Table of Contents

Lead Titles ...... 2

Picture Books ...... 12

Board Books ...... 26

Middle Grade Fiction ...... 39

Literature & Fiction ...... 45

Science, Nature & Technology...... 52

History ...... 62

Re­erence & Study Aids ...... 64

Unusual Facts ...... 71

Hobbies, Cra†s & Activities ...... 74

Humor ...... 88

Puzzles & Games ...... 90

Sports ...... 94

Family/Religion ...... 98

Backlist Highlights...... 100

Displays ...... 102

Awards ...... 104

Author Residence ...... 106

Index ...... 107

Gloria’s Voice The Story of Gloria Steinem— Feminist, Activist, Leader by Aura Lewis

Gloria Steinem started a movement that changed our world—and this picture-book biography, which ollows Steinem rom childhood through her political awakening and beyond, introduces young readers to the pioneering eminist leader. Using gorgeous watercolor illustrations by debut author Aura Lewis, Gloria’s Voice brings the message o equality to a new generation as it explains Steinem’s motivations and belies, as well as the obstacles she aced in ighting or women’s rights.

AURA LEWIS is an illustrator based in New York City. She is a recent graduate o the MFA program in the Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School o Visual Arts.

KEY SELLING POINTS Her mama had a dream once, too. She dreamt of leaving their small town and doing something big. She dreamt of Noniction story appeals to those looking or common being a journalist in New York City.

core material But as a wife and mother, Gloria’s mama has to stay homeand take care of their family. That’s what women areexpected to do. That’s just the way things are. High-interest material engages young readers Gloria thinks this is very unfair. Gorgeous artwork appeals to parents and kids alike

Young people—but especially girls—will ind inspiration in Gloria’s message o equality and the importance o believing When Gloria is ten years old, her parents decide to live But the hardest part is when her mama falls ill and can no in onesel in separate homes. They are very different, and longer look after Gloria or herself. Sometimes, it’s as if their differences make it hard for Gloria is the grown-up and her mama is the child. them to live together. Gloria Steinem biopic called My Lie on the Road, starring Deep down in her heart of hearts, Gloria misses her papa, Gloria wishes her mama had Julianne Moore, and An Uncivil War, starring Carey Mulligan, who travels far followed her dreams. for business. set to release in 2018

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3 A Couch ­or Llama by Leah Gilbert

The Lago amily really loves their couch. It’s perect or reading, snuggling, and playing. But all good things come to an end, and, one day, the amily must replace it. As they drive home with their new couch, though, it alls o© their car and into a ield . . . where a llama adopts it. Can the amily get its urniture back—and keep llama happy?

LEAH GILBERT is a greeting card designer rom Denver, CO. This is her debut book. You can see more o Leah’s work at leah-gilbert.com.

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Delightul illustrations appeal to kids and parents alike

Unique and charming story eatures a very adorable llama!

A warm picture book that touches both the heart and the unny bone

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4 I Am the Boss o­ this Chair by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by Marisa Morea

Oswald Minkleho© Honey Bunny III has always been top cat . . . until Pom Pom the kitten comes along. Suddenly Oswald isn’t the boss o everything anymore—not the toilet paper, ood dish, back door, toy mouse, or even his special chair. Will Oswald realize that everything’s better when you have a riend and that, really, there’s plenty o room on the chair to share?

CAROLYN CRIMI has published over a dozen picture books, including Boris and Bella (Houghton Mi°in Harcourt), Where’s My Mummy? (Candlewick), and Pugs in a Bug (Penguin). She lives in Evanston, IL. Find out more about Carolyn here: carolyncrimi.com.

MARISA MOREA is a reelance illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. She’s been working as an illustrator since graduating with an MA in Illustration rom Eina School in Barcelona in 2009.

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A un picture book with an important message about sharing and riendship that’s perect or children with new siblings

Colorul and humorous artwork that will engage young readers

A hilarious tale that all animal lovers will enjoy

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5 What’s on Your Plate? Exploring the World of Food by Whitney Stewart, illustrated by Christiane Engel

It’s a big, tasty world out there! What’s on Your Plate? takes kids on an illustrated tour through the cuisines o 14 countries to see how people internationally prepare, eat, and think about ood. For each cuisine, there’s an overview o the country and its native oods, pronunciations and descriptions o popular dishes, an easy recipe, and an illustrated crop map. These un elements Exploring the World of Food will excite young oodies! WHITNEY STEWART will travel ar or a story. She’s trekked in a 14 Recipes Included Himalayan snowstorm with Sir Edmund Hillary, interviewed the Dalai Lama in India, and visited Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma. She is the author o travel stories, multiple children’s books, and her new mindulness activity cards, Mindul Kids.

CHRISTIANE ENGEL is an award-winning illustrator and children’s book writer. Her work has also been applied to animated programs and puzzles one o which won a puzzle-o-the-year Cover not inal not Cover award. Christiane lives by the sea in South East England with her amily. KEY SELLING POINTS

A natural tie-in with diversity, since the book talks about people and ood rom around the world, including countries in South CHINA Chinese cuisine has been around for thousands of years and is tied to the importance of family in Chinese culture. Ancient recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, and almost all Chinese food can be traced back to one of China’s eight great America, Europe, Asia, and Arica cooking traditions. ese traditions share basic ingredients like garlic, ginger, scallions, and sesame oil, but they also have unique qualities. e Sichuan style is famous for its spice, which comes from chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns. e Quangdong style is known for dim sum, a brunch meal made up of small platters of food, usually either steamed or fried. e Jiangsu cooking style incorporates seafood in soups and stews, whereas Anhui POPULAR CHINESE FOODS cooking tends to call for forest herbs and bamboo shoots. Stir-fried dishes in Hunan are With 14 delicious recipes to try at home, there’s an interactive CHAR* SIU BAO (CHAR show bow): * known for being spicy and sour, whereas Fujian cooking is famous for seasoning food with steamed pork-lled buns fermented sh sauce and shrimp paste. Shandong chefs often serve wheat noodles and meat-lled buns, and nally, Zhejiang cooking is famous for its sweet desserts made from CONGEE (CON-gee): soupy rice breakfast dish sticky rice. Today Chinese families continue to cook and eat together, and by doing so, learning element involved! MAPO DOFU (MA-po DO-fu): spicy beef and keep their ancient food traditions alive. tofu dish

PEKING DUCK (PAY-king duck): roasted duck specialty SESAME NOODLES: WHEAT NOODLES This book is a great gi² or little ones as they begin to travel WITH A SALTY SESAME SAUCE (4 servings) INGREDIENTS and see di©erent parts o the world • 12 oz. Chinese noodles (available in • 1 tablespoon honey the Asian food section of your local • 3 tablespoons sesame oil grocery store) • 2 tablespoons rice vinegar • 1/4 cup soy sauce • 1 tablespoon smooth peanut butter 1 teaspoon garlic, minced 1 tablespoon sesame paste or tahini • • Char Siu Bao A conversation-starter or talks about diversity, culture, INSTRUCTIONS Cook noodles according to the package instructions. • Mapo Dofu • Drain in a colander and rinse in cold water so the noodles don’t stick. • In a bowl, whisk all other ingredients until smooth. and heritage • Pour the sauce over noodles and stir. Serve cold or at room temperature. OPTIONAL: Add chopped peanuts, shredded carrots, or chopped scallions.

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ere are more than eighty dierent religious groups in Ethiopia, and the cuisine is just as diverse! Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia have about two hundred days of fasting a year. Featured title at national library conerences and ABA’s ey do not eat meat or dairy products on those days. Similarly, the Muslim population— in line with religious beliefs—does not eat pork. ese religious traditions have resulted in a cuisine that includes a variety of meatless recipes. Chickpeas, lentils, and split peas are used in many Ethiopian dishes. ese foods are Winter Institute spiced with berbere, a blend of chili pepper, garlic, ginger, cumin, and coriander powders. Most Ethiopian meals start with injera, a spongy pancake made from te, which is a tiny POPULAR ETHIOPIAN FOODS seed from an ancient grass that is ground into our. People pile vegetable or meat wot *DORO WOT (DO-ro wot): spicy chicken stew* (stew) on top of injera and eat the whole thing with their ngers. You can taste Ethiopia’s diverse traditions in every spicy bite! HARIRA (HAH-rear-ah): spicy bean soup Trade and consumer advertising MISIR ALICHA WOT (mis-SEER a-LEE- cha wot): green lentil stew INJERA (in-JAIR-ah): SHIRO WOT (shee-RO wot): ground lentil SPONGY FLATBREAD (EASY STYLE*) and chickpea stew (4 servings) INGREDIENTS • 1 cup teff our (gluten free; available • 1 teaspoon baking powder at your local health food store) • 1-1/2 cups club soda • 1/2 teaspoon salt

INSTRUCTIONS • Combine teff our, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. • Stir in club soda to make a thin batter. • Heat a nonstick frying pan. • Ladle the batter into the pan to make one large, thin pancake. Harira • Cover the pan to keep moisture in. Doro Wot • Cook 2 to 3 minutes. The batter will bubble up, pop, and dry. (Do not ip the pancake.) • Slide the injera onto a plate and serve with stewed meat and vegetables. • Eat with your ngers, scooping up meat and vegetables with the injera.

FERMENT YOUR INJERA? The traditional recipe uses water, not club soda, and allows the batter to ferment and bubble up for a few days before it is cooked. Shiro Wot

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6 Up in the Leaves The True Story of the Central Park Treehouses by Shira Boss, illustrated by Jamey Christoph

“Bob lived in the big city. The city was very crowded.” This charming picture book tells the true story o Bob Redman, who took reuge rom the noise and the crowds o New York City in the natural beauty o Central Park where he covertly built a series o amazing treehouses. He played cat-and-mouse with the park workers until he was inally caught. But his story has a happy surprise . . .

SHIRA BOSS is a writer who lives on the Upper West Side o Manhattan, three blocks rom Central Park. Up in the Leaves is her second book. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees rom Columbia University, including a master’s in Journalism. When her KEY SELLING POINTS Japanese maple tree needed pruning, several people suggested she

Based on a ascinating true story and written by the call arborist Bob Redman. Now they have two sons, two whippets— subject’s wie and many more trees. Connect with them at shiraboss.com.

The New York Times covered the story twice, but there JAMEY CHRISTOPH’s illustrations have appeared in The New York were very ew pictures published. Now readers will get Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and in several award-winning the ull story! children’s books, including Gordon Parks: How the Photographer STEM/STEAM themes o construction, engineering, and Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherord conservation, as well as the universal theme o growing up (Albert Whitman). He works out o his 1920s home in Cleveland Treehouses are the subject o several popular television Heights, OH, with his dogs, Owen and Jack. shows, including Treehouse Masters and The Treehouse Guys

Jamey Christoph’s striking illustrations capture the lush beauty o Central Park

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7 But the Bear Came Back by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Dan Taylor

Knock, knock. Who’s there? A BEAR! A urry, riendly, PERSISTENT bear. And no matter how many times a grouchy little boy tries to tell him that bears don’t belong in houses, he keeps coming back. But, one day, the bear doesn’t return and the boy realizes he wants to ind his riend again. A unny, surprising story about two unexpected pals.

TAMMI SAUER is the author o Sterling Publishing’s Caring or Your Lion, Chicken Dance, Bawk and Roll, Cowboy Camp, Mary Had a Little Glam, Your Alien Returns, and Your Alien, which has earned starred reviews rom Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is an active blogger (tammisauer.com) and highly involved in the children’s writer community, in addition to being a great promoter o her own books. Tammi has worked as a teacher and library media specialist and now lives in Oklahoma with her husband and their two children. Her local indie bookstore, Best o Books, in Edmond, OK, has named July 9 Tammi Sauer Day. Follow her on Twitter at @SauerTammi.

DAN TAYLOR is a children’s book illustrator rom the UK. Born in Sta©ordshire, Dan had a love o drawing rom a young age and later KEY SELLING POINTS went on to study art and illustration, graduating with a degree in visual communication. Since then he has worked with a variety o Tammi is a publicity powerhouse, active on social media and publishers, including Simon & Schuster, Usborne, Campbell Books, constantly doing school visits and Scholastic. July 9 is Tammi Sauer Day in Edmond, Oklahoma, her hometown!

Terriic themes o riendship, tolerance, and making the best out o surprising situations

We have another new book coming out with Tammi in Spring 2019: A Little Chicken

With its engaging rhyme and un rerain, this book is a great read-aloud

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One ordinary day, a bear knocked on my door. Then I said, “Go home, bear.” And that was that.

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Meet Albie Newton: child genius. But when this whiz o an BiE eWToN inventor enters a new preschool, his perect plan or making Al riends turns into a disaster: he steals the hamster’s wheel, snatches the wings o© a toy airplane, and generally creates a giant mess. Now everyone’s angry! Will his new invention delight the other kids enough to make everything right and win their riendship?

JOSH FUNK is rom MA, where he spends his days writing computer language and his ree time writing picture book rhymes. He is the author o Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast Y J B Y D O E A S BY AT R (Sterling), its sequel, The Case o the Stinky Stench (Sterling), TR H US A F ILL G UN ER Pirasaurs (Scholastic), and Dear Dragon (Viking). K EST ESTER GARAY is a children’s book illustrator and designer who studied art in Copenhagen and London. She lives in Sitges, Spain, with her pug, Leela.

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Josh Funk is a Kidlit superstar; he has more than 9,800 ollowers on Twitter and is extremely well-connected in the community

Funk is also a tireless promoter o his books, scheduling weekly Skype visits with schools, signing stock at bookstores all over, and constantly working with teachers and librarians

This rhyming romp is not only un, it also boasts a good message about how to treat others

Ester Garay’s sweet, detailed illustrations with witty touches throughout, like using an abacus or a bedrame make this a very appealing book or the young preschool set

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1010 h Funk Back Jos list

"When I was a kid, my best €riend was Josh Funk. I think he's about to become a €riend to a whole new generation o€ kids." —B.J. Novak, author o‘ New York Times bestseller The Book WIth No Pictures.

