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ALL ORDERS ARE DUE BY APRIL 6, 2021 Please e-mail [email protected] with any questions. Bryan Collier Trombone Shorty – - $19.25 Hey Black Child- It's Shoe Time- Hardcover- $20.25 Hardcover- $10.75 Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy This lyrical, empowering poem This lyrical “Trombone Shorty” celebrates black children and beginning-reader Andrews got his seeks to inspire all young people by multi award- nickname by wielding to dream big and achieve their winning artist a trombone twice as goals. Bryan Collier long as he was high. A prodigy, he was turns the closet leading his own band by age six, and today this on its heel and Grammy-nominated artist headlines the redefines what it legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest. Here, follow means to be a Andrews as he fulfills his dream of becoming a pair. Beautifully rendered art musician, despite the odds, and becomes an paired with rich, rhyming dialog international star. Trombone Shorty is a celebration of the rich cultural history of New creates a powerful Orleans and the power of music. experience. Martin's Big Words- - $8.50 All Because You Matter Five O'Clock Band- Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Martin Luther King, Tami Charles Jr., was one of the pens a poetic, After letting his most influential and lyrical text that band down by gifted speakers of all is part love missing time. Doreen letter, part rehearsal, Shorty Rappaport uses anthem, has some serious quotes from some of assuring questions about his most beloved readers that what it means to speeches to tell the they always be a leader. He story of his life and have, and always will, matter. This hits the streets of his work in a simple, direct way. Bryan Collier's powerful lullaby reassures readers that New Orleans to find some answers and stunning collage art combines remarkable their matter and their worth is never soak up inspiration. Along the way he’ll watercolor paintings with vibrant patterns and diminished, no matter the circumstance: meet street musicians, a favorite textures. A timeline and a list of additional through the joy and wonder of their first restaurant owner, and the famous Mardi books and web sites help make this a standout steps and first laughs, through the Gras Indians. Each has some NOLA- biography of Dr. King. hardship of adolescent struggles, and bred wisdom to share with Shorty about the pain and heartbreak of current being an artist, a leader, and a friend. events, they always have, and always will, matter. By and By Rosa Hardcover- $19.25 Paperback- $9.75 At a time when most African Americans were Fifty years after still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. her refusal to give His childhood was far from easy, with up her seat on a backbreaking hours in the fields, and no Montgomery, opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he Alabama, city bus, heard as he worked made him long to know Mrs. Rosa Parks is how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of still one of the newspapers. From those small scraps, young most important figures in the Charles raised himself to become a founding American civil rights movement. father of American gospel music” Told in lilting This picture- book tribute to Mrs. verse with snippets of spirituals and Tindley’s Parks is a celebration of her own hymns woven throughout, Carole Boston courageous action and the events Weatherford’s lyrical words and Bryan Collier’s that followed. luminous pictures celebrate a man whose music and conviction has inspired countless lives. John Hendrix Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Paperback- $8.50 Riddles- Paperback- $14.00 Certain Death- Hardcover- $19.25 The year is 1816. Abe is only seven Fourteen-year-old Ronan Ronan Boyle may be years old, and his Boyle is the youngest the youngest and pal, Austin Gollaher, and lowliest recruit to the lowliest recruit to the is ten. Abe and secret Garda, an Irish secret Garda, but he’s Austin decide to police force that handles determined to save journey down to the misdeeds of his captain from the Knob Creek. The numerous magical harpy that dragged water looks scary and deep, and Austin points creatures. Ronan’s her into Tir Na Nog. out that they don’t know how to swim. parents are in jail, but Ronan is He may be the Nevertheless, they decide to traverse it. I won’t convinced that they were framed by the captain’s only hope—if he can escape tell you what happens, but let’s just say that wee people. So, despite his small size, man-eating elves, escape a job in a our country wouldn’t be the same if Austin poor eyesight, and social awkwardness, unicorn’s lounge act, and find the hadn’t been there to help his friend. he’s determined to learn all he can in the captain before she’s sacrificed to a Garda in order to prove his parents’ spooky cult trying to resurrect its leader. innocence. Go and Do Likewise- Hardcover- $20.25 McToad Mows Tiny Island Faithful Spy Hardcover- $18.25 Paperback- $18.25 Through parables of Every other day Adolf Hitler’s Nazi the good Samaritan of the week, party is gaining and the prodigal son, McToad mows Big strength and the lost sheep and Island, but on becoming more the beatitudes, Jesus Thursdays, menacing every day. taught his disciples McToad mows Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the redeeming power Tiny Island. To do a pastor upset by of sacrificial love and so, he puts his the complacency of showed mercy to everyone around him— mower on the the German church, especially the sick, the poor, and the back of a truck, which drives