*New & Notable Kids' Books - April Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated April 3, 2025
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Bruce saves the planet
Higgins, Ryan T.
Paper Book
From unwitting mother to unwitting . . . environmental activist? Save the planet with #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Ryan T. Higgins's beloved Mother Bruce. Bruce was a bear who liked to be by himself. But that wasn't easy for him, as mother...
How to Catch the Easter Bunny
Walstead, Alice.
Paper Book
From the creators of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a new exhilarating graphic novel adventure! Pup has boundless energy and endless optimism; Dragon is cool and thoughtful but always up for adventure...together, they are best friends who are...
A Vaisakhi to remember
Singh, Simran Jeet
Paper Book
A new picture book from Simran Jeet Singh, A Vaisakhi to Remember celebrates community and heritage as a young girl looks for points of connection in a new country through the joyous Sikh spring harvest holiday of Vaisakhi. In our village, the best day of all was...
Matzah day!
Offsay, Charlotte
Paper Book
It's Matzah Day! Celebrate with this joyful rhyming story! Mom and Dad and baby, too, We love matzah! So will you! In this fun rhyming story, a family celebrates Passover with lots of matzah-with lox, as stuffing, matzah pizza, and matzah candy....
The Bear Out There
Hannigan, Jess/ Hannigan, Jess (ILT)
Paper Book
DON'T SCREAM! There's something scary out in the forest, but you're in good hands in this story by Jess Hannigan, author of the wryly silly Spider in the Well. Just make sure you keep a cool head, and watch out for any intruders... The signs are clear--there's a BEAR OUT...
Cats in construction hats
Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
Colorful cats in construction hats are on the job to build a house in this adorable, bouncy, rhyming picture book! Kids will delight in learning about colors while giggling at the hilarious antics of these forklift driving kitties. Yellow cat. Green hat. Dig this....
The bad idea and other stories
Pizzoli, Greg
Paper Book
This giggle-inducing early reader kicks off a brand-new series featuring two unlikely friends, for fans of Frog and Toad, from beloved Geisel Award-winning author of The Watermelon Seed. Earl and Worm have been friends for a very, very long time, but their...
Lost and Found
DiCamillo, Kate/ Mok, Carmen (ILT)
Paper Book
Every friendship faces challenges. Orris and Timble are back in a poignant and evocatively illustrated tale of trust from a two-time Newbery Medalist. Orris the rat and Timble the owl are unlikely friends. Each night, Timble visits Orris in the barn and listens to his stories....
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus The Graphic Novel
Park, Barbara. 
Paper Book
Laugh out loud with the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones--now in graphic novels! It's Junie B.'s first day of kindergarten! But she's afraid of the school bus. Can she overcome her fears, or will she be stuck at school forever? "Hilarious. Barbara Park...
The cartoonists club : a graphic novel.
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling cartoonists Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression that blends how-to and comics magic. Welcome to the club! Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make...
Are you a friend of Dorothy? : the true story of an imaginary woman and the real people she helped
Lukoff, Kyle
Paper Book
From Newbery Honor and Stonewall Book Award-winning author Kyle Lukoff and celebrated picture book illustrator Levi Hastings comes an "approachable, engaging" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) picture book about how people found community in a time when they had to keep their true selves...
Bison : Community Builders and Grassland Caretakers
Backhouse, Frances
Bison are North America's largest land animals. Some 170,000 wood bison once roamed northern regions, while at least 30 million plains bison trekked across the rest of the continent. Almost driven to extinction in the 1800s by decades of slaughter and hunting, this ecological and cultural...
I Know Dino!: Amazing Breakthroughs, Mega Mistakes, and Unsolved Mysteries in Dinosaur Science
National Geographic Kids.
Paper Book
Get the deets on dinos and find out how we know what we know about them, from the hosts of the popular podcast I Know Dino! Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, but the world of dinosaur science has never been more alive! Over the last few decades, amazing...

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