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Praise or The Case o€ the Stinky Stench: Praise or Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast: “ Inspector Croissant not only solves the mystery, “ Newcomer Funk’s rhymes never skip a beat (though, but does a good deed, demonstrating compassion at one point, Lady Pancake does skip over two beets), to his ellow oodstu“. Crisp writing, engaging and he delights in transorming the ridge and its illustrations, and sweets—this is a recipe worth contents into an arena illed with perils . . . Kearney keeping.” —Kirkus Reviews (Flying Machines) is equally inspired, personiying nearly every oodstu“ with dot eyes and a U-shaped smile, while also giving the competitors a playully regal air, even as they become stained with jelly and chili.” —Publishers Weekly

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11 Picture Books Marigold & Daisy Words and Pictures by Andrea Zuill

Even snails can eel jealous over a new baby! Although Marigold is excited to meet her new snail sister, Daisy, she quickly realizes that Daisy must possess strange superpowers. A²er all, their parents think everything Daisy does is cute even pooping! Just when Marigold reaches her breaking point, she discovers that Daisy’s amazing skills may come in handy a²er all.

ANDREA ZUILL’s art was exhibited in galleries in Caliornia, Texas, and New York, including the San Diego Museum o Art and the Brand Library gallery, where she won the Disney Imagineering Award. A member o the SCBWI, she won the 2010 SCBWI Mentorship Award. Andrea is the author o Wol Camp (Schwartz & Wade) and Dance Is or Everyone (Sterling). She lives in the San Diego area.

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A sweet and universal story about learning to live with and maybe even love a younger sibling

Andrea’s hilariously quirky art makes this book stand out rom other new-sibling stories

The author’s irst published book, Wol Camp, was named one o the Amazon Editors’ Best Books o the Month or May 2016

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1313 Dress Like Mommy by Lisa Stickley

Poppy loves to dress like mommy especially when she can choose all her avorite colors, including a red dress with spots like bright tomatoes, a jacket as blue as the sea, garments o lemon yellow or pebble gray, and luminous lime-green boots and umbrellas. This beautiul, large-ormat book has a pretty synthetic abric cover and unny, unky contemporary art that will delight children.

LISA STICKLEY is a designer, author, and illustrator who trained as a printed textile designer at The Royal College o Art. She sold her irst-ever products to Paul Smith. Since then, she has been commissioned by Burberry, Harrods, Liberty, Tate, Selridges, Heals, and the Japanese stores Ships, Hankyu, and Isetan, and has a new range o textiles with Liberty o London.

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Distinctive new art style, design, story, and pictures perect or little girls who want to be “just like Mommy”

Perect tie-in to New York Fashion Week (February 8–16, 2018)

Follow up or Fall 2018: Bake Like Mommy

Mommy wore sea-green sandals to the beach today.

I carried her ENORMOUS plum-pudding purple hat.

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1414 10 Blue Butter­lies A Counting Book by Sam Williams

Can you ind 1 red ladybug nestled among hundreds o multicolored ladybugs? How about 2 orange ish or 6 brown bears? And since chameleons hide everywhere, can you count how many are concealed among the other animals throughout the book? Sam Williams’ stunning, bright illustrations make this a wonderul search and counting book to teach and enjoy.

SAM WILLIAMS has created, written, and illustrated numerous titles or children selling in many languages all over the world. His titles include Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg-Peters (Greenwillow), The No More series with Bernette Ford (Boxer Books), and Little Red by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess o York, Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson, and his new series Noah’s Park, published in the USA by Simon and Schuster.

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A “search-and-ind” book that is not only an introduction to animals and counting but also has an engaging challenge on every colorul spread

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1515 Nature’s Lullaby Fills the Night by Dee Leone, illustrated by Bali Engel

Night alls, and the world sings a lullaby. From moths luttering their powdery wings, to a nightingale’s sweet trills, to willow trees so²ly swaying, the gentle rhymes in this picture book will lull little ones to sleep. Tender, nature-illed bedtime scenes sweep across land, sky, and sea, with animal parents everywhere tucking in their children. A inal scene eatures a mother and her baby, bringing it all back home.

DEE LEONE is the author o Bizz and Buzz Make Honey Buns (Grosset & Dunlap) and Dough Knights and Dragons (Sterling). Many o her stories, poems, plays, and activity puzzles have appeared in children’s magazines. Dee taught at the elementary level in several states and was also a gi²ed-program aide. Dee and her husband live in San Diego. KEY SELLING POINTS BALI ENGEL is an illustrator and director at Bat Collective, a

Bedtime books are a perennial hit, and the beautiul language in studio she coounded with her husband. She lives in London. this one makes it stand out rom the crowd

Bali Engel’s illustrations are striking in their experimentation with color and light

Author Dee Leone is an enthusiastic promoter o her work

Features an array o beautiul animals in all di©erent environments

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1616 Sel­ie Sebastian by Sarah Glenn Marsh, illustrated by Florence Weiser

Sebastian is one handsome ox. So why can’t he take the perect selie? In his quest to get the shot o his dreams, he sets o© on an elaborate journey rom the Grand Canyon all the way to the moon. But nothing works. Could it be that the secret to his special selie is right where he started at home with his riends? SARAH GLENN MARSH writes antasy and horror novels or young adults, as well as children’s picture books. She received a master’s degree in education rom the University o Mary Washington beore deciding to pursue her dream o being a writer. Her debut YA novel, Fear the Drowning Deep, was released by Sky Pony Press in September 2016; her debut picture book, A Campire Tail, will also be published this spring with Sterling Children’s Books. She lives in Richmond, VA, with her husband. Visit her online at sarahglennmarsh.com or on Twitter: @SG_Marsh.

FLORENCE WEISER is an illustrator and graphic designer currently based in Belgium. She lives and works in a airytale trailer in the KEY SELLING POINTS mids t o a magical garden , where she gat her s mos t o her inspirat ion!

A clever nod to today’s tech-savvy culture

Reinorces important values, like riendship and sharing

Gorgeous colored-pencil illustrations bring the story to lie

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1717 Time ­or a Trip by Phillis Gershator, illustrated by David Walker

What time is it? It’s TIME FOR A TRIP!

Little Bunny’s all packed and ready to go and imagining the many ways his amily might travel. Will they board a bus or a choo-choo train? Sail on a erry or blast o© on a plane? In the end, everyone piles in the car and they visit the best place o all: Gramps and Granny’s house! What un.

PHILLIS GERSHATOR has written many picture books or children, including When It Starts to Snow (Henry Holt), Listen, Listen (Bareoot Books), and Time or a Hug, Time or a Bath, and Time or a Nap (all Sterling). Phillis worked as a children’s librarian or the Brooklyn Public Library and the St. Thomas/ St. John Department o Education. She lives with her husband and requent coauthor, David, in the US Virgin Islands. For more inormation about Phillis, see phillisgershator.com.

DAVID WALKER is the illustrator o numerous children’s books, including Beore You Were Mine (Putnam), Time or a Hug, Time or a KEY SELLING POINTS Nap (all Sterling), and Bears on Chairs (Candlewick) to name a ew. When Compact and gi²-y, with a so², suede-like cover that begs you not walking his dogs or laughing to grab it with his kids, he can be Great or selling year-round ound painting in his studio in Chapel Hill, NC. To see The perect book or parents preparing their kids or a journey more o David’s work, This is a new title to Sterling’s highly successul picture book please visit his website at series that began with Time or a Hug, and it eatures the same davidwalkerstudios.com. sweet bunny characters. Combined sales o Time or a Hug ormats (hardcover, board, kit) = 126,000 copies to date! SEE PAGE 30 FOR NEW BOARD BOOK EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE

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ISBN 9781454927747 • $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Time ­or a Nap Hardcover • 32 pages (all in color) ISBN 9781454919810 8 ‘⁄“ × 8 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 3 to 5 $9.95 ($11.95 CAN) Territory: W Hardcover • 8 ‘⁄“ × 8 ‘⁄“ Sterling Children’s Books Territory: W MARCH 2018

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1818 Diva Delores and the Opera House Mouse by Laura Sassi, illustrated by Rebecca Gerlings

Fernando loves Mozart, Puccini, and Strauss, and lending a paw at the old opera house. Unortunately, diva Delores wants no help rom a mouse. She craves glamour, spotlights, and praise, and she’s getting her chance to take center stage. But it’s all going wrong; she’s missing her entrance and lubbing her song. Will Delores hit a sour note or can she and the opera house mouse make beautiul music together?

LAURA SASSI is the author o Goodnight, Ark, which was a 2015 Christian Book Award Finalist, and Goodnight, Manger (both illustrated by bestselling illustrator Jane Chapman, and both published by Zonderkidz). She lives in Cranord, NJ with her amily.

REBECCA GERLINGS is an author-illustrator rom the UK. Cats, the color green, and things that make her laugh are a ew o her avorite things. She lives with her two children, one husband, and a cat called Leonard in a house not ar rom London.

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Reassuring message about community and the importance o even the smallest helping hands

The story models or kids how to be a kind and thoughtul riend

Enticing backstage perspective on a grand “adult” space

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National print and online publicity campaign

Author is available or regional events in New Jersey and New York

ISBN 9781454922001 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 32 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 3 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books MARCH 2018

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1919 A Walk Through the Woods by Louise Greig, illustrations by Helen Musselwhite

Listen: the orest is calling. This stunning gi² book takes children on a walk through the woods, where shadows all in the darkness, eyes peek out, and some animals sleep while others run and leap. Simple, poetic text rom an award-winning poet and intricate papercut illustrations introduce children to a deer, ox, rabbit, and other beautiul creatures as they wait or morning and spring to come. LOUISE GREIG is the 2015 winner o the Caterpillar Children’s Poetry Prize. She is the author o The Night Box (Egmont) and lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.

HELEN MUSSELWHITE is an illustrator and paper engineer based near Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Detailed, beautiul paper engineering makes this book a great gi²

Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and children’s author

Quiet, lyrical text makes this a wonderul bedtime story

Full o eye-catching papercra² illustrations

Perect or spring promotions

ISBN 9781454929888 • $19.95 ($26.95 CAN) Hardcover • 20 pages (all in color) 9 × 9 • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: US/Can Sterling Children’s Books MARCH 2018

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2020 Don’t Feed the Bear by Kathleen Doherty, illustrated by Chip Wass

Bear loves when campers leave him grub. The park ranger does not. Smackity smack, Ranger pounds a sign into the ground: DON’T FEED THE BEAR! Upset, Bear crosses out the “don’t.” Now, it’s war! But when both Bear and Ranger lose out, will they inally make peace? With its cartoonlike pictures and clever wordplay, this book will keep kids laughing or hours.

KATHLEEN DOHERTY has taught elementary school or over 30 years in Chicago. She’s a Reading Specialist and an Educational Specialist in Curriculum and Instruction who enjoys writing humorous stories and reading aloud to kids. Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, The Mailbox, Highlights or Children, Highlights High Five, Highlights HELLO, and Spider Magazine. She has won the Highlights Pewter Plate Award, the Highlights Celebrate National Poetry Contest, and a letter o merit rom SCBWI’s Magazine Merit Competition. She currently lives in Schererville, IN.

CHIP WASS is an award-winning artist who designs characters and illustrations or Disney, Cartoon Network, The New York Times, ESPN, and Wendy's. His previous books include Monster Knows Patterns, and Monster Knows Numbers (Picture Window Books). Chip lives in Baltimore, MD. Learn more about chip at chipwass.com.

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Vibrant Hanna Barbera–style illustrations

ISBN 9781454919797 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 32 pages (all in color) 9 × 11 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 3 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books APRIL 2018

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21 Over at the Construction Site by Bill Wise, illustrated by Claire Lordon

Come to the construction site and spend a day with mommy and daddy vehicles bulldozers, ront loaders, cement mixers, and more as they encourage their little ones to push, dig, cut, dump, mix, and tip! With its catchy, songlike rhyming text, this un read- aloud will delight parents and kids alike. At the end, children will love discovering what these hardworking trucks have created!

BILL WISE is the author o the picture book biography Louis Sockalexis, Native American Baseball Pioneer (Lee & Low Books), which was awarded the National Council or Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Elementary Book Award and the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award or Primary Noniction. Silent Star, the Story o Dea Major Leaguer William Hoy (Lee & Low Books), also a picture book biography, was named one o the Best Children’s Books o the Year, Outstanding Merit by Bank Street College o Education in 2013. Bill lives in Gorham, ME.

CLAIRE LORDON is an illustrator and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She creates children’s books, surace designs, murals, and greeting cards or a number o companies. Her debut picture book, KEY SELLING POINTS which she also wrote, is called Lorenzo the Pizza-Loving Lobster (little bee books). She is a member o the Society o Children’s Book Appeals to kids who love construction vehicles and explains Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), the Children’s Book Illustrator what each truck does and what it’s called Group (CBIG), and 12x12. A counting element helps little ones learn their numbers

A great ending reveals the inished building made by the vehicles: a school!

ISBN 9781454922292 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover • 32 pages (all in color) 10 × 10 • Ages: 1 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books APRIL 2018

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2222 Help Find Frank by Anne Bollman

Frank the French bulldog loves to run, play, and give slobbery kisses. But now he’s lost. Where can he be the park? The baseball ield? Filled with evidence exhibits, maps, and detailed seek-and- ind pages, this engaging story entices young adventurers to discover clues that Frank leaves behind and locate the little guy himsel. Amateur sleuths will have loads o un with this uniquely interactive book.

ANNE BOLLMAN began her career in architecture and interior design, then went on to be a lead designer or a large gi² and stationery manuacturer. In 2014, Anne started her own studio, Anne Was Here, and her work has been eatured in magazines, commercials, and on various retail products. Help Find Frank is her irst children’s book. She lives in Los Angeles.

Yes, lt’s lok at he park! Do yu se any sign of Frank? What els can you find?

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Kids will be eager to solve this un mystery story with the Can you find... peeking eyes? promise o a big reward with its irresistible hero a snail? a butterfly? a bee? a tennis ball? a lollipop? Features interactive elements, including clues, cardinal a kite? a bird's nest? a snake? direction practice, and seek-and-ind spreads, that a jump rope? a baseball hat? a bunny? encourage children to make connections and employ a raccoon? a toy truck? a tricycle? deductive reasoning Frank's bow tie? Mayb tha girl on the swing l know her  is!

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National print and online publicity campaign

Digital ocus on children’s book review and mommy blogs

Trade advertising

Activity kit available or teachers, librarians, and booksellers

School visits and bookstore appearances in the Los Angeles, CA area INTERVIEW 1: FRANK'S FAMILY

Note A: "Frank was last seen running down the street in Note B: "He was wearing his polka-dot bow tie." front of our house."

ISBN 9781454926788 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 32 pages (all in color) 10 × 10 • Ages: 3 to 7 Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books MAY 2018

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2323 A Camp­ire Tail by Sarah Glenn Marsh, illustrated by Ana Gómez

Ever been stuck with a riend who’s totally uncool? It’s Dragon’s irst day at Camp Wildwood, and his buddy would LIKE to show him a good time. But Dragon doesn’t it in: he overturns the boat, ruins the puppet show, and even sets the tent on ire. Then, just as his buddy is about to give up, Dragon comes through in a pinch. This sweet, unny picture book teaches an important lesson about the true meaning o riendship.