to a train, forms a breakaway church to speak out downtrodden. which goes to a helicopter, which flies to against the established political and In this inspirational and richly illustrated book, a boat, which uses a crane to put the religious authorities. When the Nazis John Hendrix brings to life the wisdom of lawn mower onto Tiny Island. There outlaw the church, he escapes as a Jesus. Interweaving hand lettering with his McToad mows and drinks some fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith signature, award-winning art style, Hendrix lemonade, and before you know it, it’s and the teachings of the Bible with the captures the spirit of Jesus’s timeless time to turn around and go back home. Nazi Party’s evil agenda, Bonhoeffer message that will resonate with readers of any This playful narrative treasures the decides that Hitler must be stopped by Christian faith. journey over the destination. any means possible! Nurse, Soldier, Spy- Paperback- $10.75 Miracle Man- Hardcover- $20.25 Shooting at the Stars Hardcover- $20.25 This is the incredible true story Miracle Man is a In a letter home to his of Sarah Emma Edmonds. beautifully illustrated mother, a young When she was 19, Sarah cut biography of Jesus British soldier her hair, donned her brother’s Christ by award- describes an clothes, and fled from Canada, winning author and unforgettable where her father wanted her to illustrator John Christmas Eve. marry an elderly gentleman. In the U.S., she Hendrix. For all Despite fierce fighting earlier from both went by the name Frank Thompson and joined Christian denominations and perfect for sides, Allied and German soldiers the Army to fight the Confederates. She was a families to share throughout the year. ceased firing and came together on the nurse working on the battlefield when, This book freshly reinterprets some of battlefield to celebrate the holiday. They because of her heroism, she was asked to the oldest and best-known stories in sang carols, exchanged gifts, and even serve as a spy. At her death, Edmonds was human history and focuses on some of lit Christmas trees. But as the holiday buried in a military cemetery, in a plot reserved the many miracles that came to a close, they returned to their for Civil War veterans—the only woman to separate trenches to await orders for have this honor. the war to begin again.

Gordon Korman Masterminds- Paperback- $8.50 Notorious- Hardcover- $18.25 Pop- Paperback- $10.75

Eli Frieden has never Keenan lives on a When Marcus Jordan moves left Serenity, New strange island named to a new town over the Mexico. Then one day, Centerlight Island next to summer, he doesn’t know a soul. While practicing he bikes to the edge of an even stranger football for impending the city limits and neighbor named tryouts, he strikes up an something happens that ZeeBee. ZeeBee is unlikely friendship with a changes everything. As convinced that her middle-aged man. Charlie is him and his friends beloved dog was a charismatic prankster – investigate further they murdered. ZeeBee and also the best football player Marcus has find that the clues connect their ideal enlists Keenan’s help to solve the ever seen. Marcus can’t believe his luck crime-free community to some of the mystery. The good news is that Keenan when he finds out that Charlie is actually Charlie Popovich, of “The King of Pop,” as greatest criminal masterminds ever may have found the best friend he’s ever he had been nicknamed during his career as known. The kids realize they can trust no had. The bad news is that the stakes are an NFL linebacker. one—least of all their own parents. sky-high and now someone is after them. But that’s not all. There’s a secret about Charlie that his family is desperate to hide… Ungifted- Paperback- $8.50 Unplugged- Hardcover- $18.25 Unteachables- Paperback- $8.50 When Donovan Curtis pulls a major prank Jett Baranov has The Unteachables are a notorious class at his middle school, he gets mistakenly always gotten what of misfits, delinquents, and academic sent to the Academy of Scholastic he wanted. So when train wrecks. They Distinction, a special program for gifted he gets dropped off have been removed and talented students. The ASD turns out at a place called the from the student body to be an unexpected Oasis, Jett can’t and isolated in room hideout for someone believe it. He’s 117. Their teacher is like him. But as the forced to hand over Mr. Zachary Kermit, students and his cell phone and the most burned-out teachers of ASD grow participate in teacher in all of to realize that wholesome activities Greenwich. The Donovan may not be with the other kids Unteachables never good at math or whom he has absolutely no interest in thought they’d find a science (or just about hanging out with. As the weeks go on, teacher who had a worse attitude than anything), he shows Jett starts to get used to the unplugged they did. And Mr. Kermit never thought that his gifts may be life and even bonds with the other kids. he would actually care about teaching exactly what the ASD But he can’t help noticing that the adults again. Over the course of a school year, students never knew they needed. at the Oasis are acting really strange… though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction—and maybe even a shot at redemption. War Stories- Hardcover- $19.25 Restart- Paperback- $7.50 Slacker - $8.50 Trevor loves playing war- based video games and his Chase’s memory Cameron Boxer and great-grandfather Jacob, has vanished. He his friends invent a who is a war hero, more wakes up in a fake school club that than anything else. When hospital room and will make it seem Jacob