*New & Notable Kids' Books - May Highlights*Unpublished

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Deborah Freedman is back with a heartwarming picture book on patience and love, perfect for Mother's Day! For Mama's special day, the kittens decide to gift her all sorts of flowers. Some are drawn and stamped. Others stitched and sung. Oleander, though, plants a seed in hopes of...

There are so many kinds of doors: swinging doors and sliding doors, screen doors for feeling the night air, revolving doors for going around and around. Doors that open into... anything you can imagine! A birthday party, a shipwreck on the salty sea floor, a fairy's tiny home, a slide into a room...

Pete the Cat explores his family tree in this I Can Read Phonics Level 2 story full of long vowel sounds and consonant digraphs perfect for learning to read. By the #1 New York Times bestselling team Kimberly and James Dean! Pete the Cat is making a family tree. He adds Mom, Dad, and Bob....

Twelve-year-old Zuzu Santos doesn't want a robot. She and her best friends, otherwise known as "the Valleycats," would rather explore Bright Valley on their own. But then Zuzu meets Snap, a know-it-all guardian robot with a limited battery life and an abundance of hope. A gripping, stand-alone,...

An Indie Next pick! From the Newbery Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan and Odder comes a stunning middle grade standalone novel-in-verse about compassion, resilience, and surprising friendships, following a dog named...

Laugh out loud with the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones--now in graphic novels! Junie B. is in big trouble! She told everyone in Room 9 that she'd have the best job in the whole world for job day . . . only how's she supposed to figure out what that is?! ...

Say hello to Max, a Little Axolotl! He's back for another silly and sweet story. This young graphic novel is perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly! Max has been attending school for a few months now and has really settled in at the aquarium. He absolutely loves his new friends and...

Mali and Puug are on an urgent mission to save the Serpent Guardian before all the salmon disappear from the river in this graphic novel for ages 6 to 8. It's time to fish salmon from the river, but Mali and her family are dismayed by the lack of fish. It's not just them; there just aren't...

Cassandra Calin returns with this charming and comical follow-up to The New Girl, her long-form graphic novel debut that became a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller! This middle-grade graphic novel about crushing and being crushed is the...

From the award-winning author/illustrator of GENDER QUEER and a bright new talent, the story of a kid named Saachi, who is navigating friendship woes, sister issues, a new crush, and a resistance to blue-and-pink binaries. Bodies are the worst. I wish I didn't have a body.<...

Perfect for: Emerging readers with an interest in STEM, forests, and fungi! Excellent resource for teachers, librarians, and homeschool educators to explore science, travel, and career topics Fans of other pick-your-path type

A clever comic strip adventure that takes kids on a trip through Earth's incredible history! Here's a simple, easy-to-understand chronicle of Earth's long history - 4.5 billion years, to be exact. Starting with the big bang and ending 66 million years ago with the extinction of the...

Shrink down to the size of an ant and discover a hidden world of wonder in this eye-opening science book for kids ages 9+. What would everything look like if you shrank to the size of an ant? The Miniverse zooms in to reveal the unexpected beauty and complexity of the...