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Enough Is

NYSRA 2025 Charlottee Award Nominee

For kids encountering the pressure to fit in with peers, this picture-book story explores a concept that is key to happiness: how much is enough?

How many friends, turns, clothes, toys, fashion accessories, books? How much of anything? The pictures follow one child as she learns the difference between wanting and needing and, in the end, feels the contentment that flows from being satisfied with what she has. The text, meanwhile, frames a difficult idea in simple, spare language: "Somewhere between a little and a lot, there is Enough. It might be hard to spot, but it's always there."
Jessica Whipple has a background in marketing and communications. She has worked as a copywriter and in communications for a Pennsylvania nonprofit. Now an SCBWI member, she has sold articles to Highlights and is a long-term contributor to Wildflowers: A Creative Magazine for Girls. She also writes poetry for children. She and her husband and two young daughters recently moved from Pittsburgh to Lancaster, PA. This is Jessica's first children's book.

Nicole Wong has lived her whole life in Fall River, Massachusetts, walking along downtown streets where once a river and eight waterfalls flowed, all demolished and replaced by an interstate highway. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Nicole has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, including Kiyoshi’s Walk, Diving Deep, Three Lost Seeds, I'll Be the Water, and No Year of the Cat. She lives with her husband, their daughter, and their pets.
"In a world where we are constantly urged to seek out the newer, better, best, debut children’s author Whipple makes a solid case for the concept of Enough...a good introduction to a valuable yet abstract idea that is bound to spark discussion as kids consider what Enough means to them." ― Kirkus Reviews

"This was a surprisingly deep picture book, and I adored the message... If read often enough, I think this is the sort of book that will burn onto a child’s subcouscious and be something that they find themselve quoting twenty years hence...This combines a lot of really great philosophies about what enough is, so is great to read along with books about sharing..." ― Young Adult Books Central

"Perfect for sparking conversations with little ones (and even ourselves!) about gratitude, mindfulness, and finding joy in the present moment." ― The Inclusive Bookshelf