SARAH GLENN MARSH writes antasy and horror novels or young adults, as well as children’s picture books. She received a master’s degree in education rom the University o Mary Washington beore deciding to pursue her dream o being a writer. She lives in Richmond, VA, with her husband and greyhounds. Her debut young adult novel, Fear the Drowning Deep (Sky Pony Press), was released in September 2016. You can visit her online at sarahglennmarsh.com or on Twitter: @SG_Marsh.

ANA GÓMEZ is an illustrator living in Madrid, Spain. She is also the illustrator o Bow Wow Meow, El Amigo Perecto, and the hilarious KEY SELLING POINTS Hedgehog and Rabbit series.

Colorul and modern illustrations add whimsy and un

A story or kids who love dragons

With humor and heart, this book teaches kids about tolerance and the importance o riendship

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National print and online publicity campaign

Digital ocus on children’s blogs and review websites

Trade advertising

Goodreads giveaways

Cross-promotion on the author’s website, sarahglennmarsh.com, and Twitter: @SG_Marsh

ISBN 9781454919933 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 40 pages (all in color) 10 × 10 • Ages: 4 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: WENG Sterling Children’s Books MAY 2018

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2424 Daddies Do by Lezlie Evans, illustrated by Elisa Ferro

From a tiny mouse to a lion cub, adorable animal children explain why daddies are the best! Who wrestles with you or un but then surrenders and says you’ve won? Who takes you on outings and just doesn’t care i you’ve got messy hair? Guess who? DADDIES DO! This perect Father’s Day story ends with every dad tucking his child in with a sweet good night.

LEZLIE EVANS is the award-winning author o numerous picture books, including Can You Count Ten Toes? (Houghton Mi°in Harcourt) and Finding Christmas (Albert Whitman). Scholastic Book Clubs/Fairs has picked up several o her titles, including Rain Song and Snow Dance (both Houghton Mi°in Harcourt), and The Bunnies’ Picnic (Disney/Hyperion). Lezlie is an avid speaker and proponent or early childhood literacy, and a member o the Children’s Book Guild o Washington, DC. Visit her at Lezlieevans.com. She lives in Ashburn, VA.

ELISA FERRO is an Italian children’s illustrator based in Padua, where she lives with her husband and two cats. She studied at the University o Architecture and Visual Art in Venice, and at the International School o Illustration in Sarmede. This will be her debut picture book in the US.

KEY SELLING POINTS

Gentle, unny, rhyming text is perect or bedtime reading

Can be promoted year-round, and especially or Father’s Day

Sweet message about the unconditional love dads o©er their kids

This is a brand-new illustrator, and she nails the ather-child relationship to perection!

MARKETING & PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN

National print and online publicity campaign

Father’s Day gi² guides

Regional bookstore and school appearances in the Washington, D.C. area

ISBN 9781454921714 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 32 pages (all in color) 8 × 10 • Ages: 3 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books MAY 2018

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2525 Board Books Happy Happier Happiest by Corina Fletcher, illustrated by Natalie Marshall

Who’s shy? Happy? Silly? This charming pull-tab novelty book explores di©erent eelings and teaches kids about superlatives, too. No ish in the crowded school is lonely, but a solitary, slow swimmer is. Another ish, urther behind, is lonelier still, and a third, ar rom everyone, is loneliest o all. The inal spread eatures the sweetest, sleepiest seal, whose eyes shut as you pull the tab.

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The illustrations are vibrant and eye-catching Natalie is a hot illustrator whose work is in high demand

There is a very satisying, interactive, and durable pull-tab on every spread, including the ront cover ISBN 9781454928959 $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) Part o a growing series that has already sold 30,000 copies: We previously o©ered Board Book • 12 pages (all in color) Small Smaller Smallest and Up Down Across 7 × 7 • Ages: UP to 3 Carton Qty: 48 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books FEBRUARY 2018

Animal Families by Corina Fletcher, illustrated by Natalie Marshall

With this un novelty book, kids will love learning about adorable animals and their habitats. Each spread eatures a mommy, daddy, and baby, labeled with their names, as well as tabs to pull that reveal hidden amily members. Join ox, vixen, and kit in the orest; rooster, hen, and chick on the arm; billy and nanny goat with their kid in the mountains; and other riendly creatures.

CORINA FLETCHER is an award-winning paper engineer who has been creating amazing pop-up books or almost 20 years. Corina irst studied Graphic Design at Central St. Martins School o Art and went on to earn her Masters in Visual Communication at the Royal College o Art. She lives near Lewes in East Sussex, England.

NATALIE MARSHALL has illustrated more than 35 children’s titles since graduating rom ISBN 9781454928942 college with an honors degree in Graphic Design. Titles she has illustrated include the My $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) Turn to Learn series (Hachette/LB Kids). In addition to illustrating children’s books, Natalie Board Book • 12 pages (all in color) also produces her own line o greeting cards or her Little Red Owl label. She resides near 7 × 7 • Ages: UP to 3 the beach in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and two kids. Carton Qty: 48 Territory: US/Can/Philippines ALSO AVAILABLE Sterling Children’s Books FEBRUARY 2018 Small Smaller Smallest Up Down Across ISBN 9781454915591 ISBN 9781454915621 $8.95 ($10.95 CAN) $8.95 ($10.95 CAN) Board Book • 7 × 7 Board Book • 7 × 7 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Territory: US/Can/Philippines

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27 With cool things to push, pull, and slide on the cover and each sturdy spread, plus ‰un ‰acts on every page, these chunky board books give children their ‰irst enticing taste o‰ non‰iction!

ALL BOOKS ARE: $8.95 (NCR) • Board Book • 10 pages (all in color) • 7 –⁄˜ × 7 –⁄˜ • Ages: 1 to 4 Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US Only • Sterling Children’s Books • FEBRUARY 2018

Astronauts Brilliant Bugs Illustrated by Christiane Engel Illustrated by Chorkung Blast o© on an adventure to the International Space Station! Join the Meet bees, butterlies, and wiggly worms! Peek through the leaves or a astronauts on their long journey and learn how they work, eat, and sleep magical introduction to the wild world o insects. Turn a wheel to watch in this zero-gravity atmosphere. With the un interactive eatures, kids a caterpillar turn into a butterly; pull a tab to see a spider spin its web; can make the rocket take o©, go on a space walk, watch the sun rise and count zigzagging beetles; and ind out which creepy crawlies are hiding set 16 times a day, and more. Simple science acts will ascinate budding underneath the leaves on the orest loor. It’s interactive un! astronauts and astronomers.

ISBN 9781454929413 ISBN 9781454929406 PUSH PULL SLIDE

My Body Wild Animals Illustrated by Rebecca Jones Illustrated by Jenny Wren Our bodies are amazing machines! Take a look inside and learn all about Kids can travel the world and visit their avorite animals, all while playing the brain, the heart, the stomach, and more. As little hands pull the tabs with this book’s wonderul interactive eatures. Journey rom the hot, and spin the wheels, they’ll get to see a skeleton, learn why playing and dusty grasslands where lions roam to the mountain orests where chimps running keep us healthy, and discover what happens when we eat an apple. and gorillas swing rom the trees. Thanks to the tabs and wheels, kids will It’s the perect book or young scientists. peer into a hippo’s mouth, gaze at a gira©e nibbling leaves, and help a stag run to saety.

ISBN 9781454929420 ISBN 9781454929437 BOARD BOOKS

2828 BACKLIST

ALL BOOKS ARE: $8.95 (NCR) • Board Book • 7 –⁄˜ × 7 –⁄˜ • Territory: US O nly

Dinosaurs In the Jungle Night Animals Sea Creatures ISBN 9781454926559 ISBN 9781454926566 ISBN 9781454926573 ISBN 9781454926580

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This early noniction series introduces the natural world and science topics to toddlers There are push, pull, and slide mechanisms on the cover and every spread Simple acts and labels will engage preschoolers Lots or parents and little ones to spot and talk about Delightul illustrations with recognizable plants, animals, and much more!

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2929 Puddle Pug by Kim Norman, illustrated by Keika Yamaguchi

Percy the Pug loves puddles big puddles, small puddles, swamp puddles, stomp puddles. No puddle is perect, though . . . until he inds one with three riendly piglets. But protective Mama Pig says NO PUGS and chases Percy away! Irresistibly illustrated by Keika Yamaguchi, Kim Norman’s tale about a persistent pug and his pursuit o riendship in puddle paradise brims with warmth and charm.

KIM NORMAN and her husband live in Smithield, VA. Kim is the author o several books or young readers, including The Bot that Scott Built; This Old Van; Ten on the Sled; I It’s Snowy and You Know It, Clap Your Paws!; and Crocodaddy (all Sterling). Visit Kim online at kimnormanbooks.com.

KEIKA YAMAGUCHI graduated rom the Art Center College o Design in Pasadena. A ormer Walt Disney Imagineering intern, she illustrated the children’s books Teeny Tiny Toady NEW FORMAT (Sterling), written by Jill Esbaum, and Sick o Being Sick (3DAL), written by Justin Sullivan. Visit ISBN 9781454927150 Keika at keikashouse.com to see more o her work. She lives in La Crescenta, CA. $7.95 ($10.95 CAN) KEY SELLING POINTS Board Book • 30 pages (all in color) 7 × 7 • Ages: UP to 3 • Carton Qty: 30 A board book edition o a avorite story, now suitable or younger children Territory: W • Sterling Children’s Books The hardcover edition o Puddle Pug sold nearly 18,000 copies MARCH 2018 A sequel called Thunder Pug is in the works or Fall 2018. Same talented duo!

ALSO AVAILABLE A gentle story about making and keeping! riends who might be di©erent rom us in some way

Crocodaddy ISBN 9781454901303 $6.95 ($8.50 CAN) Board Book • 7 × 7 Territory: W

Time ­or a Trip by Phillis Gershator, illustrated by David Walker

What time is it? It’s TIME FOR A TRIP! The per­ect board book ­or travel-ready toddlers. Little Bunny’s all packed and ready to go and imagining the many ways his amily might travel. Will they get on a bus or a choo-choo train? Sail on a erry or blast o© on a plane? In the end, everyone piles in the car and they visit the best place o all: Gramps and Granny’s house! What un.

PHILLIS GERSHATOR has written many picture books or children, including When It Starts to Snow (Henry Holt), Listen, Listen (Bareoot Books), and Time or a Hug, Time or a Bath, and Time or a Nap (all Sterling). Phillis worked as a children’s librarian or the Brooklyn Public Library and the St. Thomas/St. John Department o Education. She lives with her husband and requent coauthor, David, in the US Virgin Islands. For more inormation about Phillis, see phillisgershator.com.

ISBN 9781454930167 DAVID WALKER is the illustrator o numerous children’s books, including Beore You Were $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) Mine (Putnam), Time or a Hug (Sterling), Time or a Nap (Sterling), and Bears on Chairs Board Book • 22 pages (all in color) (Candlewick) to name a ew. When not walking his dogs or laughing with his kids, he can be 7 × 7 • Ages: UP to 3 • Carton Qty: 40 ound painting in his studio in Chapel Hill, NC. To see more o David’s work, please visit his Territory: W • Sterling Children’s Books website at davidwalkerstudios.com MARCH 2018

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3030 A Sunny Summer’s Day Illustrated by Anne Passchier

Summer is here and this enchanting board book lets you see it as never be­ore! Kitten is looking or someone to play with on a hot summer’s day. Will it be Butterly, Bumble Bee, or Harvest Mouse? In an adorable twist ending, Kitten has allen asleep while waiting! The acetate windows accentuate this simple, sweet story and will be sure to delight! This title is a great addition to Sterling’s ocus on novelty board books.

ANNE PASSCHIER is an illustrator rom the Netherlands, who relocated to the United States to attend art school. Anne currently works in Cleveland, OH, as a gi²ware designer and illustrator.

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Acetate windows reveal uture elements

Sweet summer story

Great reveal-and-learn ormat Ready for fun, Mouse scurried to join his friends. There was no answer, just a soft gentle purring. “Kitten, we’re all ready to play!” Kitten had dozed o in the warm sun! Part o a great series

SEE THROUGH STORIES Summer insides.indd 4 26/06/2017 11:32

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Through the Forest in Fall ISBN 9781454925019 • $8.95 ($10.95 CAN) Board Book • 7 × 7 Territory: US/Can/Philippines

ISBN 9781454928805 • $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) A Winter Wonderland Board Book • 10 pages (all in color) ISBN 9781454928812 • $8.95 ($10.95 CAN) 7 × 7 • Ages: 3 to 7 Board Book • 7 × 7 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books MARCH 2018

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31 Look at the picture. Li– the €lap. Find the color or shape that answers the question. Have €un and LEARN!

Li†-the-Flap Colors by Margot Channing, illustrated by Ilana Exelby

Which ice cream isn’t red? Can you ind the purple sunglasses? Point to the yellow bicycle. Early learners can practice their color recognition skills with this enormously entertaining li²-the-lap book. All kids have to do is answer the questions and see whether or not they’ve identiied the correct color. It’s so interactive and un that young children won’t even realize they’re learning! Cover not inal not Cover

ISBN 9781912233663 $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Board Book • 32 pages (all in color) 7 •⁄– × 9 ‘⁄¿À • Ages: UP to 5 Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers MARCH 2018 Li†-the-Flap Shapes by Margot Channing, illustrated by Ilana Exelby

Can you ind the hearts? What shape is the picture rame and the kite, too? This colorul and interactive book teaches toddlers about a wide variety o shapes, rom stars and circles to diamonds, crosses, and crescents. With plenty o laps to li² and questions to answer, every page will keep kids entertained!

MARGOT CHANNING is a reelance children’s book author and illustrator. She works on books or young children, mainly baby, novelty, and activity titles.

ILANA EXELBY graduated rom Lincoln University with a BA in Illustration in 2010. She lives in Huddersield, UK. KEY SELLING POINTS

Colorul and charming illustrations

70 li²-out laps ISBN 9781912233410 Printed on sturdy card stock $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Board Book • 32 pages (all in color) Makes learning un 7 •⁄– × 9 ‘⁄¿À • Ages: UP to 5 Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers MARCH 2018

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3232 Exotic Fruit by Huy Voun Lee

Dragonruit, lychee, mangosteen, starruit: how many o these ruits do you know? How many have you eaten? Children love ruit, and Exotic Fruit goes beyond apples and oranges, introducing kids to nine varieties that aren’t indigenous to the United States. Simple, inormative text conveys their texture and taste, while colorul, appealing illustrations capture both the inside and outside o these great ruits.

