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Look for these two excellent new children's science books exploring the worlds of carbon and the rain forest! @jenswanbooks.bsky.social @mstewartscience.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/10/n...
New science books
From Bam! to Burp!: A Carbon Atom’s Never-Ending Journey Through Space and Time and You! by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Marta Alvarez Miguens (Charlesbridge, 40 pages, grades 1-4). The st…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Look for these two excellent new children's science books exploring the worlds of carbon and the rain forest! @jenswanbooks.bsky.social @mstewartscience.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/10/n...
The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
An email alerting me to the upcoming Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony coming up this Thursday, November 6, sent me on a search for some of the books that I hadn’t read yet. You can see …
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Two new graphic novels with girl power! @aimeelucido.bsky.social @versifybooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/03/g...
Graphic novels with girl power
Words Apart by Aimee Lucido, illustrated by Phillippa and Rachael Corcutt (Versify, 394 pages, grades 4-7). Olive is the younger sister who shares a love of words with her linguist dad. Maddie is t…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Two new graphic novels with girl power! @aimeelucido.bsky.social @versifybooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/03/g...
Two beautiful new picture books create stories within stories that celebrate Tlingit and Ojibwe cultures. @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @heathermoconnor.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/25/t...
Two stories within stories that celebrate Indigenous cultures
Moon Song by Michaela Goade (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 40 pages, ages 4-8). In this companion to Berry Song, the Tlingit family that gathered berries in the summer enjoys winter on the…
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October 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Two beautiful new picture books create stories within stories that celebrate Tlingit and Ojibwe cultures. @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @heathermoconnor.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/25/t...
Two new picture books with aliens and monsters that will make you laugh! @geckopress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/22/t...
Two monster books to make you laugh
To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here by Antoinette Portis (Neal Porter Books, 56 pages, ages 4-8). Opening the front cover of the book takes readers immediately to a space portal that is opening up …
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October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Two new picture books with aliens and monsters that will make you laugh! @geckopress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/22/t...
Three new feel-good picture books! @jenniferkmann.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/19/t...
Three feel-good picture books
The House That Floated by Guojing (Random House Studio, 40 pages, ages 4-8). A couple lives in a small house perched on the edge of a cliff. Wordless pages show them enjoying their home and the sea…
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October 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Three new feel-good picture books! @jenniferkmann.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/19/t...
Some new early reader graphic novels: two mysteries and possibly the weirdest book ever! @exocomics.com @andrewsmcmeelkids.bsky.social @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/14/e...
Early reader graphic novels: two mysteries and quite possibly the weirdest book ever!
Cabin Head and Tree Head by Scott Campbell (Tundra Books, 88 pages, grades K-4). Obviously, Cabin Head is a creature with a cabin on his head, complete with a family inside and smoke coming out of …
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October 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Some new early reader graphic novels: two mysteries and possibly the weirdest book ever! @exocomics.com @andrewsmcmeelkids.bsky.social @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/14/e...
How did we get to this point in history? You'll find some answers in these two new young adult books about how history has been told to get us here. @clintsmithiii.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/09/r...
Rewriting the history books
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War and Rewrote History by Ann Bausum (Roaring Brook Press, 368 pages, grades 9 and up). Beginning with a list of the 20 lies covered in this book from “Sla…
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October 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
How did we get to this point in history? You'll find some answers in these two new young adult books about how history has been told to get us here. @clintsmithiii.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/09/r...
Two new graphic novels explore a year in the life of a middle schooler @jessixabagley.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/06/a...
A year in the life of a middle schooler
Dear Jackie by Jessixa Bagley, illustrated by Aaron Bagley (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 288 pages, grades 4-7). Jackie and Milo are best friends, born on the same day and growing up…
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October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Two new graphic novels explore a year in the life of a middle schooler @jessixabagley.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/06/a...
What the past can teach us about climate change and the current political situation @yasimamura.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @cylev.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/03/l...
Learning from the past
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura (Random House, 304 pages, grades 5-8). As he did in The Mona Lisa Vani…
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October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
What the past can teach us about climate change and the current political situation @yasimamura.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @cylev.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/03/l...
All kinds of interesting takes on fairy tales @johnpicacio.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @melissadassori.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/01/f...
Fairy tales
The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 60 pages, grades 3-6). There’s a party planned for the evening, but Cala doesn’…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
All kinds of interesting takes on fairy tales @johnpicacio.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @melissadassori.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/01/f...
A picture book mystery that turns out to be a sweet friendship story, and a new chapter book by Katherine Applegate perfect for elementary book clubs. @kaaauthor.bsky.social @alexggriffiths.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/29/a...
Animal friendships
Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel and Friends, 272 pages, grades 3-7). Zephrynia is a cat who likes to “rescue” (some would say steal) items tha…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A picture book mystery that turns out to be a sweet friendship story, and a new chapter book by Katherine Applegate perfect for elementary book clubs. @kaaauthor.bsky.social @alexggriffiths.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/29/a...
Discover Interlink Publishing and their children's and YA books about Palestine. @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social @interlinkbooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/28/i...
Interlink Publishing and books about Palestine
Last weekend, I headed into Northampton, Massachusetts for the Read and Resist Fest at Interlink Publishing. Described as a “social justice and literary festival dedicated to collective liberation,…
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September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Discover Interlink Publishing and their children's and YA books about Palestine. @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social @interlinkbooks.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/28/i...
