Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow [Mother Bruce]by Ryan T. Higgins; illus. by the authorPrimary Disney-Hyperion 48 pp.7/23 9781368059589 $18.99Bruce the bear’s family of mice and geese tries to get him in the Halloween mood by acting out “The Legend of Soggy Hollow.” Mouse Nibbs is the Horseless Horseman...
A Super Scary Narwhalloween [Narwhal and Jelly Book]by Ben Clanton; illus. by the authorPrimary Tundra 72 pp.7/23 9780735266742 $12.99e-book ed. 9780735266759 $7.99Excited Narwhal can’t decide which costume to wear for Halloween, while scared Jelly doesn’t plan to participate. But when Jelly and their friends must “superfy” themselves to bravely rescue...
A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant by Briony May Smith; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp.8/23 9781536228489 $18.99Philippa, a pheasant, is “fed up with being nearly knocked pancake-flat” by cars whenever she crosses the road to eat blackberries by the forest where she lives. When her note to...
Real to Me by Minh Lê; illus. by Raissa FigueroaPreschool Knopf 40 pp.5/23 9780593377499 $18.99Library ed. 9780593377505 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593377512 $10.99“When you have a great friend, the rest of the world can seem to disappear.” But if that friend suddenly disappears, can you trust that they were real? Lê (Lift,...
"One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in." —Henry David Thoreau from Walden; Or, Life in the Woods I spent several hours on Saturday afternoon outside in the sun and warmth raking up the last...
Scattered Showers: Stories by Rainbow Rowell; illus. by Jim Tierney High School Wednesday/St. Martin’s 288 pp. 11/22 9781250855411 $24.99 e-book ed. 9781250855428 $12.99 Teen readers of Rowell’s (Eleanor & Park, rev. 5/13; Fangirl, rev. 11/13) first short-story collection will relish spending time with her nine distinct narratives about love (four...
The neighborhood that the four main characters of NBC's The Good Place resided in was rebooted over 800 times by the demon Michael. Every time one of the characters would figure out that they were actually in The Bad Place, Michael would wipe their memories and start over. I loved...
In Every Life by Marla Frazee; illus. by the author Preschool Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. 2/23 9781665912488 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781665912495 $10.99 In her latest picture book, Frazee says she “hoped to capture and honor what we all have in common, no matter who we are or where we live.”...
In the Neighborhood by Rocio Bonilla ; illus. by the author; trans. from Spanish by Maya Faye Lethem Preschool, Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp. g9/22 978-1-62354-360-0 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-247-8 9.99 The occupants of seven houses in the same neighborhood have never met when this story begins....