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Arrr, Mustache Baby!
Written by Bridget Heos
Illustrated by Joy Ang
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Picture.

Mustache Baby and his first mate, Beard Baby, set out to be heroes on the high seas, but soon the lure of pirate treasure takes hold.

By Alan Katz
Bloomsbury, 2015. Fiction. 195 pgs.

David and Nathan are twin brothers who just can't seem to keep a babysitter around for long--they've had 347 after all. Or is it 734? Either way, there's got to be someone who can handle these two. Enter: Martin Healy Discount, or "Murray Poopins" as the boys dub him.

By Tom Angelberger
Amulet Books, 2013. Fiction. 196 pgs.

Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.

By Joe McGee
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2021. Fiction. 152 pgs.

Fifth-graders Parker and Lucas get more than they bargained for when they seek to debunk one of Wolver Hollow's greatest legends about a haunted mustache that, every year on the anniversary of its owner's death, seeks a lip to claim as its own.

By Ben Clanton
Tundra Books, 2016. Picture.

Everybody looks better with a mustache...Especially monsters.

Written by Amy Young
Illustrated by AJ Young
Viking, 2021. Picture.

When a mustachioed rabbit spots a mustache contest, he's sure he has the competition beat. That is, until a pesky frog hops up with his own fine mustache. And a duck waddles up with a ... duckstache? Soon, the competition is full of moosestaches and mousestaches, whalestaches and tailstaches--and every kind of 'stache in between.


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