decides to retrace the suddenly has to like they're doing steps he took during the war learn his whole good deeds instead -- from training to invasion to life all over again . of slacking off. The the village he is said to have saved, . . starting with his problem? Some kids Trevor readily agrees to go with him. But own name. Pretty think the club is real- as they get to the village, Trevor discovers soon, it's not only -and Cameron is there's more to the story than what he's a question of who stuck being president. The guy who heard his whole life, causing him to Chase is -- it's a never cared about anything is now at wonder about his great-grandfather's question of who the center of everything . . . and it's heroism, the truth about the battle he he was . . . and going to take all his slacker skills to win fought, and importance of genuine valor. who he's going to be. this round. Peter Lerangis Throwback #1: Throwback Throwback #2: The Chaos Loop Throwback #3: Out of Time Paperback- $8.50 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Corey Fletcher has an active Ever since Corey Fletcher Thirteen-year-old Corey imagination. He sees things found out that he’s the Fletcher is the world’s first no one else does. Cracks world’s first “throwback,” with Throwback. He has the jokes no one else gets. And the power to not only visit power to not only to travel goes places few would ever history, but change it, he’s back in time, but to change dare go. Like the past. All he been spending as much time the past. It’s a power that needs is a metal artifact from in the past as possible. Corey comes with no small amount a point in time, and Corey can go there. loves using his skills to fix problems and of responsibility—but when Corey tried fix Although hundreds of time travelers live in help his friends and family. But as Corey some of history’s worst evils, he discovers secret throughout the world, including becomes more and more addicted to that the consequences for his good deeds Corey's own grandfather, none has the rewriting history, he learns that time travel have changed him in ways that he never ability to change past events. But when might change him in ways he may never be expected and ways he may not be able to Corey accidentally saves a life while time able to reverse. Aware now that he can’t fix. Trapped in a body that’s not his own, traveling, he realizes that he is the first- keep going into the past forever, Corey his powers all but gone, Corey realizes his ever “Throwback,” with the power to alter decides to use the trips he still has to latest mission may be the hardest of all— life as we know it. Which means his own change history in the most meaningful way to save himself. life is now in all sorts of danger. he can imagine: by stopping Adolf Hitler. Max Tilt #1: Fire The Depths Max Tilt #2: 80 Days or Die Seven Wonders #1: The Colossus Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Rises Hardcover- $19.25 When thirteen-year-old When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his Max Tilt stumbled across Percy Jackson meets great-great-great- his great-great-great- Indiana Jones in master grandfather Jules Verne's grandfather Jules Verne’s storyteller Peter unfinished, unpublished unfinished, unpublished Lerangis’s epic Seven manuscript, The Lost manuscript, The Lost Wonders series. Treasures, he doesn't Treasures, he thought he Jack McKinley is an realize that he's found the had the answer to all his ordinary kid with an answers to all his problems, but nothing in extraordinary problem. In problems and that the book holds the key life is ever that easy. With his mom’s illness a few months, he’s going to something incredibly valuable. A getting worse again, Max needs to figure to die—unless he finds seven magic treasure that can maybe save his entire out a way to save his family—now more Loculi that have been hidden in the Seven family. than ever. So Max and his cousin Alex Wonders of the Ancient World. revisit The Lost Treasures, and they find a clue that just might be the key to a cure. Seven Wonders #2: Lost in Babylon 39 Clues #3: The Sword Thief Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $15.00 Hardcover- $17.25 Jack McKinley and his ATTENTION! Amy and Ben lives a charmed friends as they carry on Dan Cahill have been life—effortlessly landing their mission to save their located once again, this the lead in the high lives—and the world—by time in the company of school musical, dating the locating seven magic orbs the notoriously unreliable prettiest girl in school. called Loculi, which are Alistair Oh. Could they When he decides to enlist hidden in the Seven have been foolish enough in the army, no one thinks Wonders of the Ancient to make an alliance? he’ll be in real danger. World. After defeating the Spies report that Amy But his decision has devastating Colossus of Rhodes and capturing the first and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one consequences: His convoy gets caught in of the Loculi, their friend Marco has of the most powerful fighters the world has an explosion, and Ben ends up in a coma disappeared. With no leads, no clues, and ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a for two months. When he wakes up, he no one else to turn to, the kids have no Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well- doesn’t know where he is—or remember choice but to trust Professor Bhegad and guarded . . . and the price to uncover them anything about his old life. His family and the Karai Institute again as they head off to just might be lethal. friends mourn what they see as a loss, but Babylon. Ben perseveres.

