotional energy to work. After visions of diamonds, pearls, and goblets (not goblins, the seal clarifies), our heroes find a box with a ping-pong set, which turns out to be all they needed to cap off the "best treasure hunt ever," in an offering whose sunny spirit warms its snowy Arctic setting. Adrienne PettinelliJanuary/February 2026 p.75 (c) Copyright The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.