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You Are a Star, Martin Luther King Jr.!

You Are a Star, Martin Luther King Jr.!, by Dean Robbins/Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams, (Jan. 2025, Scholastic Press), $8.99, ISBN: 9781338895100 Ages 5-7 Combine a first-person narrative with informative facts, add comic panels that provide additional information about Dr. King’s life, and you have the newest entry in the You Are a Star! series. Robbins brings Dr. King’s mission to…

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Taking on big feelings: There's a Robot in My Socks!

There’s a Robot in My Socks!, by Meredith Rusu/Illustrated by Martín Morón (Sept. 2024, Loyola Press & 4U2B Books & Media), $19.99, ISBN: 9780829457094 Ages 4-6 This rhyming tale helps readers process big feelings about change, led by a girl whose robot socks give life to her secret buddy: a robot who “makes things go just right”, and gets thing “done her way from morning until night”. The girl’s…

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Tales from the TBR: On the Island of the Mad Magician

On the Island of the Mad Magician: An Interactive Tale from the Realm of Goblin, by Eric Grissom/Illustrations by Ava Grissom, (Oct. 2023, Frankenstein’s Daughter), $8.99, ISBN: 978-0988951679 Ages 8-12 One of my favorite books to come out in 2021 was a graphic novel about a goblin on a quest for vengeance that became a journey of self-discovery. It’s called Goblin, and there’s a sequel, The Wolf…

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Tales from the TBR: Hedgehog and the Log

Hedgehog and the Log, by Pam Fong, (Jan. 2024, Union Square Kids), $18.99, ISBN: 9781454948537 Ages 4-8 Hedgehog outgrows his old home, and finds the perfect spot to build his new one – but his home is destroyed once he’s finished! He’s devastated; he cries, he rages, he feels sorry for himself… but once he changes how he views the situation, he is able to change his circumstances. The artwork…

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Tales from the TBR: Don't Be Mean to 13!

Don’t Be Mean to 13, by Douglas Harris/Illustrated by Robyn E. Blumner, (Oct. 2023, Label Free Publishing LLC), $12.95, ISBN: 978-1952843136 Ages 4-8 I’ve always gotten a kick out of Friday the 13th, but I get that it’s a real phobia for some people. Harris and Blumner mean to help folks get past that fear with this informative and fun book that dives into triskaidekaphobia, or the fear of the…

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Color Our World with stories!

Color Our World with stories! @barefootbooks @randomhousekids

Are you thinking of Summer Reading yet? I am, because we’re working with the theme that the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has for this year – Color Our World – and I’m enjoying the different books I can fit into this. We’ve got destination books; we have concepts; we have stories of people from all over the world. Naturally, I’ve got some new books that fit the bill. Let’s take a…

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Is it Real? Loch Ness Monster - Candace Fleming explores cryptids

Is it Real? Loch Ness Monster, by Candace Fleming, (March 2025, Scholastic Focus), $8.99, ISBN: 9781339037936 Ages 8-12 I loved books like these when I was a kid. Candace Fleming, award-winning kidlit author, has a new book coming out in March. The first in a new series, Is it Real? Loch Ness Monster is perfect for paranormal and science fiction fans. Fleming combines storytelling with nonfiction…

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Super Magic Boy is back, and he's a Space Tiger this time

Super Magic Boy is back, and he's a Space Tiger this time @blue_slip_media @randomhousekids

Super Magic Boy: I Am a Space Tiger! (#2), by Jarod Roselló, (Dec. 2024, RH Graphic), $10.99, ISBN: 9780593427811 Ages 4-8 Hugo the Super Magic Boy and his best buddy, Dino the Dinosaur, are back in another wacky adventure. This time, it’s Mami’s birthday and Hugo wants to find a gift that’s so amazing, it could be… out of this world! Transforming into a space tiger, the two travel through space…

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Explore anxiety and feelings with Babette: Baa Haa

Explore anxiety and feelings with Babette: Baa Haa

Baa Haa, by Audrey Perrott/Illustrated by Ross Burach, (March 2025, Scholastic Press), $18.99, ISBN: 9781546134039 Ages 4-8 Babette is a sheep who loves to laugh: so much that her friends have nicknamed her “Baa Haa”. But while it looks like Babette finds everything funny, she’s really covering up some big feelings, and it’s giving her a bellyache. Her friends discover her crying one day and…

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Duckie and Snaps meet can they be friends?

