“A minimalist masterpiece.” - School Library Journal

* Kirkus, Best Picture Books of 2024

* School Library Association, Best Books of 2024

* American Library Association, Best Sustainability-Themed Children's Books of 2024

* American Library Association, Notable Children's Books of 2025

* Special Mention Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, Italy, 2025

“Heatwave… is a blindingly good book by the American artist-writer Lauren Redniss, which is technically about a day on the beach but somehow manages to evoke climate change with all the fear and paranoia of a 1950s B-movie while barely saying a word.”

- The Times (London)