*New & Notable Kids' Books - December Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated December 2, 2025
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The book of candles : eight poems for Hanukkah
Snyder, Laurel
From Sydney Taylor Award winner and National Jewish Book Award honoree Laurel Snyder comes a warm, reverential, surprising, and fresh story of one very special Hanukkah. In a dark, dark room, one thin candle wakes, bursts to life Thus begins the first...
A snow day for Amos McGee
Stead, Philip Christian
A cozy tale of winter hope and joy, from award-winning and New York Times-bestselling duo Philip and Erin Stead, perfect for fans of The Snowy Nap and The Mitten. Amos McGee, the friendly zookeeper, loves spending time with his good friends no matter the...
Elmore and the big Christmas rescue
Petty, Dev
Elmore the Moose is back in a sweet and hilarious Christmas story about believing in yourself, even when under pressure. This adorable and funny picture book comes from the comic team that brought you I Don't Want to Be a Frog and Don't Eat Bees. Ho ho ho . . ....
Interrupting chicken saves the nutcracker
Stein, David Ezra
Paper Book
"Stein's metafictive narrative is sidesplittingly funny, capturing with aplomb young children's endearingly exasperating tendency to speak up when it's least convenient." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At her first ballet ever, can an excitable little Chicken resist helping...
How we love
Douglas, Kati
From the ALA Stonewall Award-winning team Little Feminist comes a gorgeous photographic board book celebrating the many ways we can express love! Love is listening even if there's nothing to say. Love is working to fix things and trying another way. ...
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs
Grant, Shauntay
Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet picture book from acclaimed author Shauntay Grant. Taking place over the course of a summer day, we follow a young girl as she and her family gather at her nana's house for a get-together where lessons are...
Whooo Is Still Awake?
Barrager, Brigette
Follow two curious owls on an enchanting nighttime adventure as they meet other nocturnal animals in this rhyming picture book by the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Uni the Unicorn series - perfect for bedtime reading! It's time we flew. ...
Keeper of the lost cities : The graphic novel part 2.
Messenger, Shannon
The epic first book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series is being reimagined into stunning graphic novels, and the story continues now with Part Two! After learning she's actually an elf, twelve-year-old Sophie Foster made...
Wings of Fire, Vol. 9 Talons of Power : A Graphic Novel.
Sutherland, Tui T.
The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series continue to set the world on fire! For every villain, there is a hero ... Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories. If he were, he'd use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia --...

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