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Sloomoo: Making Friends

by Melissa de la Cruz and Mike Johnston

KidsBuzz: Encantos/Sloomoo Ink: Sloomoo: Making Friends by Melissa de la Cruz and Mike Johnston

Dear Reader,

30 years of Friendship: How Sloomoo: Making Friends Came to Life! While visiting our dear friend Karen, we brought our daughter, a young slime enthusiast, who introduced Karen to slime. It was an encounter that would eventually spark the creation of Sloomoo Institute, the world’s #1 slime experience.

Now we've come together again to create the origin story of how Sloomoo came to be--a graphic novel about friendship, creativity, and slime, written by lifelong friends who know that sometimes the best things in life begin simply... by making friends.

Sloomoo: Making Friends celebrates creativity, curiosity, and connection, encouraging kids to embrace the very things that make them them. It's STEM meets slime with, what we hope you'll agree, is fun, relatable humor kids ages 6-10 will love.

--Melissa de la Cruz and Mike Johnston

"Bustling... Rapid-fire dialogue, slime facts, and plenty of onomatopoeia combine to bring this ebullient story… to vivid life." --PW

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Sloomoo: Making Friends • Melissa de la Cruz & Mike Johnston • Publisher: Encantos/Sloomoo Ink, dist. by Macmillan • Graphic Novel • Ages 6-10 • List Price: $12.99 PB • ISBN: 9781954689367 • Pub Date: March 24, 2026

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