New Children's Books August 2025

Updated July 30, 2025
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This year, a witch
Abbott, Zoey
Paper Book
Three starred reviews! In this "inspiring...delightful" (School Library Journal, starred review) picture book offering a twist on the trick-or-treat trope, a feisty little girl has had enough of her parents picking cutesy Halloween costumes for her--this year, a witch!<...
Bulldozer goes to school
Broach, Elise
Paper Book
Bulldozer is nervous about his new school year and worried he won't fit in. His friend Millie tries to reassure him, but Bulldozer isn't convinced...especially when he gets to his classroom and things start going wrong. But just when he's sure his day couldn't get worse, something amazing happens...
Mao Mao's perfectly imperfect day
Cham, Laan
Paper Book
A free-spirited new student helps a perfectionist panda embrace his more spontaneous side in this charming classroom story. Mao Mao strives for everything to be absolutely, 100%...PERFECT! But when Olivia joins his class, Mao Mao realizes that not everyone is this way....
Over in the mangroves
Gopal, Jyoti Rajan
Paper Book
Reimagining a classic nursery rhyme, Over in the Mangroves is an enchanting and multilayered picture book about the interconnected animals of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. Over in the mangroves by the river in the sun, slinks a fierce mama tiger and her little tiger one.<...
Toes, teeth, and tentacles : a curious counting book
Jenkins, Steve
Paper Book
This latest book by the Caldecott Honor-winning team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page highlights the numerous strange and fascinating features and appendages from teeth to toes to tongues of all kinds of animals. Did you know... a praying mantis only has one ear?...
Seven skies all at once
Kooser, Ted
Paper Book
The skies are hanging their freshly washed--and sweepingly illustrated--clouds out to dry in Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser's celestial ode to an approaching rainstorm. One sky unpins damp sheets of cirrus. Another wads cirrocumulus into a basket woven of sunbeams. Still...
Sabrena swept away
Riazi, Karuna
Paper Book
JLG Gold Standard Selection This lush reimagining of the classic characters from The One Thousand and One Nights is for fans of The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss. Sabrena's family has always claimed they are descended from the legendary...
Recess
Smith, Lane
Paper Book
Bestselling and award-winning creator Lane Smith presents an interactive read-aLOUD that invites readers to take a break, run wild with their imaginations, and join in on some good-natured, school-sanctioned shenanigans. School is where you go to learn. It is fun....
Soft and Sticky
Willis, Jeanne
Paper Book
Follow along as the friendship between two unlikely pals gets put to the test in this heartwarming and humorous tale. Soft and Sticky have been best friends forever, but lately little issues have been getting in the way. Soft's fluff keeps getting into Sticky's nose, and Sticky...

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