Steve Light Up Cat Down Cat- Have You Seen My Dragon? Swap! Hardcover- $18.25 Board Book- $8.50 Hardcover- $18.25 Black cat. White In the heart of the An old ship. A sad friend. A button cat. One is long, city, among the taxis and towers, a small . . . An idea. Let’s SWAP! stretching out, boy travels uptown In a young scalawag's first tale of and the other is and down, searching bartering, a peg-legged youngster short, crouching. for his friend. sets out to When both perch Readers will certainly help his in a window, one spot the glorious tail is straight, the beast, plus an array of big-city icons they captain other one curly. can count (numbers 1-20). repair his With a mouse to Have You Seen My Monster? vessel. One entertain them, variously lost and found, Hardcover- $18.25 button for they move through the day, until one cat is A little girl gallivants three awake and the other asleep, but for how through a county fair, teacups. long? With enchanting ink illustrations full searching for her SWAP! furry friend. Readers of pure color, simple shapes, and an Two teacups for four coils of rope. elegant use of negative and positive will surely spot the SWAP! And so it goes, until the space, this concept board book for the friendly monster as well as twenty youngest of readers is a joy to behold — little swashbuckler secures sails, shapes, identified here by their proper anchors, a ship’s wheel, and more and as graceful as a leaping cat. names—trapezoids, ellipses, kites, and more—hidden among iconic fair attractions . . . including a happy friend. from the fun house to the Ferris wheel. Lucky Lazlo- Hardcover- $18.25 Zephyr Takes Flight Road Trip Whiskers Hollow Lazlo is in love. Hardcover- $18.25 Hardcover- $18.25 He selects the Zephyr is a girl who loves airplanes. When Bear’s old truck needs a new perfect red rose She draws pictures headlight, there’s just one thing to do: and sets off to the of them, makes them organize a road trip to Elephant’s Old theater to present out of paper, builds Junk Tree to find it to his beloved, them out of junk, and a new one. Bear an actress hopes one day to fly brings along currently starring one of her own. But Rabbit, who in Alice in Wonderland. When a naughty when Gramma, wants cat snatches the flower, Lazlo gives Daddy, and Mom are assurances that chase. Through the stage door, round and too busy to play there will be round backstage, through the orchestra pit airplane with her, Zephyr’s excess snacks; timid, they go, wreaking havoc along the way. enthusiasm gets her sent to her room cautious Mouse; and ever-positive Readers are treated to an array of — where she discovers a secret door Donkey. After a day of adventure and delightful characters from Lewis Carroll’s that leads to the most wondrous place misadventure, will the four friends find classic. she’s ever seen! what they need? Builders and Breakers Have You Seen My Lunchbox? Mama Tiger Tiger Cub Hardcover- $18.25 Board Book- $7.50 Board Book- $8.50 When their dad Mama Tiger forgets his lunch swims up a box on his way to zigzag river full of the construction slippery fish, site, a young climbs onto a brother and sister shady branch of a set out to take it to big tree, and follows a bird into him, and along their way witness all the It’s almost time for school, and one fragrant flowers. What is Mama Tiger noisy, exciting action of a build site in the small boy’s things are strewn all over. looking for? And what will she do once city. With builders building, breakers Can he collect everything he needs in she finds it? In this companion to the breaking, and a whole host of impressive time to hop on the bus? Among the celebrated board book Black Bird machines and vehicles hard at work, this missing items are some pink socks, a Yellow Sun, Steve Light explores the book bursts with color and offers children purple robot, a green book, and more, sights of the outside world. plenty to enjoy. all waiting to be spotted. Daniel Miyares Come Next Season Pardon Me! Night Out Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $21.50 Hardcover- $19.25 A gorgeous picture It’s a beautiful, When a small, book that celebrates sunny day in friendless boy the magic of the the swamp goes to bed at his seasons and the joys when a little boarding school, of family. Every yellow bird an adventure is season is full of its settles down on about to begin! own magic, every a rock—only to First he finds an change brings new be interrupted invitation in his excitement, and as first a heron, then a frog, then a turtle's bowl. Next every experience is turtle ask to sit on the rock with him. he makes an escape--out the window, better when it’s shared. With poetic text As each animal says “pardon me,” the through the woods, across a river, and from bestselling author Kim Norman, little bird’s replies get grumpier. When onto an island. And then he joins a brought to life by critically acclaimed a fox comes by, the bird finally loses grand celebration, with larger-than-life illustrator Daniel Miyares, Come Next his cool. But it just so happens that fox animals serving tea and dancing late Season is a celebration of nature, showed up for a reason, and the little into the night. And finally? After the adventure, and family―all year round. bird’s outburst leads to a surprise journey back, he has a fantastic story ending you’ll want to read again and to tell--the perfect way to make a again. friend. Night Walk to the Sea That is My Dream! Bring Me a Rock! Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $20.50 "I'm not afraid!" shouts “Dream Variation,” Roger when he hears one of Langston When a power- thunder outside...but Hughes's most hungry he is afraid. When the celebrated poems, grasshopper king storm quiets, his aunt about the dream of wants a throne to Rachel decides to take a world free of loom over his bug him on a walk to see the beauty of the discrimination and racial prejudice, is subjects, he natural world at night. On the way they now a stunningly summons each of them to “bring me a discover many marvels--a screech owl illustrated by Daniel Miyares. Follow rock!” One by one, the bugs bring him calling to its mate, ghost crabs tunneling one African-American boy through the the biggest rocks they can carry, but in the sand, and most incredibly, the course of his day as the harsh reality one little bug can contribute only a luminous life that lights up the water. of segregation and racial prejudice very small pebble. The grasshopper When they find a tiny firefly who has lost comes into vivid focus. But the boy king shuns the little bug. But when his its way, they bring it home and release it dreams of a different life—one full of throne is in danger of tipping, that little back into the woods. At last, Rachel tucks freedom, hope, and wild possibility, bug might be the only one who can Roger into bed, telling him he is "nature's where he can fling his arms wide in the save him. brave protector." face of the sun. Float- Hardcover- $19.25 Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity That Neighbor Kid Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 A little boy In 