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Simple Plan to Release Children's Picture Book

''I'm Just a Kid'' comes out March 9, 2027 and traces the story of the band's stellar career, built on friendship and perseverance.

Simple Plan to Release Children's Picture Book
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Billy Eff
By Billy EffSep 17, 2026
Billy Eff

Billy Eff is the Content Director for Rolling Stone Canada. An award-winning journalist and columnist, he has previously contributed to outlets including VICE and Urbania. A passionate advocate for underground music and a musician himself, he has conducted several hundred interviews with artists and industry professionals across a wide range of styles and genres over the past 15 years. He is based in Montréal, Québec.

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They might not be kids anymore, but the smash hit they released a quarter-century ago has earned them new audiences, generation after generation. Now, Montréal pop-punk vets Simple Plan are about to reach an even younger one.

The band announced yesterday the upcoming release of I'm Just a Kid, a children's picture book retracing the story of their career, which began in the mid-90s, when the members were attending Collège Beaubois, a high school in Montréal's Pierrefonds suburb. Since officially coming together in 1999 as Simple Plan, the band has sold millions of records and performed sold-out arena shows around the globe, in no small part thanks to their best-known track, I'm Just a Kid, from which the book takes its name.

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Now all parents themselves, the band members shared that this project meant a lot to them because ''reading bedtime stories to our kids was always one of our favourite and most sacred traditions.''

"When we started the band, our fans were young teenagers and our music helped them get through difficult times," Simple Plan says in the press release. "A lot of these fans are now becoming parents and it feels really special to connect with them in a whole new way as they enter this exciting new chapter of their lives."

Due out March 9, 2027, I'm Just a Kid was illustrated by award-winning children's book author and illustrator Jomike Tejido. 1$ from every copy sold will be donated to the Simple Plan Foundation, which helps children in need and offers music classes.

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