HUY VOUN LEE arrived in New York City at the age o six as a Cambodian reugee. Huy has written and illustrated many children’s books, including At the Beach, In the Snow, and In the Park (Henry Holt), and Origami Playhouse (Chronicle). She teaches schoolchildren origami at the Museum o Natural History. Huy lives with her husband on the Upper West Side in New York City. Learn more about Huy at huyvounlee.com and connect with her @huyvounlee. Huy Voun Lee

KEY SELLING POINTS Inside, it has a floral scent and tastes like lychee, peach, and vanilla ice cream!

Beautiul Illustrations

Fruits are a avorite with kids, and an important part o their diet, and this is a great introduction to new and nutritious oods

Includes geographic origin or all ruits as well as pronunciations The PINEAPPLE looks like a giant pinecone wearing Origin: Malaysia and Indonesia | Also known as: “queen of fruits” a crown of green feathers.

The KIWI fruit is small with soft, fuzzy skin.

But inside, this tropical fruit is bright yellow. It’s super-juicy and can taste both sweet and tart.

Origin: South America | Fun fact: Pineapple is considered lucky in Taiwan

Big and spiky, the DURIAN can poke you with its sharp skin.

ISBN 9781454928027 • $7.95 ($10.95 CAN) Board Book • 22 pages (all in color) 7 × 7 • Ages: 3 to 7 But inside, its clear flesh is sugary. Its musky smell can fill up a whole room. Carton Qty: 40 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books Origin: China | Also known as: (lì(lì zhī)zhī) APRIL 2018

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3333 Give baby hours o€ €un—and learning too! Featuring attractive high-contrast and patterned illustrations that help calm children, these €un early board books teach babies and toddlers basic concepts while developing their concentration and literacy skills.

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Board Book • 12 pages (all in color) • 4 ‘‘⁄¿À × 4 ‘‘⁄¿À Ages: UP to 3 • Carton Qty: 32 • Territory: US/Can • Scribblers • APRIL 2018 Cover not inal not Cover Cover not inal not Cover

The Boat is Blue The Bus Goes Toot, Toot, Toot! Baby’s First Book o Colors Baby’s First Book o Things That Go by Carolyn Scrace by Carolyn Scrace What’s yellow? What’s purple? Learn all about the di©erent colors, rom a Choo-choo, toot toot, zoom zoom: all these noisy machines are on the blue boat splish-splashing in the water to a brown chicken cluck-clucking move! Baby will love these un, brightly colored illustrations, which range all day long. rom a plane that goes whirr, whirr, whirr up in the air to a truck that grumbles and rattles over the bumpy road.

ISBN 9781912233571 ISBN 9781912233557 Cover not inal not Cover Cover not inal not Cover

The Cat’s Meow The Robot is Square Baby’s First Book o Animals Baby’s First Book o Shapes by Carolyn Scrace by Carolyn Scrace Cats go meow! Dogs go woo! Children love animals, and this adorable Everywhere kids look, there are di©erent shapes to discover! From a book introduces them to the un sounds they make and their avorite rectangular door to a perectly circular plate o delicious ood to a star- things to do. Soon kids will be squeaking and squawking, baa-ing and illed starish, this pretty book o©ers colorul un and learning. quacking right along with the pictures.

ISBN 9781912233564 ISBN 9781912233533

CAROLYN SCRACE is an illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at Brighton College o Art in England and her career has taken her into the worlds o advertising, animation, and publishing. She specializes in children’s picture books and art guides.

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3434 Whose bottom is it? Li– the €lap and see!

POSTPONED TO FALL 2018 In the Wild A Lift-the-Flap Book! by Lisa Stubbs

Whose bottom is that, big and wrinkly? Whose bottom is that, covered in stripes? Kids will have un as they play a guessing game and try to igure out whose bottom stays cool in the river (a hippo), is way up high (a gira©e), charges through the grasslands (a rhino), and has a happy waggy tail (the lion).

ISBN 9781910716618 $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Board Book • 24 pages (all in color) 9 •⁄– × 9 •⁄– • Ages: UP to 3 Carton Qty: 28 • Territory: US/Can Boxer Books AUGUST 2018

POSTPONED TO FALL 2018 On the Farm A Lift-the-Flap Book! by Lisa Stubbs

Come to the arm where all the animals are bottoms up until you open the lap! Can you guess whose bottom is that, wallowing in the mud? (A pig.) What about the bottom bobbing in the pond? Quack, it’s a duck! From the wooly-bottomed sheep to a goat with a snowy white tail, this is a un look at animal bottoms.

LISA STUBBS’ work is inspired by her amily lie. Lily and Bear (Simon & Schuster), her irst picture book, was published to great critical acclaim.

Whose bottom ISBN 9781910716557 is wallowing in the mud? $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Board Book • 24 pages (all in color) 9 •⁄– × 9 •⁄– • Ages: UP to 3 Carton Qty: 28 • Territory: US/Can Whose bottom is wallowing in in Boxer Books in the mud? igs bottom AUGUST 2018

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3535 Four cute board books that teach basic shapes with color€ul, appealing, everyday items!

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Board Book • 20 pages (all in color) • 6 ‘⁄“ × 6 ‘⁄“ Ages: UP to 4 • Territory: US/Can • White Star Kids • APRIL 2018

My Circle Book My Rectangle Book by Agnese Baruzzi by Agnese Baruzzi What’s a circle? A clock, buttons, a donut, a ball. From a ace to a lollipop, There are all kinds o rectangles around. Just look at these pictures and the images on each joyully colored page show the circular shapes that are see! You’ll ind tasty rectangles (a chocolate bar), practical rectangles (a all around us. suitcase), rectangles to walk on (a carpet), and rectangles that drive by (a truck). Kids will have un learning about this shape!

ISBN 9788854412255 ISBN 9788854412262

My Square Book My Triangle Book by Agnese Baruzzi by Agnese Baruzzi Squares, squares everywhere, rom a so² pillow to a delicious cookie to Triangles can be magical, like a wizard’s hat; yummy, like an ice cream building blocks to play with! Each cheerul illustration helps children see cone; sharp, like a bird’s beak or a crocodile’s teeth; and helpul, like a where they’ll ind squares in the world around them, including windows, warning sign telling you to stop. From a teepee to a sail to a pencil tip, boxes, a tablecloth, and even this book. every triangle here is eye-catching and cool!

ISBN 9788854412279 ISBN 9788854412286

AGNESE BARUZZI graduated in Graphic Design rom ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche) in Urbino. She has worked as an illustrator and author since 2001, writing more than 40 children’s books that have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, the US, France, and South Korea. She holds workshops or children and adults in schools and libraries and provides illustrations or agencies, graphic art studios, and publishers. She is a longstanding author or White Star, illustrating Animal Mix & Match, Curious Creatures, Dinosaurs Mix & Match, Dining with Monsters!, Curious Dinosaurs, Topsy-Turvy Monsters, I’m Going to Eat You!, Puss in Boots, and Hansel and Gretel.

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3636 Meet the Baby Dinosaurs and Watch Them Grow! With adorable art and relatable stories that €ocus on everyday situations, these board books about €our little dinosaurs—Bronto the Brontosaurus, Terri the Pterodactylus, Trixie the Triceratops, and Rex the Tyrannosaurus rex—will captivate young children!

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Board Book • 14 pages (all in color) • 6 ‘⁄“ × 7 Ages: UP to 4 • Territory: US/Can • White Star Kids • MAY 2018

Bronto’s Search ­or Dad Terri’s First Flight 4 Friends and Their Jurassic Adventures 4 Friends and Their Jurassic Adventures Illustrations by Marisa Vestita Illustrations by Marisa Vestita Where, oh where can Bronto’s daddy be? He went out early in the morning It’s a big day or little Terri: she’s supposed to spread her wings and ly. But and disappeared! Bronto is VERY worried but, ortunately, his riends Terri’s scared o heights. “I DON’T WANT TO FLY!” she cries. But with her are there to help him search. Terri lies over the orest, while Trixie and riends gathered round her, all opening their arms as wide as they can, will Rex look or clues. Together, can they ollow dad’s ootsteps and solve Terri eel ready to take the leap . . . and soar? the mystery? This charming story will reassure every child who has elt anxious about a missing parent.

ISBN 9788854412521

ISBN 9788854412538

A Toothbrush ­or Rex Trixie Faces Her Fear 4 Friends and Their Jurassic Adventures 4 Friends and Their Jurassic Adventures Illustrations by Marisa Vestita Illustrations by Marisa Vestita

Scary roars are echoing through the orest and they’re coming rom Rex! When Trixie suddenly yells “HELP!,” all her dinosaur riends wonder what’s The poor thing has a stick stuck in his teeth, and it really hurts. Fortunately, going on. Has she hurt hersel? No she’s just scared o a tiny ladybug. Terri pulls it out with her long beak. But his riends also have an important Can her riends convince her to ace her ears, stop running away, and play message: i Rex wants strong teeth like his dad, he has to brush really well. with the riendly bug? Soon Trixie learns that you don’t always have to be What good advice or a little dinosaur! araid o something new.

ISBN 9788854412507 ISBN 9788854412514

MARISA VESTITA studied painting at the Academy o Fine Arts o Lecce. In 2002 she moved to Milan, where she received her irst commissions as an illustrator. Her art has been shown in major exhibitions throughout Italy, and she has worked with major Italian publishing houses and magazines, including Grazia and Natural Style.

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37 With €un €laps and tactile elements, these vibrant board books teach simple concepts about animals and places to young children.

ALL BOOKS ARE: $8.95 • Board Book • 12 pages (all in color)7 ‘⁄– × 7 ‘⁄– • Ages: 1 to 4 Territory: US Only • Sterling Children’s Books • JULY 2018 Cover not inal not Cover Cover not inal not Cover Farm Park Illustrated by Marie-Noëlle Horvath Illustrated by Marie-Noëlle Horvath Good morning! Welcome to the arm, where the rooster crows cock-a- It’s playtime! Time to lip the lap and ind out all about the park! This doodle-doo to start the day. On this visit, kids can meet and touch a woolly colorul interactive book introduces readers to shiny slides and swings, sheep, lu©y hen (and ind her chicks), a squiggly piglet, and a shaggy goat. trees, and the ducks and other creatures that live there. Best o all, Along the way, they’ll spot hidden things through peekaboo holes in a un toddlers can enjoy the sensation o petting these animals! guessing game.

ISBN 9781454929444 ISBN 9781454929468

MARIE-NOËLLE HORVATH is an illustrator and a pattern designer or children’s books and kidswear, but also or arts-and-cra²s activity books (one o her books, Little Felted Animals, was translated into English at Watson-Guptill Publications). Marie currently lives in Paris with her husband Carl and her cat Nonette. Cover not inal not Cover Cover not inal not Cover Sea Zoo Illustrated by Allison Black Illustrated by Allison Black What lives beneath the waves? This adorable book takes children down There’s nothing kids enjoy more than a visit to the zoo—especially i they where starish and other underwater creatures live—and even gives little actually get a chance to pet some o the animals there. hands the opportunity to discover and pet these animals. ALLISON BLACK is an illustrator and designer who lives in Columbus, OH.

ISBN 9781454929475 ISBN 9781454929451

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3838 Middle Grade Fiction The Haunted Serpent by Dora M. Mitchell

Spaulding Meriwether, Thedgeroot Middle School’s new resident weirdo, just wants to it in. But a²er a revenant chases him through the woods, Spaulding suspects something strange is aoot. Then the chimneys o an abandoned actory start smoking and his dead neighbor materializes, along with his missing pet boa. O course, Spaulding just has to investigate but he may be biting o© more than he can chew . . .

DORA M. MITCHELL is a writer, illustrator, and children’s librarian living in Northern Caliornia. Her latest illustration work can be seen in The Boatman by Kat Hawthorne (BookFish Books, 2015). Visit her online at doramitchell.com.

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Great series potental

Illustrations throughout, which look as i they come rom Spaulding’s own notebooks

With its mix o scary and unny, this story is perect or ans o such popular TV series as Gravity Falls

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ISBN 9781454927853 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 240 pages (b/w illus. throughout) • 5 ‘⁄– × 7 Á⁄– Ages: 8 to 12 • Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books JUNE 2018

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4040 The Dark Forest: Book 2 by Alex Wool

The second book in Alex Wool’s pulse-pounding historical trilogy complete with coded clues to solve! Nearly two years a²er his disappearance, Alice Fletcher’s brother Richard has returned, su©ering rom amnesia. Meanwhile, Alice, Richard, and Tom Cavendish must oil a Catholic plot against the new king, James I, involving the abduction o none other than Shakespeare. The suspenseul, ast- paced plot will keep young readers glued to the page.

ALEX WOOLF is an acclaimed writer, mainly specializing in antasy and supernatural iction and historical inormation books or children and young adults. His work including the steampunk series Iron Sky and Aldo Moon and the Ghost at Gravewood Hall (both Salariya) has been published in several countries. He lives in Southgate, North London, with his wie and two children.

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The second installment in the stunning historical-thriller trilogy, The Shakespeare Plot

Exciting story illed with political scheming, romance, and murder will engross kids even as they gain insight into Shakespeare’s England

Includes atmospheric black-and-white illustrations

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41 Cici Reno Middle School Matchmaker by Kristina Springer

Middle school is a test, but Cici has the answers. She’s the go-to girl or advice cool, unny, and enlightened (thanks to her mom’s yoga classes). So when her pretty BFF is too shy to speak to the boy she’s crushing on, Cici goes online and does the talking or her. Then Cici starts to all or the guy hersel! For the irst time ever, she doesn’t have a clue.

KRISTINA SPRINGER is the author o My Fake Boyriend Is Better Than Yours (Macmillan/FSG), a Scholastic Bestseller and 2012 YALSA Quick Pick book; The Espressologist (Macmillan, FSG), a 2010 Society o School Librarians International Honor Book and 2014 Illinois Reads Book that has been purchased or ilm by Michael Eisner’s Vuguru; and Just Your Average Princess (Macmillan/FSG). She has a Masters in Writing rom DePaul University and resides in a suburb o Chicago with her husband and children. Learn more about Kristina on her website: KristinaSpringer.com.