1887 in India, a There’s a new boy in takes a boat boy named the neighborhood, made of Ramanujan is born and he’s up to newspaper with a passion for something very curious. His next out for a numbers. He sees numbers door neighbor, a girl rainy-day everywhere. He his age with two long adventure. writes mathematics braids, peeps around The boy and his boat dance in the with his finger in corners and watches as he scavenges downpour and play in the puddles, but the sand, across the pages of his wood from the fence between their houses, when the boy sends his boat floating notebooks, and with chalk on the temple drags around a hammer and a bucket of down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away floor. Head in the clouds, Ramanujan nails, and reads a book about living in from him. So of course the little boy goes struggles in school. As he grows up though, trees. When she finally works up the courage to say “hi,” she finds herself invited on the hunt for his beloved boat—and Ramanujan reinvents much of modern mathematics, but where in the world could to help build the private getaway every child when the rain lets up, he finds himself on he find someone to understand what he has has dreamed of: a tree house. She also a new adventure altogether. conceived? finds herself with a new best friend. Sherri Duskey Rinker Mighty Mighty Construction Site Goodnight Goodnight Construction Three Cheers for Kid McGear! Hardcover- $18.25 Site- Hardcover- $18.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Down in the big She might be construction site, the As the sun small, but crew faces their sets behind she's got it biggest job yet, and all—she's Kid will need the help of the big McGear, Skid new construction construction friends to get it done. site, all the Steer! Kid Working as a team, there's nothing they hardworking McGear is the newest truck can't do! trucks get to join the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Mission: ready to say goodnight. One by Demolition – Hardcover- $19.25 Construction Site crew, and she's one, Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, eager to help with even the Dump Truck, Bulldozer, and roughest and toughest construction Demolition is tough Excavator finish their work and lie work. But when a steep cliff puts the work, but these down to rest—so they'll be ready other trucks in danger, can the new powerful vehicles are up for another day of rough and to the task—and once Kid on the site prove she's big the job is done, there tough construction play! enough for even this big, big job? will be a freshly cleared and tidy construction site ready for building something new. How to Put an Octopus to Bed It’s So Quiet Revver the Speedway Squirrel Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $18.25 It's time for bed It's time for bed, Meet Revver: a little and this little but one little squirrel with big dreams . . . to drive a race car! octopus is more mouse just can't His siblings might not than happy to get to sleep. It's understand his need for volunteer! He's all TOO QUIET! But speed, but Revver ready to put his the night is full of doesn't care. And parents to bed! rhythmic sounds, he certainly doesn't care about looking Bath time, putting on pajamas, from the croak of for food, climbing trees, or any other "ordinary" squirrel activity. When brushing teeth, and tucking the bullfrog to the howl of a coyote on a distant hill. As the symphony of Revver finally gets the chance to sneak everyone in is a whole new nighttime sounds builds and builds out to the race track, he finds that challenge when the kid is in charge becoming part of the pit crew is more in this rollicking read-aloud, the difficult than he expected. Then Revver (and especially when everyone has mouse starts to wonder whether he eight arms!). meets tire changer Bill, who luckily has wouldn't like a little MORE quiet. a soft spot for animals. Can Revver prove to Bill that he deserves to be part of the team? Steam Train Dream Train 12 Sleighs of Christmas Celebrate You! Hardcover- $18.25 Hardcover- $18.25 Hardcover- $18.25 The dream train This charming pulls into the new picture station, and one by book one the train cars are loaded: polar celebrates all bears pack the the small but reefer car with ice important cream, elephants When the elves discover that Santa's milestones on fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises sleigh is in a terrible state, they let their the way to growing up, from the stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy imaginations go wild—and soon there first wobbly baby steps to the time kangaroos stuff the hopper car with balls. are sleighs of every kind, inspired by big when they’re ready to leave the Sweet and silly dreams are guaranteed for rigs, motorcycles, zeppelins, and much any budding train enthusiasts! nest. more! Grant Snider Blue Floats Away My Words Shape of Ideas Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $18.25 Little Blue lives at In this delightful romp through one little What does an the North Pole girl's discovery of words, readers meet idea look like? with his parents Ava—who asks: What was it like before I And where do until, one day, he had words? Grant Snider deftly follows they come from? floats away and the baby Grant Snider’s strikes out on his babbles, toddler illustrations will own. He soon questions, and motivate you to starts to get little kid explore these smaller and discoveries that questions, inspire smaller until . . . are the hallmarks you to come up he transforms! of how kids learn with your own After mixing with the warm ocean water, to "use their answers and, like Blue reappears as a cloud. He charts a words." all Gordian knots, prompt even more course for home. As it gets colder and questions. colder, Blue gets bigger and bigger until . . . hey, is that a snowflake? What Color Is Night What Sound is Morning I Will Judge You By Your Hardcover- $17.25 Hardcover- $17.25 Bookshelf This beautiful Hardcover- $18.25 Look closer. Grant Snider's beautiful companion It’s no secret, but we are judged by our debut picture book explores the to What Color bookshelves. We learn to read at an wonders—and Is early age, and colors—of Night? helps as we grow nighttime. For children older we shed night is not just explore and our beloved black and white. celebrate their books for new Ending in colors morning ones. But some yet unseen, and routines. At of us surround a night of sweet the first morning light, everything is quiet. ourselves with dreams, this Or is it? Listen. Grant Snider explores books. We lilting lullaby is the sounds—and silences—of morning. collect them, sure to comfort Ending in an inspiring call to action—to decorate with them, are inspired by those drifting off to sleep. toss off the covers, throw open the them, and treat our books as sacred window, and fill the world with your objects. Grant Snider explores song—this uplifting book is sure to help bookishness in all its forms, and the families feel ready to face the day. love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured on his website, Incidental Comics.

