January Releases

Marie-Therese Miller is the award-winning author of 60 nonfiction books for children and teens. Her recent selections include Zendaya, Taylor Swift: Unstoppable Icon, Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, and Orcas Attack, Miller earned her PhD in English from St. John’s University, where her academic focus was James Thurber’s humorous writing. She teaches Children’s and YA Literature at Marist University.

Concussions are dangerous head injuries that harm many young athletes. These injuries can affect sleep, neural synapses, memory, and more. Learn about concussions in youth sports, from why they happen to how they are treated.  Hardcover: 9798765689578 PURCHASE
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Katy Tanis is an explorer, illustrator, and children’s book author. She lives and works at the Jersey Shore. She spends most of her days chasing deadlines but occasionally wanders to far-off places, like Madagascar, where she chases primates instead. Her work is inspired by specific ecosystems and the wonderful webs of life that they contain. Katy has a soft spot for the weirdos of the animal kingdom, and she has never met a color she didn’t like.

​The delightful and enchanting companion to the bestselling Love in the Wild board book! This beautifully illustrated book is filled with vibrant colors that bring to life the deep blue sea and its ocean inhabitants. The book celebrates the love expressed by various sea creatures, emphasizing that love is universal, whether you're an octopus, seahorse, or pufferfish. Through charming rhyming text and colorful artwork, children are introduced to diverse species, each of which demonstrates affection in unique and tender ways. The book promotes inclusivity, showing that love is a universal feeling. Hardcover: 9780735383531 PURCHASE

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February Releases

Sibert Honor author Patricia Newman empowers readers to seek connections to the real world and to use their imaginations to act on behalf of their communities. Her new Teach the Hope initiative integrates gratitude, connection and narrative nonfiction books like hers that introduce readers to civic role models to inspire action, not anxiety. Patricia’s titles have received multiple starred reviews, two Orbis Pictus Recommended Awards (NCTE), two Green Earth Book Awards, and several Eureka! Awards (CRA). All her nonfiction titles are Junior Library Guild Selections, and most have been included in the Bank Street College’s Best Books of the Year lists. To learn more about her books and Teach the Hope, visit her website at patriciamnewman.com.

On May 19, 1924, a duet between a young cellist and a male nightingale was broadcast across the British Commonwealth as far away as Canada, India, and Australia to over one million listeners. It was an unprecedented collective experience made possible by the invention of the radio and a new microphone that picked up sounds of nature. Hardcover: 9781682637272 PURCHASE

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Nora Nickum writes books for children about nature and STEM topics and leads ocean conservation work at the Seattle Aquarium. She is the author of the middle-grade nonfiction book Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest, about the toothed whales’ plight and the people working to help them recover, as well as the picture book This Book Is Full of Holes, illustrated by Robert Meganck.

Follow a dozen brave gray whales in search of food as they take a high-risk, high-reward 170-mile detour off their already grueling migration route to the Arctic. Hardcover: 9781536234701 PURCHASE

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Karen M. Greenwald is the author of Mud Angels and A Vote for Susanna, which was a Kansas 2022 Notable Book and represented Kansas at the Library of Congress National Book Festival and in the Great Reads from Great Places initiative. She cofounded the #SunWriteFun writing contest, which raises money for kidlit charities, and her strategic branding efforts have earned seventeen international awards, including a Platinum International Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award in 2023. Karen shares her Maryland office with a very noisy dog. For more information, visit: www.karengreenwald.com. 

A child plants a tiny seed and wonders what secrets it might hold. As it grows and grows and grows, she nurtures the little plant until it isn’t so little anymore—in fact, it’s COLOSSAL. What does one do with a colossal cabbage? The girl dreams that the cabbage feeds a soup kitchen full of neighbors, inspiring her to grow more veggies to share with her community, inspiring kids and families all over the country to grow veggies to share with their own communities. And when she wakes up, she is ready let the world in on the cabbage’s colossal secret. Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage, and the nonprofit Katie’s Krops. Hardcover: 9781668955154 PURCHASE

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