Praise or the hardcover o Cici Reno:

“ A surprisingly successul, suspenseul, and engrossing take on the Cyrano story with a contemporary twist.” Kirkus Reviews

“ Cici is a believable character . . . Interspersed with Twitter eeds

Cover not inal not Cover and yoga poses, this clever twist on Cyrano de Bergerac will win over the hearts o middle-schoolers, particularly those eeling KEY SELLING POINTS shy or awkward themselves, as well as reluctant readers.” Booklist New in Paperback

Incredibly unny and clever writing

Modern, age-appropriate love story

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42 Just My Luck (Zack Delacruz, Book 2) by Je“ Anderson

Zack Delacruz is back with a crush on Abhi, the new girl at school. Unortunately, a²er Zack accidentally knocks her to the ground during dodgeball, Abhi ignores his attempts at making amends. Finally, Zack learns the reason behind Abhi’s cold shoulder . . . just as the Fall Fiesta-val erupts in chaos, nearly destroying Zack’s chance to talk to her. In the end, he learns what it means to listen and be a good riend.

JEFF ANDERSON is the author o Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth, Mechanically Inclined, Everyday Editing, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, and Revision Decisions. Zack Delacruz 2 is the wacky sequel to his debut middle-grade novel. Je© grew up in Austin, TX, and learned to love writing by journaling and cra²ing stories to entertain his riends over the phone. Je© lives with his partner, Terry, and their dogs. Find out more about Je© at writeguy.net or ollow him on Twitter @writeguyje©. Je© lives in San Antonio, TX

Praise or Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth:

“ Zack is a relatable narrator and embodies the middle school experience. The steady pace makes this novel a solid pick or reluctant readers.” — School Library Journal

“ Zack . . . is a sympathetic narrator, and Anderson spiritedly renders the voices and personalities o preteens, many o Mexican descent, in a blue-collar section o San Antonio, Tex. . . . [A] pleasantly KEY SELLING POINTS satisying inish.” —Publishers Weekly

New in paperback! ALSO AVAILABLE Touches on experiences that are common to middle graders, such as having a crush and being teased

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43 Mango Delight by Fracaswell Hyman

Surviving seventh grade is tough–especially when your BFF dumps you, you’re cut rom the track team, and you cost your dad his job. That’s the mess Mango’s in. THEN her ex-bestie tricks Mango into auditioning or the school musical but Mango wins the lead, becomes a YouTube sensation, and attracts the attention o the school’s queen bee. Soon Mango is orced to make tough choices about the kind o riend she wants to have . . . and the kind she wants to be.

FRACASWELL “CAS” HYMAN is an award-winning television writer (Humanitas Prize, Alma Award, Peabody Award) and screenwriter (UCLA Extension Best Screenplay winner.) He is also a playwright, theater and television director, and producer who has created and executive-produced successul live-action (The Famous Jett Jackson, Romeo, Taina) and animated (Little Bill) television series or Disney and Nickelodeon. Cas lives in NC, and Mango Delight is his irst novel. You can connect with Cas on Twitter @racaswellhyman.

Praise or the hardcover edition o Mango Delight:

«“ Hyman marries traditional tween elements with a resh and original plot, and his multicultural cast sparkles with individuality and authenticity. . . . Hyman’s supporting characters, both kids and adults, are vivid and dynamic. Mango is as delight ul as her middle name indicates, and middle-grade readers will easily recognize their own experiences in her riendship struggles. This is Hyman’s irst novel; here’s hoping it’s not his last.” KEY SELLING POINTS Booklist (starred review)

Funny, sweet, poignant, and current, with a diverse and “ The characters . . . are de©ly cra©ed, and their relationships play ascinating cast o characters. out in ways that careully avoid cliché. . . . Mango’s supportive Written by an award-winning author who has produced several amily is also well drawn, particularly her comorting Jamaican successul television series immigrant ather and her no-nonsense, ormer athlete Arican- Universal themes revolving around riendship and identity American mom, who’s a loving but demanding igure. Kids who’d settle or making it through middle school unscathed but Great age-appropriate writing still dream o shining in it will ind a kindred spirit in Mango.” Bulletin o the Center or Children’s Books

“ Though this book clearly helps ill the need or minority emale leads, the universal themes it addresses give it broad appeal across ages, genders, and cultural backgrounds. A short and sweet story that will encourage deeper conversations around shame, honesty, and courage.” Kirkus Reviews

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4444 Literature & Fiction Greek Myths (Volume One) by Jacqueline Morley

Prideul Arachne, turned into a spider by jealous Athene. King Midas, given the golden touch. Hermes, the god who lies with winged sandals. This spellbinding anthology eatures some o the most gripping tales rom Greek mythology, including Prometheus stealing ire rom the gods and curious Pandora opening a orbidden box only to unleash misery on all humanity. These retellings will enchant young readers.

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Contains eight stories, including “Persephone,” “Echo and Narcissus,” “Meleager and the Blazing Log,” and “Atalanta and the Golden Apples”

Stunning color illustrations by our artists: Patrick Brooks, Oscar Galvan, Ivana G. Kuman, and Alida Massari

Introduces young readers to ancient literature

ISBN 9781910706817 $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket 88 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 ¹⁄– • Ages: 7 and UP Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers FEBRUARY 2018

Viking Myths (Volume One) by Jacqueline Morley

Here are the tales the Vikings told: o gods and goddesses, sea monsters and ice giants, lying chariots, shapechangers, cloud spinners, and cunning dwarves. These eight stories start at the world’s beginning, with one realm o ice and snow and another o ire. Discover Asgard, a stronghold o shining palaces; Loki’s secret wie in Giantland; the golden apples o immortality, and more Viking lore and legend.

JACQUELINE MORLEY studied English at Oxord University and has taught English and History. She is the author o numerous books, including award-winning historical noniction titles or children. Her books have won several TES Senior Inormation book awards.

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Contains eight stories, including “In the Beginning,” “The Making o Asgard,” “Loki’s Children,” and “The Marriage o Njord and Skadi”

ISBN 9781911242482 Stunning color illustrations by Patrick Brooks and Alessandra Fusi $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Introduces young readers to ancient literature Hardcover with Jacket 88 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 ¹⁄– • Ages: 7 and UP Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers FEBRUARY 2018

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4646 Two classic novels by Dickens, now vividly illustrated and retold in graphic-novel ­orm!

These ­ast-paced, accessible retellings remain ­aith­ul to the original text, while ­ull-color artwork adds excitement and atmosphere. Speech bubbles emphasize and enhance the retelling.

ALL BOOKS ARE: $7.95 ($10.95 CAN) • Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) • 6 ¹⁄º × 10 ¹⁄¿À Ages: 9 and UP • Carton Qty: 84 • Territory: US/Can • Scribo • MARCH 2018 Oliver Twist Retold by John Malam, illustrated by Penko Gelev

Oliver Twist, the gripping tale o an orphan boy caught among London’s thieves during the Victorian era, has long been one o Dickens’s most popular works and one requently dramatized or ilm and the stage. This graphic novel captures all the suspense and emotion o this much-loved story.

JOHN MALAM is a British author o children’s noniction books. PENKO GELEV graduated rom the National Art School in Soia in Bulgaria in 1987. He is a ilm and children’s television producer.

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A highly cinematic approach to storytelling

Footnotes explain diÄcult words and ideas Cover not inal not Cover

Supplemental material includes: brie author biography, bibliography o work on Dickens, timeline o world events during Dickens’s lie, spreads on London and its poor in the nineteenth century, inormation on the various screen adaptations o the novel ISBN 9781912233588

A Tale o­ Two Cities Retold by Jacqueline Morley, illustrated by Romano Felmang

With its sweeping historical narrative, A Tale o Two Cities brings to lie the turmoil and violence o the French Revolution and this graphic novel aithully captures the spirit o the original work.

JACQUELINE MORLEY studied English at Oxord University. She taught English and History and is the author o numerous books, including award-winning historical noniction titles or children. Her books have won several TES Senior Inormation book awards.

ROMANO FELMANG is an artist rom Rome, specializing in acclaimed illustrations or American comic strip characters such as The Phantom and Flash Gordon. His work has been published in many countries around the world.

KEY SELLING POINTS Cover not inal not Cover A highly cinematic approach to storytelling

Footnotes explain diÄcult words and ideas

ISBN 9781912233595 Includes an author bio, a bibliography o work on Dickens, a timeline and key individuals in the French Revolution, a short summary o the true story behind Dickens’s ictionalized version, and an index

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47 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, illustrations by Manuela Adreani

Few novels have been as inspirational, or have touched as many people’s hearts, as The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Now artist Manuela Adreani reimagines this enchanting literary work through her extraordinary illustrations. With rare sensitivity, Adreani ollows the tale o a downed pilot who meets a remarkable little boy in the desert and learns lessons about the nature o lie, love, and the universe.

MANUELA ADREANI has worked as a graphic artist and animator. She illustrated the volumes Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Snow White, and The Wizard o Oz or White Star Kids, and was one o the winners o the illustration contest organized or the 130th anniversary o the creation o Pinocchio.

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More than 40 ull-page and double-page color illustrations in an elegant, modern, and lively cinematic style

ISBN 9788854412545 • $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover • 80 pages (all in color) 9 •⁄¿À × 11 ¹⁄º • Ages: 8 and UP Territory: US/Can • White Star Kids MARCH 2018

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4848 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrations by Manuela Adreani

Enter the topsy-turvy world o Wonderland, where antasy reigns and the rules o reality disappear. Artist Manuela Adreani o©ers a breathtaking interpretation o Lewis Carroll’s remarkable story, capturing all its magical chaos and bringing to lie the eternally ascinating Alice, as well as the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Queen o Hearts, and others who populate Carroll’s strange and unique universe.

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More than 40 ull-page and double-page color illustrations in an elegant, modern, and lively cinematic style

The adaptation o the text, while aithul to the original, updates thelanguage and gives it an easy low, suited to the target age group or this volume, between six and nine years old

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4949 The Greatest Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm, illustrations by Francesca Rossi

Every child loves the imaginative power o airy tales, and this extensive anthology is pure The Greatest magic. The stories—including "The Sleeping Beauty," "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," and the raucous "The Brementown Musicians"—come rom three o the most renowned Fairy Tales children's authors o all time: Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen Andersen. Francesca Rossi's enchanting watercolor illustrations illuminate these classic and the Brothers Grimm stories and bring them to lie. Fairy tales include: “Cinderella,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Tom Thumb,” and “Snow White” (Brothers Grimm); “Bluebeard,” “Donkey Skin,” “The Fairies,” and “Sleeping Beauty” (Charles Perrault); and “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Tin Soldier,” “Thumbelina,” and “The Wild Swans” (Hans Christian Andersen). Illustrations by Francesca Rossi FRANCESCA ROSSI graduated rom the Scuola Internazionale di Comics (International School o Comics) in Florence. She publishes illustrated books or a number o Italian publishers, and designs book covers and posters. Francesca has illustrated many books or ISBN 9788854412576 White Star, including Classic Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, Fairy Tale Adventures, Classic $19.95 ($26.95 CAN) Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Francesca lives Hardcover-Padded in Italy. 240 pages (all in color) 8 ‘Á⁄¿À × 11 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: US/Can White Star Kids MAY 2018

The Most Beauti­ul Fables o­ Aesop, Phaedrus and La Fontaine Illustrations by Marisa Vestita

“The Hare and the Tortoise.” “The Frogs Who Desired a King.” “The Hen with the Golden Eggs.” Using appealing animals and their adventures, ables bring us bite-size messages o wisdom and teach us the secrets o human nature. This collection eatures 36 timeless tales rom Aesop, Phaedrus, and La Fontaine, all illustrated in Marisa Vestita’s colorul, contemporary, and inimitable style. Fables include: “The Crow and the Pitcher,” “The Fox and the Grapes,” and “The Lion and the Mouse” (Aesop); “The Dog and the Wol,” “The Deer at the Spring,” and “The Frogs and the Fighting Bulls” (Phaedrus); and “The Dog and Its Relection,” “The City Mouse and the Country Mouse,” and “The Jay Decked in Peacock’s Feathers” (Jean de la Fontaine)

ISBN 9788854412569 MARISA VESTITA studied painting at the Academy o Fine Arts o Lecce. In 2002 she $19.95 ($26.95 CAN) moved to Milan, where she received her irst commissions as an illustrator. Her art has Hardcover been shown in major exhibitions throughout Italy, and she has worked with major Italian 240 pages (all in color) publishing houses and magazines, including Grazia and Natural Style. 10 × 11 ‘⁄– • Ages: 4 and UP Territory: US/Can White Star Kids JUNE 2018

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5050 Ghost Stories by John Townsend

Be scared be very scared. These 10 spooky, creepy, and slightly gruesome tales will introduce children to the many pleasures o a ghost story. Kids will eel chills as they read about haunted houses, ghosts rightening and riendly, and one really terriying clown. Featuring all manner o monsters and supernatural events, this book is perect to read around the campire or under the blanket with a lashlight!

JOHN TOWNSEND worked as a secondary school teacher beore becoming a ull-time Cover not inal not Cover writer o children’s books. He specializes in un, exciting inormation books or reluctant readers, as well as ast-paced iction and “iction with acts” books.

ISBN 9781912233526 • $7.95 ($10.95 CAN) KEY SELLING POINTS Paperback • 128 pages (b/w illus. throughout) 5 × 7 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Gripping and easy-to-read text that will entice reluctant readers especially ones Territory: US/Can who like scary stories! Scribo • APRIL 2018

Pirate Stories by John Townsend

Are you on board or swashbuckling adventures? Then get ready to sail the seven seas where danger lurks in every salty shadow and there’s plenty o bloodcurdling menace. These 10 pirate stories including “Kidnap,” “The Grisly Crimes o Captain Bartelmy,” “Escape rom the Kraken,” “Blackbeard’s Gold,” and “The Mysterious Legend o Ocean Born Mary” will shiver your timber, mateys!

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Gripping and easy-to-read text that will entice reluctant readers

ISBN 9781912233519 • $7.95 ($10.95 CAN) Paperback • 128 pages (b/w illus. throughout) 5 × 7 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Territory: US/Can Scribo • APRIL 2018

Pirates: Dead Men’s Tales Incredible Facts, Maps and True Stories about Life on the High Seas Written by Anne Rooney, illustrated by Joe Wilson

Come ace to ace with some o the most villainous and scurrilous rogues ever to sail the seven seas! Travel rom North Arica to the China Seas to meet such notorious igures as Blackbeard, the Barbarossa brothers, and women pirates Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Zheng Shi. With plenty o maps, themed spreads, and true tales o a pirate’s daily lie, this book takes you on an epic adventure.