There is a Rainbow Hardcover- $17.25 Sometimes we are separated by distance, sometimes by the way we feel. Even though the world is full of barriers that can make us feel unconnected, we are all just on one end of a rainbow. Connected by all that color and light, there is always something, or someone, waiting for us on the other side. Poetically told with an uplifting message for some of life's most difficult moments, this book encourages readers to look past their immediate surroundings and find comfort, community, and inner courage—all are closer than we might think.

David Soman Three Bears in a Boat Agent Lion Agent Lion and the Case of the Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Missing Party- Hardcover- $19.25 Three bear siblings MS. FLAMINGO’S break their mother’s CAT, FLUFFY, IS Agent Lion is back, favorite blue seashell, MISSING…and and it’s PARTY and rather than tell there’s only one TIME! Petunia’s her, they decide to detective who can birthday is today, set out in their crack the case! and she’s got sailboat to find her a Meet Agent Lion— everything a new one. On their he works at Super birthday girl needs: quest they encounter salty sailors, strange Detective Agents Agency, wears a tiny An excited smile. The perfect bow. A new islands, huge whales, and vast seas blue hat, and loves jelly doughnuts. But big party. Wait . . . where is the party?! but no blue seashells. When a most importantly, he is determined to find It was just here a second ago! The treacherous storm suddenly blows in, the Fluffy. Agent Lion searches all over Mrs. balloons, streamers, and guests are all three bears find themselves tossed about Flamingo’s building—from Mr. Wombat’s gone!! In a mad dash to find it, Petunia in their little boat, far from Mama. What apartment to the top of the roof—and the calls the best detective in town, Agent will become of their search, and what will missing cat is nowhere to be found. Will Lion. Will Agent Lion find Petunia’s it take to bring them safely home? Agent Lion ever crack the case? celebration in time? Ladybug Girl Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee The Monster Next Door Hardcover- $19.25 Boy – Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 When Lulu puts on In a big field, a her ladybug costume, boy has a tree she becomes When Sam is house, and one Ladybug Girl, a Bumblebee Boy, day, he has a superhero who uses he likes to fly neighbor—a her imagination to alone, using his monster with a have adventures right imagination to talent for silly in her own backyard. battle dragons, dances and funny pirates, and tigers. faces. The two become fast friends, Sam’s little brother, Owen, would like to Ladybug Girl and the Best Ever even setting up a pulley line to pass play with him, but Owen doesn’t have a notes between their tree houses. The Playdate- Hardcover- $19.25 cape or a mask, and Bumblebee Boy boy knows just how to celebrate this doesn’t need his help. But when more invention—with music! But the Lulu is excited about her aliens than Bumblebee Boy can handle monster's tuba music is way too loud. playdate with Finny—and land on the moon, will he be able to Before the boy can think, he hurls a especially excited about defeat them by himself? Through their water balloon at his neighbor to get Finny’s Rolly-Roo. In fact, imaginary adventures, Sam and Owen him to stop. An epic water-balloon fight Lulu loves the toy so discover just how much fun a brother can ensues, until the boy—fed up, spent, much that she . . . kind of be, and learn that there are times to play done—cuts the pulley line. Can the forgets to play with Finny. So when the alone and times to play with others. boy and monster ever be friends girls accidentally break the Rolly-Roo, will again? Lulu realize her mistake? Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy Ladybug Girl At the Beach Ladybug Girl and the Rescue Dogs Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 At the playground, Lulu has never Lulu is excited to Lulu asks her friend been to the beach meet all the rescue Sam if he wants to but she knows she dogs when the pet- play with her. As is going to love adoption fair comes Ladybug Girl and it…until she sees to her local farmers' Bumblebee Boy, just how big and market. She wants to take all of them Lulu and Sam save loud the ocean is. home--but she already has Bingo, and the playground from hairy monsters and She and her dog Bingo decide that they Mama says one dog is enough for their big mean robots, and have their very own will make sandcastles, fly kites, and get family. That won’t stop them from parade on the bouncy dinosaurs. They ice cream instead of swimming. But then helping! figure out that when they work together, the ocean waves snatch Lulu’s favorite they can create fun games that they both pail. This is a job for Ladybug Girl! When Ladybug Girl Plush- like to play. Lulu is Ladybug Girl, she is brave and nothing can stop her and suddenly she is $17.25 in the ocean and its fun! Javaka Steptoe Radiant Child- Caldecott Medal In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall Hot Day on Abbott Avenue Hardcover- $20.25 Paperback- $10.75 Paperback- $8.50 Jean-Michel It's the hottest, Basquiat and stickiest day of the his unique, summer. A fat-sun- collage-style in-the-sky day. An paintings eating-ice-pops-on- rocketed to the-porch day. And fame in the for Kishi and 1980s as a Renée, it's a best- cultural phenomenon unlike friends-breakup day. Each girl sits on anything the art world had ever her own front porch, waiting for the seen. But before that, he was a little In this intergenerational of other to apologize, even though they boy who saw art everywhere. poetry by new and established know they'll never speak to each other Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold