The Night Before the
Blue Tsunami
A rhyming, watercolor picture book for grown-ups about election night 2026, and the little ripple nobody saw coming.
$16.99 paperback
A gift for everyone who stayed up
- For the friend who refreshed the map until 2 a.m.
- For the group chat that watched the returns together.
- For the relative who owns every political book but this one.
- For the white-elephant swap that needs a clear winner.
Bring the wave home
- FormatPaperback, 8.5 × 8.5 in
- Pages32, full color
- AuthorC. Clement Waverly
- PublisherLantern & Palm Books
- Price$16.99
Look inside
Meet the characters
The Wave
About us
We’re Max and Mike—two friends who stayed up late on November 3rd refreshing the map long after we should have gone to bed.
The buzz around this moment was unlike anything we’d ever seen, and we wanted to capture it through a story. Not a news story, but the kind of story you tell at the holidays and that is best read out loud (to your grandpa’s chagrin). So, on November 4, we started writing it and rhyming it, drawing inspiration from a poem everyone (half) knows by heart.
We aren’t professional authors, but we enjoy the craft and worked overtime to bring this to life. We fussed over every line and page until the book matched the one we had in our heads. Early versions of the wave wore a hat. We don’t talk about the hat.
Mostly, we made the book we wanted to give our own friends and family this year. It’s for the people who stayed up with us, and for anyone who spoke up this year and found they weren’t alone.
Happy Holidays,
Max & Mike
C. Clement Waverly