ANNE ROONEY has written more than 100 noniction books. She taught at the Universities o Cambridge and York, and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Lector. ISBN 9781783122325 • $22.95 Hardcover • 64 pages (all in color) JOE WILSON specializes in highly detailed, hand-drawn illustrations and print. Recent 9 •⁄– × 12 • Ages: 9 and UP clients include Adidas, British Airways, Faber & Faber, The New York Observer, Hiliger Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US Only Denim, and GQ Magazine. Carlton Kids • APRIL 2018

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51 Science, Nature & Technology Li­e-Sized Animal Tracks by John Townsend

Follow the tracks . . . and learn about the animals that made them! This eye-opening guide eatures to-scale representations o the prints le² by mammals and reptiles rom across the globe, rom pygmy shrews to nine-banded armadillos. Accompanied by ascinating tidbits o inormation, the lielike pictures help kids identiy creatures by their tracks, and encourage budding naturalists to explore their local wildlie.

JOHN TOWNSEND worked as a teacher beore becoming a ull-time writer o children’s books. He specializes in un, exciting inormation books or reluctant readers, as well as ast-paced iction and “iction with acts” books.

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Bite-sized, engaging, and inormative text

To-scale animal prints and other striking illustrations

Contains old-out picture o an elephant ootprint

ISBN 9781912006106 $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Hardcover • 48 pages (all in color) 10 ‘⁄º × 11 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 7 to 9 Carton Qty: 18 • Territory: US/Can Book House FEBRUARY 2018

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5353 Baby Panda Chews Bamboo by Ben Richmond

In the mountains o China a baby panda is born and this beautiully photographed noniction picture book rom the American Museum o Natural History ollows the adorable cub rom birth through adulthood. As the cub grows, he learns to swim and climb and tastes bamboo or the irst time! Fun to read and look at, Baby Panda Chews Bamboo will enchant young animal lovers.

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is one o the largest and most respected museums in the world, with an annual attendance o 5 million. Since the Museum was ounded in 1869, its collections have grown to include more than 34 million specimens and artiacts relating to the natural world and human cultures. The Museum showcases its collections in the exhibit halls, and, behind the scenes, approximately 200 scientists carry out cutting-edge research. Plan a trip to the Museum, home o the world’s largest collection KEY SELLING POINTS o dinosaur ossils, or visit online at amnh.org.

Developed with the American Museum o Natural History, the oremost natural history experts

A continuation o our AMNH series, which already includes Baby Penguin’s First Waddles, Wol Pups Join the Pack, and Baby Dolphin’s First Swim

Introduction to noniction or young readers

Educates young readers about pandas in an accessible and engaging way

Filled with beautiul nature photography

Perect gi² or any kid interested in bears or pandas

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5454 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Giants by Carolyn Scrace

Meet the giants o the prehistoric age! This brilliantly designed activity book provides hours o interactive un or young dinosaur ans, It contains our amazing press-out models and more than 150 stickers, along with plenty o bite-sized acts about these astonishing creatures, plus a pronunciation guide. There’s also a antastic landscape spread where kids can place their completed models.

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4 press-out models and more than 150 stickers to decorate them

Step-by-step instructions make building the models easy!

Lots o accessible and inormative un acts Cover not inal not Cover Pronunciations provided or each dinosaur

An appealing combination o art and science

Models include: Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Pteranodon, and Quetzalcoatlus ISBN 9781912233281 $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄º × 11 ‘⁄– • Ages: 5 and UP Carton Qty: 32 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers MARCH 2018

Sa­ari Animals by Carolyn Scrace

Why do gira©es have such long necks? How do lions live? Why is a water hole important? This entertaining activity book provides animal-loving children with plenty o acts and un! Featuring our push-out cards to construct a gira©e, lion, elephant, and crocodile, it also includes more than 150 stickers and bite-sized bits o inormation about these astonishing creatures. A landscape spread in the center holds the completed models.

CAROLYN SCRACE is an illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at Brighton College o Art in England and her career has taken her into the worlds o advertising, animation, and publishing. She specializes in children’s picture books and art guides.

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Four press-out models o a gira©e, lion, elephant, and crocodile, Cover not inal not Cover plus over 150 stickers

Step-by-step instructions make construction simple

ISBN 9781912233298 Accessible and inormative un acts about such animals as the impala, $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) hippo, rhino, zebra, and cheetah Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) Combines art and science 8 ‘⁄º × 11 ‘⁄– • Ages: 5 and UP Carton Qty: 32 • Territory: US/Can Scribblers MARCH 2018

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5555 Micro Monsters Activate Augmented Reality Minibeasts! by Camilla de la Bédoyère

These micro monsters are normally invisible to the human eye, but the digital magic in this incredible book gives you a close-up view. Fact-illed spreads provide background on each tiny beast: where it’s ound, what it does, and how it survives even in outer space. Trigger the AR action with your smartphone or tablet and awaken leas, ticks, and tardigrades magniied hundreds o times in 3D!

CAMILLA DE LA BÉDOYÈRE is a hugely popular children’s noniction author, specializing in the natural world. She has written more than 200 books or children and adults. Camilla is also a literacy teacher at a large London high school, working with children and young people who ind reading diÄcult. She is a Fellow o the Zoological Society o London. Her previous titles include 100 Facts: Rainorest (Miles Kelly) and Firely Encyclopedia o Animals (Firely Books). KEY SELLING POINTS

With up to 11 brilliant interactive experiences, this book SNEAKY AND SPEEDY FAST FACTS makes creepy and scary micro monsters appear right in The animal or plant that a parasite lives on is called a ‘host’. Fleas scurry about between the strands of hair, feathers or fur on their host. They have piercing mouthparts for inserting into 1–8 mm long esh and sucking up blood. After a blood meal females can begin FLEA to lay their eggs. Worm-like larvae hatch from the eggs and fall to ront o you digitally using the wonders o AR the ground, the oor, or the host animal’s bed where they live on Fleas jump or crawl, dried blood or adult ea faeces until they are ready to grow. There are about 2,400 species of flea, and all but cannot y. Type: Insect of them are bloodsucking parasites. Most are Found: Worldwide Habitat: In hair, feathers or fur and harmless to people, although they are often an occasionally reptile scales Incredible acts about these rarely seen creatures include irritating pest for our pets. The Oriental rat flea, Diet: Blood however, has a bad reputation because it carries the plague – a disease that can kill humans.

where you might ind them (such as in your eyelashes, on M SILKEN COCOONS When the larvae are ready to turn into adults they spin A silken cocoons around themselves and begin to transform G into jumping blood-suckers. When they emerge from their N The body of a ea is ultra-thin cocoons the eas are fully-equipped with their super I your pillow, and even on your skin) and what they look like F for slipping between hairs. springy legs. They can detect the body heat of a host animal I – or the carbon dioxide it breathes out – and leap up into its C fur, ready to start the life cycle all over again. A A cocooned larva can STERS A turn into an adult in T ON CT I M IV less than ve days. up close O O A N MICRO R T C I : I O x N 5 FACT M 0 In the 14th century THE DEADLIEST an estimated 25 million died from the Black A ea uses its long spring-like FLEA A SPRING IN Plague carried by the Use the controls in the app to make these spooky critters hind legs to leap. Most eas are just a nuisance, but the Oriental rat ea is deadly. THEIR STEP Oriental rat ea. It’s host to a bacterium called Yersinia pestis which causes a Fleas are amongst the most impressive jumpers in the animal kingdom. Watch the incredible jump terrible human disease: plague. The eas that carry plague are Many types can keep leaping for hours without getting tired, and a cat ea of the ea in slow motion. unable to feed properly, so they vomit blood and bacteria back can travel 34 cm in a single jump. That’s the equivalent of a human jumping into their hosts and immediately go in search of a new host. come to lie in multiplied lie size, rotate them or a closer This causes the plague to pass quickly through a population, A rat ea can live for more than 70 times their own body length – further than a football pitch! They can a year in the right conditions. achieve this incredible feat thanks to a pad of rubber-like material in their legs, wiping out thousands of lives at a time. Thankfully, plague is look, and make them walk or ly around the room which releases enough energy for them to accelerate at high speed. now very rare and can be treated with antibiotics.

Detailed inormation about each specimen and what integral parts they play in their environment FAST FACTS SECRET WEAPON MICRO As aphids feed on a plant’s sweet sap a huge amount of sugar enters their bodies. To avoid exploding in a Type: Insect FACT sticky mess, they pass a gooey substance out of their Found: Worldwide APHID One female aphid can give abdomen to get rid of the excess. It’s called honeydew Habitat: On plants birth to thousands of because it is sugary, but it also contains chemicals that Amazing SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) photographs Diet: Plant sap daughters in just one Look closely at the tender stems of a plant in further damage a plant. Honeydew is released from spring and summer. two tubes called ‘cornicles’. 1-8 mm long spring, and you may spy a cluster of soft, green bodies. These little bugs are feasting on the juices show what these mini bugs really look like inside the plant. It’s easy to overlook aphids, but don’t be fooled by their simple appearance. These micro monsters have a few surprises in store!

Most aphids are wingless An aphid’s colour often and stay on one plant all PESTS WITH A PLACE Aphids may be pests, but they have an important place in nature. Click on the app’s NEW iExplore eature window to access matches the colour of their lives. its host plant. Ants feed on the honeydew that aphids make, so they try to protect the aphids from other predators to guarantee they have a ready supply of honeydew. Unfortunately, many are still doomed to die in Ladybird beetles and their larvae eat aphids. the mouths of other animals as they are an essential food source for complementary educational content, eaturing acts, stats, insects, spiders, birds and frogs. STERS A ON CT M IV A O T R I quizzes, and much more C O I N SUPER M FEMALES Female aphids can reproduce without mating! GREENFLY This incredible skill is called parthenogenesis. Aphids are true bugs and are also known as green ies – although they The rst eggs that hatch in spring are all females can be other colours including black, pink or yellow. They are bugs with and they make clones (identical copies of 5 Watch incredible aphids six legs and soft, squashy bodies and antennae. Some aphids also have 4 themselves). This way of reproducing is fast and x crawl around your room! wings. Aphids feed by using their sucking mouthparts to pierce plants N: simple because the females don’t have to nd and drink their sap. They are often found near the soft and tender parts IO mates – and a population of aphids can rapidly T explode in number. These females don’t lay eggs: of plants, such as ower buds and leaf buds. Removing sap damages MAGNIFICA plants, but aphids can cause even greater damage by spreading they keep the eggs inside themselves and give diseases between species. birth to nymphs, which rapidly grow into adults.

FAST FACTS PATHOGENS Although many bacteria are harmless, Viruses Bacteria AND or even essential to life on Earth, others Human cell Microscopic Microscopic VIRUSES spread disease like viruses. These are called pathogens. Viral pathogens cause measles,

yellow fever, u, rubella and even the Viruses common cold. Bacterial pathogens cause skin infections, food poisoning and tooth Type: Microorganisms BACTERIA decay, as well as deadly diseases such as Found: Worldwide A cell, magnied 50,000 times, is attacked by the virus that typhus and plague (see pages 8–9). Habitat: Everywhere causes deadly yellow fever. Diet: Viruses do not eat. Bacteria eat what The most important members of the micro monster community they live on, or make food by photosynthesis. are bacteria and viruses. These microscopic life-forms are found everywhere on Earth! They are far too small to be seen with the naked eye, and not even a regular microscope is powerful Scientists use enough to zoom in on a tiny virus. powerful electron VIRAL ATTACK microscopes to A virus is a strange type of life-form that challenges see viruses and our idea of what a ‘living thing’ actually is. It cannot bacteria. exist on its own, so it must hijack another organism, VIRUS MICRO invading its cells and forcing them to make copies of the virus. Eventually, the cells die but the virus FACT spreads and infects other healthy cells. Viruses are In 1918–19 a deadly The deadly Ebola virus the smallest living things yet discovered, and they kills between 25 and 90 type of u virus spread are so small that scientists can only study them Protein 0 coat percent of those infected. 0 rapidly around the world, using electron microscopes. ,0 killing more than 2 1 20 million people. Strand of genes x instead of a : nucleus N O GOOD BACTERIA I Without bacteria there would be no humans, or even life on BACTERIA WHAT’S THE T CA Earth as we know it! This is because bacteria produce oxygen DIFFERENCE? IFI – the gas that humans and other animals need to breathe. Cell A single bacterium is one cell with DNA inside and N Bacteria were some of the rst living things on planet Earth wall Cell AG membrane a cell wall. Some types also have tails called agella M and around three billion years ago they had released enough that allow them to swim. A virus is just a simple unit oxygen into the atmosphere for more complex types of life Cytoplasm Chromosome made up of DNA coated in a layer of protein – it’s not instead of a to start to appear. They do other important jobs too: bacteria nucleus a full cell. Bacteria are bigger than viruses and can in the human gut help to break down our food so we can use Bacteria (green) in the stomach reproduce themselves, whereas viruses have to it for energy. They also help decompose animal bodies and can be harmless, but in large Flagellum AUGMENTED REALITY attach themselves to other cells in order to multiply. dead plants, and are used to make cheese and medicines. numbers they can damage the stomach’s lining (purple). ISBN 9781783122561 • $14.95 Hardcover-Padded • 32 pages (all in color) 10 ‘⁄º × 9 • Ages: 8 and UP Territory: US Only Carlton Kids MARCH 2018

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5656 Bugs Interact with Augmented Reality Creepy Crawlies by Hannah Wilson

Want to watch a Goliath bird-eating tarantula crawl across your table or the world’s biggest butterly lutter around your bedroom? All it takes is this book and a smartphone or tablet! With its unique high-tech eatures, plus 11 act-packed proiles covering size, habitat, diet, and more, iExplore Bugs lets kids interact with nature’s most remarkable creepy-crawlies. Just open the app to trigger the AR action and have un. HANNAH WILSON is an accomplished writer and editor o children’s books who lives in Exeter, UK. Her books include Flip the Flaps: Jungle Animals, published by Kingisher; Time or Bed, Tiger!, rom Templar; and Lie-Size Reptiles rom Pavilion.