African American writers, again, no matter how bored they get. artwork introduce young readers to fatherhood is celebrated with honor, But then the sounds of feet slapping the powerful message that art humor, and grace. In Daddy's Arms the pavement and voices chanting doesn't always have to be neat or I Am Tall testifies to the powerful double-dutch rhymes drift up the clean--and definitely not inside the bond between father and child, avenue, and neither one can resist lines--to be beautiful. recognizing family as our greatest going out in the street to play. Can gift, and identifying fathers as being they ever forgive each other? among our most influential heroes. Jones Family Express Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow Paperback- $12.75 Hardcover- $19.25 Steven Jimi Hendrix was many things: a adores superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. listening to But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who stories about loved to draw and paint and listen to his Aunt records. A boy who played air guitar with a Carolyn's broomstick and longed for a real guitar of travels but his own. A boy who asked himself a has always question: Could someone paint pictures been too young to go on a trip with her. with sound? This a story of a talented When she plans a visit, Steven is child who learns to see, hear, and stumped over what kind of gift to give interpret the world around him in his own her. He finds the answer in an old toy unique way. It is also a story of a train, which he transforms into "The determined kid with a vision, who worked Jones Family Express," a movable hard to become a devoted and masterful family photo album Aunt Carolyn can artist.. take wherever she goes. Pocketful of Poems Do You Know What I’ll Do? Paperback- $8.50 Hardcover- $19.25 Tiana has a pocketful of words: One day a little girl green words like spring, night words said to her brother... like moon, and words with wings, Do you know what like angel. Each word is the I'll do at the seashore? I'll bring inspiration for a pair of poems— you a shell to hold one, lyrical free verse and the other, the sound of the haiku. sea. In a little girl's magical question-and- answer game, Charlotte Zolotow captures, with unerring childlike simplicity, a sister's special love for her little brother.

Jonathan Stutzman/Heather Fox Butts Are Everywhere Don’t Feed the Coos Llama Destroys the World Hardcover- $18.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Big ones, little ones, round ones and flat This is a cautionary tale that details the Meet Llama, the next great picture-book ones, furry ones and prickly ones- butts fallout when a little girl decides to share megastar, who has most definitely driven are everywhere, and each one is some bread with a coo (aka pigeon). a bus and who special! These powerful muscles make From the park to loves tacos way it possible for people and animals to home to the more than you. jump, sit, and everything in between. arcade to karate He also loves The gluteus really is practice, the coos cake, and that’s the maximus! This follow the where our story funny, sweet, and generous-but- begins. On commercial picture foolish girl who Monday, Llama book celebrates one didn’t heed the discovers a pile of our most useful warning. Because of cake, which (and hilarious) body when you give a coo a crumb…the entire he promptly eats. On Tuesday, Llama parts, and is sure to population of coos will come! But fret not: squeezes into his dancing pants, which he become a favorite our spunky little heroine will discover that promptly rips. The force of the rip creates read-aloud for even the biggest of problems can be a black hole (naturally).By Friday, Llama children and parents alike. solved with a little determination. will (indirectly) destroy the world. Llama Plush- $19.25 Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse DJ Funkyfoot Hardcover- $20.50 Hardcover- $16.00 Llama’s back and Meet DJ Funkyfoot! ready to destroy the He’s not actually a world AGAIN… this DJ—he’s a time with his best Chihuahua and a camelid, Alpaca! butler! Meet Llama loves ShrubBaby! She’s an cooking. And adorable baby shrub baking. And, above with a taste for thrills, all, eating. For breakfast, Llama makes fertilizer, and fame. one epic spread…as well as a big mess. Finding a butler gig is But Llama hates cleaning. hard these days, so So by lunch, Llama has cooked up DJ Funkyfoot takes a job that’s ALMOST something really devious―an idea!―and like being a butler . . . He becomes a by second lunch, Llama has cloned his nanny for ShrubBaby. A nanny might say most fastidious friend, Alpaca, to clean no to this baby’s whims, but a good butler his house. And Llama doesn’t stop at just always says yes. So when adventure calls one clone. By dinner, the alpaca clones and ShrubBaby says, “Let’s go!”, DJ threaten to tidy the world into utter Funkyfoot says, “Very good, m’lady, I’ll destruction―THE ALPACALYPSE IS fetch your stroller.” HERE! Tiny T Rex and the Impossible Hug Tiny T Rex and the Very Dark Dark Night is For Darkness Hardcover- $17.25 Hardcover- $17.25 Hardcover- $18.25 An Tiny T. Rex and The night is for unforgettable his friend Pointy darkness . . . and character are having a for surprising teaches a campout in the moonlit lesson in backyard! It is discoveries. This overcoming what best lyrical story obstacles: Tiny friends do. But celebrates the T. Rex has a without their wondrous beauty HUGE problem. nighty-lights, of the natural world His friend Pointy needs cheering up and the dark outside and the intimate only a hug will do. But with his short suddenly seems VERY dark . . . and very family moments we share each night. The stature and teeny T. Rex arms, is a hug full of spooky things. Good thing Tiny has Night Is for Darkness is a story full of impossible? Not if Tiny has anything to a super-secret plan to keep the dark at warmth and love—an ideal sendoff into say about it! bay! the land of dreams. Evan Turk A Thousand Glass Flowers Muddy You Are Home Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $20.50 Marietta and her Muddy Waters family lived on the was never good island of Murano, near at doing what he Venice, as all was told. When glassmakers did in the Grandma Della early . said the blues Her father was a true wouldn't put food master of glass. on the table,