You'll see double--or quadruple--in these two fun middle grade novels that celebrate Taylor Swift, the Parent Trap, and the power of friendship and family. @jencalonita kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/23/t...
Two (or more) of a kind
The Taylors by Jen Calonita (Scholastic, 224 pages, grades 3-6). Taylor, a.k.a. Teffy, is nervous about starting fifth grade, which is at the middle school. She’s surprised and delighted to discove…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
You'll see double--or quadruple--in these two fun middle grade novels that celebrate Taylor Swift, the Parent Trap, and the power of friendship and family. @jencalonita kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/23/t...
What could be more timely than these two inspiring books that tell the stories of women creating and saving art, bringing light to a dark world. @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social @erinmcguire.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/25/c...
Courageous women of World War II
The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis by Erin McGuire (Beach Lane Books, 40 pages, grades 2-5). Rose Valland loved art. As curator of Paris’s Jeu de Paume Museum, s…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What could be more timely than these two inspiring books that tell the stories of women creating and saving art, bringing light to a dark world. @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social @erinmcguire.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/25/c...
Christmas fact and Christmas fiction! @adamrex.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/19/c...
Christmas fact and Christmas fiction
The Giving Flower: The Story of the Poinsettia by Alda P. Dobbs, illustrated by Emily Mendoza (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 40 pages, grades K-3, published simultaneously in Spanish as La flor generosa…
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September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Christmas fact and Christmas fiction! @adamrex.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/19/c...
Some creepy fun from two well-known authors. @erinentrada.bsky.social @peterbrownstudio.com kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/15/a...
A ghostly vacation and a creepy operation
The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly (Scholastic Press, 240 pages, grades 4-7). When Lila’s Grandpa Clem dies, leaving an old inn to her father, the whole family has to leave their home in P…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Some creepy fun from two well-known authors. @erinentrada.bsky.social @peterbrownstudio.com kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/15/a...
Two series starters for early chapter book readers! @karalareau.bsky.social @toondoon1010.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/13/e...
Early chapter books
Sweet Magic (Witchycakes #1) by Kara LaReau, illustrated by Ariane Moreira (Random House Books for Young Readers, 80 pages, grades 1-4). Young witch Blue is still working on their magical powers, b…
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September 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Two series starters for early chapter book readers! @karalareau.bsky.social @toondoon1010.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/13/e...
Two picture books show how family and community can help kids through tough times. @nancyrosep.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/09/s...
Surviving tough times
The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Books, 32 pages, grades 1-5). When a hailstorm destroys their crops, Junior and his family are fo…
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September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Two picture books show how family and community can help kids through tough times. @nancyrosep.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/09/s...
The miracle of sunflowers as seen through the eyes of a kindergartner and poems that have all kinds of things writing letters to each other! @joycesidman.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/07/s...
Science and nature
Sunflower Seeds by Ellen Heck (Levine Querido, 48 pages, ages 4-8). A boy tells of his adventures growing sunflowers, starting when his kindergarten teacher reads a book about them near the end of …
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September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The miracle of sunflowers as seen through the eyes of a kindergartner and poems that have all kinds of things writing letters to each other! @joycesidman.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/07/s...
I'm always happy to find books featuring younger elementary protagonists, like the third- and fourth-graders in these new titles. @shannonhale.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/05/e...
Elementary heroines
Dream On by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Marcela Cespedes (Roaring Brook Press, 240 pages, grades 3-6). Fourth-grader Cassie has a lot of big emotions as she navigates the difficult terrain of grow…
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September 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I'm always happy to find books featuring younger elementary protagonists, like the third- and fourth-graders in these new titles. @shannonhale.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/05/e...
Two new middle grade science fiction graphic novels! @nicolemillo.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/01/s...
Sci Fi graphic novels
Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem by John Claude Bemis, illustrated by Nicole Miles (Holiday House, 272 pages, grades 4-7). Sidney Poblocki is trying to convince his best friend Walt to try…
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September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Two new middle grade science fiction graphic novels! @nicolemillo.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/01/s...
Animals tell their stories in these two new nonfiction books. @marziehabbas.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/29/a...
Animals tell their stories
The Camel Library: A True Story from Pakistan by Marzieh Abbas, illustrated by Anain Shaikh (Feiwel and Friends, 32 pages, grades K-3). Rashad the Camel narrates his story, beginning with his early…
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August 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Animals tell their stories in these two new nonfiction books. @marziehabbas.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/29/a...
With Halloween just ahead, here are two picture books with creepy characters that won't scare anyone! @andreazuill.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/24/c...
Creepy characters that won’t scare anyone
Aggie and the Ghost by Matthew Forsythe (Simon and Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 64 pages, ages 4-8). Aggie is happy to be living on her own for the first time, and then the ghost arrives. Not only…
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August 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
With Halloween just ahead, here are two picture books with creepy characters that won't scare anyone! @andreazuill.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/24/c...
Two very different takes on the Cinderella story. @shanakeller.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social @underwoodwriter.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/22/c...
Cinderella stories
CeeCee: Underground Railroad by Shana Keller, illustrated by Laura Freeman (Charlesbridge, 32 pages, grades 1-5). Cecelia, or CeeCee for short, knows that her real name is different, a name that sh…
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August 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Two very different takes on the Cinderella story. @shanakeller.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social @underwoodwriter.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/08/22/c...