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ISBN 9781783122530 Kids will come ace to ace with a lie-size giant tarantula, an Emperor Scorpion, a Praying $14.95 (NCR) • Hardcover-Padded Mantis, driver ants, a giant centipede, an Asian Giant Hornet, and more 32 pages (all in color) Use the controls in the app to make the bugs lie-size or bigger, rotate them or a closer 10 ‘⁄º × 9 • Ages: 7 and UP 3D look, and make them walk or ly around the room Carton Qty: 24 • Territory: US Only Carlton Kids Click on the app’s NEW iExplore eature window to access complementary educational content, eaturing acts, stats, quizzes, and more MARCH 2018 Dramatic, ull-color photographs and dynamic design are sure to inspire a sense o wonder and awe in nature

Jurassic World Special Edition From DNA to Indominus Rex! by Caroline Rowlands

Make the terror-inspiring dinosaurs rom the Jurassic World series come alive with amazing AR! This thrilling Special Edition eatures a brilliant overview o both the trilogy and Jurassic World, and includes brand-new proiles or Tyrannosaurus rex, Indominus rex, and Velociraptor, as well as other avorites. Cutting-edge augmented reality lets you take control o lie-size dinosaurs, connect with riends on other devices in dual-user mode, and trigger multiple dinosaurs at once.

CAROLINE ROWLANDS has written activity, educational, and storybooks or children ranging rom preschoolers to teens. She has also worked on many popular children’s brands and licensed properties. Caroline wrote Carlton Kids’ blockbuster hit o 2015, Jurassic World: AUGMENTED REALITY Where Dinosaurs Come to Lie.

ISBN 9781783122660 KEY SELLING POINTS $14.95 (NCR) • Hardcover-Padded 32 pages (all in color) Jurassic World: From DNA to Indominus Rex! is the sequel to the highly successul Carlton 10 ‘⁄º × 9 • Ages: 8 and UP title Jurassic World: Where Dinosaurs Come to Lie, which has sold more than 400,000 Carton Qty: 24 • Territory: US Only copies worldwide

Carlton Kids More than 20 years a²er the release o Jurassic Park, the brand remains culturally MARCH 2018 relevant; it is one o the most successul ilm ranchises o all time, extending into sequels, merchandise, interactive games, and theme park attractions

Features photographic stills and illustrations rom the Jurassic Park trilogy as well as Jurassic World

Uses the most advanced augmented reality: readers can walk a lie-size Jurassic Park dinosaur across the loor, photograph riends with avorite dinosaurs rom across the movie series, and connect with another device in dual-user mode to roam and explore

Includes incredible new AR sequences with lie-size Mosasaurus, Pteranodon, and Anklosaurus, and you can take a ride in the Gyrosphere!

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57 How Tall Was a T.rex? by Alison Limentani

Everyone’s ascinated by T.rex and wants to know what this big, earsome creature was really like. How tall was it? Did it have scales or eathers? Find out! This graphically striking and innovative exploration o the world’s scariest dinosaur o©ers loads o eye-opening acts and un comparisons or example, a T.rex was as long as six lions and its teeth were as big as bananas that budding paleontologists will love! ALISON LIMENTANI has a degree in Animal Behavior and worked as a zookeeper beore training as a veterinary nurse. Her irst picture book, How Much Does a Ladybug Weigh? (Boxer), earned abulous reviews and made the New York Public Library’s Best Books or Kids list in 2016. Cover not inal not Cover

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Author/illustrator is an extraordinary new talent who made the New York Public Library’s Best Books or Kids 2016 list

Dinosaur books are always really popular with young children, and booksellers!

Perect ollow-up to How Much Does a Ladybug Weigh? and How Long Is a Whale?

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5858 Amazing Animal Homes by Chris Packham, illustrated by Jason Cockcro©

Travel around the world to see di©erent animal habitats, rom honeybees that live together in hives to snails that hibernate in their shells during winter. You’ll meet a tree-dwelling ru°ed lemur; snow leopards that take shelter in a cave; porcupines that dig burrows underground; and animals who carry their homes around on their backs. Filled with ascinating acts and beautiul illustrations, this is a wonderul noniction picture book.

CHRIS PACKHAM presented the BBC’s children’s series The Really Wild Show beore setting up his own TV company and making wildlie shows or ITV, National Geographic, Animal Planet, and the BBC. He is currently presenting BBC’s Springwatch and Autumnwatch. Chris lives in Southampton, England. Visit him at chrispackham.co.uk.

JASON COCKCROFT is an award-winning illustrator, best known or his internationally acclaimed picture book illustrations and his cover art or the inal three Harry Potter books. He is also an accomplished watercolor artist and portrait painter whose work has been exhibited in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and London. In 2009, his irst novel or children, Counter Clockwise, was published in the US by HarperCollins. Visit him at jasoncockcro².co.uk. KEY SELLING POINTS

Chris Packham’s expertise is combined with beautiul art by award-winning illustrator Jason Cockcro²

Animal homes and domestic lives are explored through narratives combined with interesting acts

Includes extra inormation about each species discussed at the back o the book

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ISBN 9781454930075 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Hardcover with Jacket • 32 pages (all in color) Amazing Animal Journeys 9 ¹⁄Ç × 10 È⁄Ç • Ages: 4 and UP ISBN 9781454919056 • $14.95 ($16.95 CAN) Territory: US/Can/Philippines Hardcover with Jacket • 9 ¹⁄Ç × 10 È⁄Ç Sterling Children’s Books Territory: US/Can/Philippines MAY 2018

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5959 Planet Earth by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Federica Fragapane

Kids can explore Earth’s secrets with this guide that eatures cool inographics, colorul illustrations, and scientiic data. It zooms right in, with 16 di©erent plates that illuminate everything rom the atmosphere to the ocean depths, icy tundra to hot deserts, and tiny bugs to gigantic elephants. Learn about nature’s record breakers, like the longest river, highest mountains, and astest animal. It’s a un journey o discovery!

FEDERICA FRAGAPANE is a reelance designer and illustrator who works or a number o publishing houses and magazines, including Condé Nast, the RCS MediaGroup, and Corriere della Sera – La Lettura.

CHIARA PIRODDI is a psychologist and a child psychotherapist. She is the author and coauthor o scientiic publications in the ield o neuropsychology and teaching methods or children with learning diÄculties.

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Teaches children about conservation and ecology: by the end o the book they’ll understand why we’re the planet’s guardians and must care, respect, and nurture Earth, our home

A visually exciting and easy-to-grasp way or kids to learn about science

ISBN 9788854412460 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Hardcover • 72 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 •⁄– • Ages: 8 and UP Territory: US/Can White Star Kids JUNE 2018

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6060 Coding ­or Kids 2 Create Your Own Animated Stories with Scratch Text by Coder Kids, illustrations by Valentina Figus

With this un guide, even children new to coding can learn how to tell their own stories! Starting rom simple, two-dimensional drawings, Coding or Kids 2 teaches students how to build animations . . . and gradually make them more complex. Using Scratch 2.0, the ree so²ware created by the MIT Media Labs speciically or young people, the book provides step-by-step instructions, projects arranged by diÄculty, and a series o challenges or older readers.

CODER KIDS was ounded by Johan Aludden and Federica Gambel in order to teach children in a simple, intuitive way how a computer works and use the technology on which it’s based.

VALENTINA FIGUS has worked as a reelancer or several publishing companies, creating digital interactive books, applications or iOS and Android systems, Kiosk book apps, graphic layouts, and banners or social networks and websites. For Coder Kids, she illustrates video game assets and creates commercial advertising. ISBN 9788854412187 $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) KEY SELLING POINTS Hardcover • 96 pages (all in color) A un approach to coding using Scratch 2.0, ALSO AVAILABLE 6 ¹⁄º × 9 • Ages: 8 to 12 a programming community created by the Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: US/Can Lielong Kindergarten Group to encourage White Star Kids creative young people to develop and share Coding ­or Kids interactive games, animations, and stories MARCH 2018 ISBN 9788854411883 Consists o ully tested, one-o-a-kind projects $12.95 ($14.95 CAN) that provide a complete overview o Scratch and Hardcover • 6 ¹⁄º × 9 Territory: US/Can that can also be personalized

How to Think Like a Coder by Jim Christian

So you want to think like a coder? This accessible, un book makes it easy, with puzzles and exercises that help you think logically, work within constants, and deconstruct problems. You won’t even have to turn on the computer! It turns everyday situations into opportunities to develop coding skills and become comortable with the basics rom learning the language and di©erent types o data to algorithms, loops, conditional statements, unctions, variables, and debugging.

JIM CHRISTIAN is a developer, consultant, and coounder o FireTech Camp Australia, a technology camp teaching kids how to make awesome things with technology. He is the author o How to Code in Minecra© (Dennis Publishing). He lives in London.

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A back-to-basics guide or absolute beginners, whether adults or children no prior experience required! ISBN 9781849944458 $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) The perect starting point or enthusiastic amateurs or children to train their brains to think Hardcover • 144 pages (50 color illus.) like a coder 7 ¹⁄– × 9 ¹⁄º • Ages: 8 and UP Fun, engaging exercises provide a solid oundation or the next stage o your Carton Qty: 20 coding journey Territory: US/Can/Mex/SA/CA Batsord MARCH 2018

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61 History The Story o­ Titanic ­or Children by Joe Fullman

More than a century a²er it crashed into an iceberg, the Titanic remains as compelling as ever. Now children can explore its beautiul sundecks, marvel at the luxurious design, and relive the tragic sinking o the world’s most amous ship. Rich in visual detail, this insightul look at the unolding disaster will hold kids spellbound with intriguing acts and real-lie stories.

JOE FULLMAN's work includes The Ultimate Guide to Music published by Carlton Books.

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New in paperback

NEW IN PAPERBACK Bite-sized text and beautiully detailed illustrations o the ship make this captivating story accessible to children ISBN 9781783123353 $12.95 (NCR) Fascinating real-lie stories o Titanic’s victims and survivors bring this book to lie Paperback • 48 pages (160 color & b/w photos & illus.) 11 ‘⁄– × 9 Á⁄– • Ages: 8 and UP Territory: US Only Carlton Kids MARCH 2018

American Maverick The Story o John MCain by John Perritano

Known or his willingness to stand up to his own party, Senator John McCain has been called a "maverick." This ascinating biography covers McCain's lie, rom his childhood as the son o a our-star admiral, to his service as a pilot, experience as a POW, and political lie as a senator and presidential candidate. American Maverick will appeal to a generation o kids ages 8 and up eager to understand more about one o our nation's most iconic political orces.

JOHN PERRITANO is an award-winning journalist, writer, and editor rom Southbury, CT. He has written numerous history books and biographies or young adults and adults, and his work has been published by Time/Lie, National Geographic, Scholastic, and others. He holds a

Cover not inal not Cover Master’s Degree in American History.

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ISBN 9781454931355 Features 50 photos $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) During these politically charged times, children want to learn about the orces that shape our Paperback • 192 pages government 7 × 9 • Ages: 8 to 12 McCain is greatly admired by people on both sides o the aisle both or his lietime o service Territory: W in the military, the Congress, and Senate, and or his continued courageous service in the Sterling Children’s Books ace o a 2017 brain tumor diagnosis MAY 2018

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6363 Reference & Study Aids Every kid—€rom grades 2 through 5—can go on a €un math adventure!

Through this combination o­ storytelling and entertaining activities, even reluctant learners can grasp basic mathematical principles and begin to love the world o­ numbers. Each book has lots o­ color­ul stickers to place on the pages. An addition to the bestselling Flash Kids line o­ books.

ALL BOOKS ARE: $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) • Paperback • 72 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄º × 11 ¹⁄º • Territory: US/Can/Philippines • Flash Kids • APRIL 2018

Math Adventures Grade 2 Math Adventures Grade 3

Edited by Linda Bertola, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi Edited by Linda Bertola, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi

In a village hidden in the woods, animals live, work, play, and sometimes Welcome to the kingdom o airy tales, where kids get to meet a talking even quarrel. Led by a wise owl, second graders can wander through this cricket, practice their math, and play games with some very well-known enchanted space. As they visit the town, they’ll decode recipes, count characters. They’ll lead Tom Thumb and Thumbelina to their homes by cookies, and practice their addition, subtraction, and logic and problem- coloring the right numbered path; igure out how many tasks Snow White solving skills. has to complete; help a blundering witch prepare her potions, and more!

ISBN 9781411479067 • Ages: 7 and UP ISBN 9781411479074 • Ages: 8 and UP

Math Adventures Grade 4 Math Adventures Grade 5

Edited by Linda Bertola, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi Edited by Linda Bertola, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi Come along with the wizard’s apprentice as he guides you through Oh, no: the evil Mister X has smashed an ancient tablet containing all the a very special castle. There you’ll discover powerul potions, secret numbers o the world and i Tommy and Tina can’t mend it by midnight, passages, mazes, and more. But it seems the apprentice needs a little every number will disappear orever! Are Tommy and Tina up to the help remembering his magic ormulas. Using a little addition, subtraction, mission? Fi²h-graders can help them succeed by doing calculations to multiplication, division, and other math skills, ourth-graders can save avoid traps, iguring out which ootprints to ollow, and solving puzzles to the day! enter an enchanted tower.

ISBN 9781411479081 • Ages: 9 and UP ISBN 9781411479098 • Ages: 10 and UP

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6565 Give preschoolers the gi– o€ learning with these Montessori-inspired early childhood activity books and boxes!

Each o­ these ­irst boxes ­eatures hands-on jigsaw-style activities to help children master basic concepts, as well as an accompanying booklet that explains what to do. They do more than simply stimulate learning through play: they enhance the child’s cognitive development. The activities become progressively more complex according to the three stages o­ a child’s learning: getting to know the material through sensory experience, recognizing the material, and being able to explain the material.

The Montessori Method Animal Puzzles by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi ANIMAL PUZZLES A Preschool Activity Kit This box is illed with animal puzzle un, and engaging activities that teach children about some avorite creatures including deer, owls, oxes, and seals and their habitats. It contains: • 24 tiles, corresponding to as many animals

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Includes instructions for parents! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ • A colorul poster depicting our habitats: savanna, jungle, orest, and the polar regions • 4 panels with 24 removable animals to decorate the poster

ISBN 9781454930839 • A manual explaining the activity, as well as useul tips to help you urther $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) your knowledge o the Montessori educational approach and apply it to your Kit • 16 pages (ull-color book) + 16 cards everyday lie 6 Á⁄– × 5 ‘⁄º • Ages: 3 to 5 Territory: US/Can/Philippines KEY SELLING POINTS Sterling Children’s Books There are an estimated 4,500 Montessori schools in the United States

MAY 2018 Montessori is a method trusted by many parents and education experts, and these activity books are unique in ollowing that method

Bright colors and resh designs make these a standout addition to the early education market

Each box contains 16 cards and a 16-page booklet

The Montessori Method Color Puzzles by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi COLOR PUZZLES A Preschool Activity Kit Red strawberry. Blue car. Yellow sunlowers. Brown shoe. With these bright, appealing cards, children will learn to recognize and distinguish all the colors o the rainbow and their di©erent hues, rom light to dark. The box contains: • 13 panels with removable tiles eaturing the hues identiied by Maria Montessori, plus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Includes instructions for parents! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ various colored objects • A poster illustrating the color wheel • A manual explaining the activity, as well as useul tips to help you urther your knowledge o the Montessori educational approach and apply it to your ISBN 9781454930860 everyday lie $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Kit • 16 pages (ull-color book) + 16 cards CHIARA PIRODDI is an expert in neuropsychology who works at the Hospital Niguarda Ca’ 6 Á⁄– × 5 ‘⁄º • Ages: 3 to 5 Granda in Milan, Italy. She has worked with children o all ages, including those with severe Territory: US/Can/Philippines mental and physical disabilities. Sterling Children’s Books AGNESE BARUZZI has written and/or illustrated more than 40 children’s books that have MAY 2018 been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, France, South Korea, and the United States. She is the illustrator o the beautiul laser-cut editions o Peter Pan, The Wizard o Oz, Beauty and the Beast, and Hansel and Gretel (all Sterling).