Marietta longed to create gorgeous glass Muddy didn't listen. And when record In simple, soaring language and too, but glass was men’s work. One day producers told him no one wanted to breathtaking art, acclaimed author- her father showed her how to shape the listen to a country boy playing country illustrator Evan Turk has created a molten glass into a work of art, and blues, Muddy ignored them as well. stirring ode to nature and nation. Marietta was mesmerized. Marietta worked This tenacious streak carried Muddy From the rugged coast of Maine to until she created her own unique glass from the hardscrabble fields of the fiery volcanoes of Hawaii, You bead: the rosetta. The beautiful beads grew Mississippi to the smoky juke joints of Are Home reminds us that every popular around the world and became as Chicago and finally to a recording animal, plant, and person helps make valuable as gold. studio where a landmark record was made. Soon the world fell in love with this land a brilliant, beautiful the tough spirit of Muddy Waters. sanctuary of life. . Grandfather Gandhi Be the Change Heartbeat Hardcover- $20.50 Hardcover- $20.50 Hardcover- $19.25 Mahatma Gandhi’s At Grandfather grandson tells the story Gandhi’s service of how his grandfather village, the taught him to turn villagers vow to darkness into light in live simply and this uniquely personal non-violently. Arun and vibrantly illustrated Gandhi tries very tale that carries a hard to follow message of peace. One thick, hot day, these vows, but he struggles with one Arun Gandhi travels with his family to of the most important rules: not to Grandfather Gandhi’s village. Silence fills waste. How can wastefulness lead to This cinematic picture book from the air—but peace feels far away for young violence? With the help of his critically acclaimed author and Arun. When an older boy pushes him on grandfather, Arun learns how every illustrator Evan Turk follows the life of the soccer field, his anger fills him in a way wasteful act, no matter how small, a baby whale from birth, to song, to that surely a true Gandhi could never affects others. And in time he comes to silence, to a new song of compassion imagine. Can Arun ever live up to the understand the truth of his and hope for a brighter future. Mahatma? Will he ever make his grandfather’s words: “Be the change grandfather proud? you wish to see in the world.” The People’s Painter The Storyteller Hardcover- $20.50 Hardcover- $20.50 As an observant child Long ago the Kingdom of Morocco growing up in Lithuania, formed at the edge of the great, dry Ben Shahn yearns to Sahara. It had fountains of cool, draw everything he refreshing water to quench the thirst of sees—and, after seeing the desert, and storytellers to bring the his father banished by people together. But as the kingdom the Czar for demanding grew, the people forgot the dangers of workers’ rights, he the desert, and about the storytellers. develops a keen sense All but one young boy, who came to the of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of Great Square for a drink and found the his family make their way to America, Ben last storyteller. As he listened to the brings both his sharp artistic eye and his storyteller recount the Endless Drought, desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, and the Glorious Blue Water Bird, he he speaks for justice through his art. discovered the power of a tale well told.

Rahele Jomepour Bell Playdate Our Favorite Day of the Year Shape of Ideas Hardcover- $17.25 Hardcover- $19.25 Hardcover- $18.25 Me. You. One. Two. That's all Musa's feeling nervous about his first When a little girl outgrows her day of school. He's not used to being favorite book and it is donated it takes for the perfect away from home and he doesn't know to the , Book worries it playdate. With minimal, "just any of the other kids in his class. And will never be read again. It sits right" words and captivating, when he meets classmates Moisés, Mo, and Kevin, Musa isn't sure they'll alone and neglected on a charming illustrations, you have much in common. But over the library shelf, and one unlucky won't want to go home. course of the year, the four boys learn day, Book falls from its perch more about each other, the holidays and lands behind the shelf out they celebrate, their favorite foods, of sight. How will anyone find it and what they like about school. The now? more they share with each other, the closer they become, until Musa can't imagine any better friends. Young readers will delight in In this charming story of friendship following Book’s journey and and celebrating differences, young the chance encounter that readers can discover how entering a saves it from being forgotten. new friendship with an open mind and sharing parts of yourself brings people together. And the calendar of holidays at the end of the book will delight children as they identify special events they can celebrate with friends throughout the year.

Plum Creek Literacy Festival 25th Anniversary Memorabilia Items

Leather Journal with Plum Pencil Case- $6 Bandana- $8 Creek Logo Imprint on Cover $10

Christmas Ornament $6 Metal Water Bottle $20 Tote- $5

Pack of 25 Mini-Journals (ideal for a whole class) $6 for a pack of 25