Duckie and Snaps meet can they be friends? @scholastic

Duckie and Snaps: We Cannot Be Friends!, by Ame Dyckman/Illustrated by Tim Miller, (Feb. 2025, Orchard Books), $14.99, ISBN: 9781338837872 Ages 2-6 The unlikeliest of friendships begins when one egg rolls into another’s nest. Duckie, a bright yellow duckling with a pink bow on her head, boisterously greets a more reserved crocodile and names him Snaps. As she’s describing all of the adventures…

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2025 is all about the dragons: A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson

2025 is all about the dragons: A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson @harpercollins

A Language of Dragons, by S.F. Williamson, (Jan 2025, HarperCollins), $19.99, ISBN: 9780063353848 Ages 13+ Dragons have always been popular, but 2025 is shaping up to be THE year for Dragon Lit. We all know about Onyx Storm hitting shelves later this month, but do you know about A Language of Dragons? Pull up a chair, let’s talk. Set in an alternate London in 1923, dragons are in the world but…

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Kids will love The Most Boring Book Ever

Kids will love The Most Boring Book Ever @mackidsbooks @brandsanderson @boltcity

The Most Boring Book Ever, by Brandon Sanderson/Illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi, (Sept. 2024, Roaring Brook Press), $19.99, ISBN: 9781250843661 Ages 4-8 “A boy sat in a chair”: so begins the boring story of a boy, a chair, and thoughts of laundry and math homework. Or is it? Sanderson pairs with Amulet creator Kibuishi to wink at readers as they take them through an incredible steampunk journey with…

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Christmas Board Books for stocking stuffers!

Christmas Board Books for stocking stuffers! @candlewickpress

You know I love a good board book and holiday board books are just the cutest! Enjoy the season’s readings! Winter Light, by Aaron Becker, (Sept. 2024, Candlewick Studio), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536236460 Ages Birth-3 Aaron Becker’s board books are works of art. Winter Light is the companion to We Are Light and describes the waning of light outdoors, heralding the arrival of “winter light”: “Glowing…

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You're Not Invited! A new garden adventure

You’re Not Invited! (An Ooey Gooeys Adventure), by Sylvia Rouss & David Titcher/Illustrations by Rick Penn Kraus, (Jan. 2025, Brandyland Publishers), $15.95, ISBN: 978-1962416672 Ages 3-7 There’s going to be a party in the garden, but Queen Bea doesn’t want any “ooey gooeys” at her party, leaving Shelly Snail, Willy Worm, and Speedy Centipede on the other side of the velvet rope. Things change,…

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Aisha's Colors teach joy

Aisha's Colors teach joy @candlewickpress

Aisha’s Colors, by Nabila Adani, (Sept. 2024, Candlewick Press), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536235401 Ages 3-7 A young girl living in Jakarta wishes her family would go on a vacation somewhere different, somewhere exciting, like her friends do. Her family takes the same trip every year: they drive to her Grandma’s village in the countryside. As her family sets out on their trip, Aisha thinks of the colors…

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It's hard to share our favorites: Mauntie and Me

It's hard to share our favorites: Mauntie and Me @candlewickpress

Mauntie and Me, by Rajani LaRocca/Illustrated by Nadia Alam, (Nov. 2024, Candlewick Press), $18.99, ISBN: 9781536229417 Ages 3-7 It can be really difficult to share our favorite family members: in Mauntie and Me, Priya is the youngest of her cousins and feels left behind when the family gathers on weekends. But it’s okay, because she has her mom’s youngest sister, who she calls Mauntie: short for…

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Pavlo Gets the Grumps - we all know it, don't we?

Pavlo Gets the Grumps - we all know it, don't we? @candlewickpress

Pavlo Gets the Grumps, by Natalia Shaloshvili, (Sept. 2024, Candlewick Press), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536235548 Ages 3-7 Pavlo is not in a great mood today. Mama has all sorts of great ideas, but Pavlo doesn’t want to do any of them: “The swings are too swingy, the sandbox is too sandy, and… the slide is too SLIDEY!” Pavlo adamantly refuses to admit it: he’s got the Grumps, and Mama gets him out the…