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6666 The Montessori Method Animals by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi ANIMALSA Preschool Activity Book

Lots o animals live in the Chestnut Wood rom a awn and a ox to a wild boar and a bear. They’re all di©erent colors and sizes, and have their own habits, too. Young children will learn to recognize these woodland creatures as they color in a butterly, count the porcupine’s quills, ollow the hawk’s light path, and place stickers everywhere!

KEY SELLING POINTS ★ ★ ★ Includes more than 50 stickers! ★ ★ ★

There are an estimated 4,500 Montessori schools in the United States

Montessori is a method trusted by many parents and education experts; these activity books are unique in ollowing that method ISBN 9781454930846 • $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) Bright colors and resh designs make these a standout addition to the early Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) education market 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Ê⁄Ë • Ages: 3 to 5 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Each book includes 8 pages o stickers! Sterling Children’s Books • MAY 2018

The Montessori Method Backyard BACKYARD by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi A Preschool Activity Book

Step into the backyard and get to know all the plants and animals that live right there in your garden! This cheerul book introduces children to nature as they connect each bee to its nest, count the ladybugs, search or aphids and snails, place stickers on the water lilies, and help a little baby mole get back to its mother through the underground tunnels.

★ ★ ★ Includes more than 75 stickers! ★ ★ ★

ISBN 9781454930853 • $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Ê⁄Ë • Ages: 3 to 5 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books • MAY 2018

The Montessori Method Farm by Chiara Piroddi, illustrated by Agnese Baruzzi

FARMA Preschool Activity Book

Welcome to Harmony Farm, where children will meet goats, sheep, pigs, horses, chicks, and more! There’s lots o entertaining things to do here: color in Charlie the rabbit’s vegetable patch; count how many eggs Stella the hen has laid; igure out which animals le² their ootprints in the house; and cut out pictures o sheep and cows and stick them on a cardboard base!

★ ★ ★ Includes more than 75 stickers! ★ ★ ★ CHIARA PIRODDI is an expert in neuropsychology who works at the Hospital Niguarda Ca’ Granda in Milan, Italy. She has worked with children o all ages, including those with severe mental and physical disabilities.

AGNESE BARUZZI has written and/or illustrated more than 40 children’s books that ISBN 9781454930877 • $8.95 ($11.95 CAN) have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, France, South Korea, and the Paperback • 48 pages (all in color) United States. She is the illustrator o the beautiul laser-cut editions o Peter Pan, The 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Ê⁄Ë • Ages: 3 to 5 Territory: US/Can/Philippines Wizard o Oz, Beauty and the Beast, and Hansel and Gretel (all Sterling). Sterling Children’s Books • MAY 2018

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67 Sight Words Puzzles and Games by Shannon Keeley

Sight words are the most commonly used words in the English language and when children learn to recognize them, they’re one important step closer to reading success. This engaging workbook introduces aspiring readers to all 220 sight words. Along with un activities, each section includes a review that tests readers’ understanding beore they move on.

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Parents love Flash Kids workbooks or being accessible and educationally sound

Learning sight words puts kids on the path to being successul readers

Engaging games and activities keep readers interested while learning Cover not inal not Cover Previous Flash Kids materials on sight words have sold well: Flash Kids Complete Book o Sight Words (9781411449589) has sold almost 50,000 copies; Flash Kids Sight Words Flash Cards (9781411434806) has sold 220,000 copies; and Flash Kids Sight ISBN 9781411479043 Words Level A (9781411404908) has sold over 35,000 copies $19.95 ($22.95 CAN) ALSO AVAILABLE Paperback • 576 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 4 to 8 Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: W The Complete Book Sight Words (Flash Flash Kids o­ Sight Words Kids Flash Cards) FEBRUARY 2018 ISBN 9781411449589 ISBN 9781411434806 $19.95 ($22.95 CAN) $3.95 ($4.95 CAN) Paperback • 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– Card Deck • 3 ‘⁄º × 5 ‘⁄º Territory: W Territory: W

How to Learn Chinese by Freya Yang

Master Chinese . . . e©ortlessly! This guide or the absolute beginner uses games, engaging stories, simple tracing, diagrams, and other un activities to teach kids the undamentals o Mandarin. Students will gain proiciency in pinyin: they’ll learn pronunciation, perect pitch and tone, grammar, and vocabulary, and practice writing Chinese characters. Written by native speaker Freya Yang, this modern language book is perect or enthusiastic beginners.

FREYA YANG has worked with various language agencies and now is a private tutor in London, teaching students aged 5–50. She is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker and has lived in Beijing.

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Fall in love with this ascinating language and ignite a passion or a captivating, and increasingly important, culture

The easiest guide to the basics o Mandarin Chinese, suitable or the ISBN 9781849944557 absolute beginner $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Lots o extra inormation about the roots o the language as well as points on culture Hardcover • 144 pages (50 color illus.) and etiquette to help you communicate e©ectively 7 ¹⁄– × 9 ¹⁄º • Ages: 8 and UP Carton Qty: 20 Territory: US/Can/Mex/SA/CA Batsord MARCH 2018

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6868 Crushing the Common App Essay by Julie Ferber Frank

It may be the most important essay o a student’s lie so make it perect! With candor, humor, and tons o tips, Crushing the Common App Essay helps kids brainstorm college application essay ideas, with inspiring examples to use as a model and real-lie admissions success stories. It’s concise and action-oriented in order to motivate teens. And parents who want to support without hovering will love it too!

JULIE FERBER FRANK received a BA in Humanities at UC Berkeley and an MFA in Screenwriting rom the USC School o Cinematic Arts. She has written proessionally or ilm and television and has worked as a college application essay writing coach with students accepted at Harvard, Stanord, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and many other top universities.

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Uses humor and a strong voice that teens will enjoy

Useul inormation helps high school students cra² the perect college entrance essay

Contains lots o helpul sample essays

Leads kids step by step through the writing process

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ISBN 9781411479104 $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Paperback 5 ‘⁄“ × 8 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 15 to 18 Carton Qty: 60 • Territory: W SparkNotes MAY 2018

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6969 SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience ­un!

When a paper is due, and exams loom, here is the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and ­aster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations o­ key themes, moti­s, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is per­ect ­or late-night studying and paper writing. Includes: • An A+ Essay an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book to show students how a paper should be written • 16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary o literary terms • Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay • A eature on how not to plagiarize

Paperback • $5.95 ($7.50 CAN) • 5 ‘⁄º × 8 ‘⁄º • Territory: W • SparkNotes • FEBRUARY 2018

The Handmaid’s Tale SparkNotes Literature Guide

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about the subjugation o women in a uturistic society has received renewed interest recently, thanks to both current events and a hit TV adaptation. With the help o this SparkNotes guide, students and other readers will be able to make the most o this renowned book which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Booker Prize and better understand its complex themes.

ISBN 9781411479111

A Wrinkle in Time SparkNotes Literature Guide

Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Award-winning masterpiece has entranced young people since it was irst published more than 50 years ago. With its mix o science iction and antasy in- cluding quantum physics plus a strong and smart emale protagonist, it holds a unique place in the annals o children’s literature. This SparkNotes guide helps readers uncover the ull richness and detail o this timeless work.

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New ilm adaptation, starring Mindy Kaling, Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, and Oprah Winrey, is scheduled or release in March 2018

ISBN 9781411479128

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7070 Unusual Facts

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71 How Things Are Made: Volume 2 by Oldrich Ružicka, illustrated by Alexandra Hetmerová

Children always want to know how things are made and this un, eye-catching book provides the answers. Featuring six large gateolds and li²-the-lap booklets throughout, it’s ull o engrossing and easily understandable acts that help demystiy the world. Kids will learn how the internet works, money is produced, computer games are created, cars are built, electricity is generated, and homes are constructed. Curious young minds will be educated and entertained or hours!

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A great companion to How Things Are Made, the irst book in the series

Featured items like the internet, electricity, and computer games all under STEM category

Includes un, bite-size acts

Large gateolds and booklets are sure to keep children occupied and engaged ISBN 9781454929710 $16.95 ($22.95 CAN) Hardcover • 36 pages (all in color) ALSO AVAILABLE 9 ‘⁄º × 10 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 6 to 10 Carton Qty: 13 Territory: US/Can/Philippines How Things Are Made: Volume 1 Sterling Children’s Books ISBN 9781454920854 APRIL 2018

The Big Scream! The Creepiest, Most Disgusting, Horrifying Things You Should Know

World-amous monsters. Deadly dinosaurs. Inexplicable phenomena. Get ready to SCREAM! This quirky, kooky, and ever-so-slightly creepy compendium eatures 100 entries about some o the scariest and weirdest things ever! Packed with vibrant cartoon-style illustrations, it looks at everything rom ruthless rulers, cursed mummies, and murderous pirates to hideous beasts, rozen bodies in the snow, and airplanes that seem to vanish mysteriously into thin air.

DAVID ANTRAM was born in Brighton, England. He studied at Eastbourne College o Art in the UK and worked in advertising or 15 years beore becoming a ull-time illustrator. David has since illustrated well over 100 titles, mainly or children and young adults, including around 60 in the bestselling You Wouldn’t Want to Be series (Children’s Press).

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The scary subject and unny, easy-to-read text are perect or reluctant readers

Cover not inal not Cover Along with the un chills, kids will also learn historical and scientiic acts in an entertaining way

Quirky and colorul illustrations ISBN 9781912233670 $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Paperback • 208 pages (all in color) 7 ¹⁄º × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 7 and UP Territory: US/Can Scribo MARCH 2018

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7272 Totally Gross & Awesome

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Paperback • 128 pages (b/w illus. throughout) • 5 × 7 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Carton Qty: 100 • Territory: US/Can • Scribo • MAY 2018

Animal Facts & Jokes Body Facts & Jokes by John Townsend, illustrated by David Antram by John Townsend, illustrated by David Antram

What do you call an elephant that never washes? A smellyphant. This Did you know that every time you sneeze you kill thousands o brain smart, entertaining book combines inormation with gut-busting gags cells? Or that in your lietime, you’ll eat over 35 tons o ood the weight so it’s totally gross and awesome! Kids will LOL as they learn such cool o about seven elephants? This entertaining collection tells you all about and yucky things as: many creatures make piles o poop their home. your body, rom bacteria and sweat glands to gas, stomach-churning And they’ll love sharing these riddles, quips, and bite-sized actoids with horrors, inections, gunk, and leaks. Every kid will enjoy the yuck actor their riends! and hilarious jokes!

ISBN 9781912233625 ISBN 9781912233632

History Facts & Jokes Science Facts & Jokes by John Townsend, illustrated by David Antram by John Townsend, illustrated by David Antram

Take a gross and unny trip back in time. Learn all about Roman toilets Enjoy a little un, oul science! Find out about stinky space stations, (which were never cleaned!), ood in the Middle Ages (stu©ed porpoise disease busters, criminal orensics, and, o course, pure geniuses and mad stomach), and creepy cures (boiled worms), as well as executions, the scientists. Children will love every one o these weird and crazy acts and Black Death, and jobs you’d NEVER want to do. Even as you shudder at jokes, whether they’re about long-ago alchemists who tried to create gold once was, you’ll laugh out loud at the hysterical historical jokes, riddles, rom urine or a proessor o physics who made dead rogs’ legs twitch limericks, and puns! with electricity.

ISBN 9781912233649 ISBN 9781912233656

JOHN TOWNSEND worked as a teacher beore becoming a ull-time writer o KEY SELLING POINTS children’s books. He specializes in un, exciting inormation books or reluctant readers, as well as ast-paced iction and “iction with acts” books. Humorous and engaging text that will attract reluctant readers DAVID ANTRAM studied at Eastbourne College o Art in the UK and then worked Fun and quirky illustrations in advertising or 15 years beore becoming a ull-time illustrator. He has since illustrated well over 100 titles, mainly or children and young adults.

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7373 Hobbies, Crafts & Activities

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7474 Build It

ALL BOOKS ARE: $17.95 • Hardcover • 16 pages (ull-color book + 6 sheets o model pieces) • 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 ‘⁄“ Ages: 7 and UP • Territory: US Only • Carlton Kids • FEBRUARY 2018

Build It: Airplane by Jonny Lambert

Build this bright-red Beechcra² Staggerwing model biplane and get ready or takeo©! Measuring 11 inches long and with a 13-inch wingspan, it’s super-easy to construct: no scissors, glue, or mess. Just press out the pieces rom the boards, and slot them together. Along with photographic step-by-step instructions, the book includes cool acts about the plane and the history o light.

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Highly illustrated model pieces with easy-to-ollow assembly instructions or accuracy

The model has wheels that turn and a propeller that spins

Additional pilot and ground crew characters to display with your plane

Includes a 16-page section containing instructions, the ascinating story o the Beechcra² ISBN 9781783123438 Staggerwing, and a general history o aviation

Build It: Dinosaur by Jonny Lambert

What’s that crashing through the swamp? It’s a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with its mouth wide open and its sharp teeth showing. Though you can practically hear it roar, this 3D dinosaur is actually made o paper and is tons o un to create. The book eatures plenty o ascinating acts, a un quiz, and stunning imagery o this king o the dinosaurs.

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Beautiul 18-inch model to build yoursel or with a parent, no glue or scissors required

Highly illustrated model pieces recreate a living T. rex

Easy-to-ollow assembly instructions

Contains 16 pages o inormation + 6 pages o press-out eatures ISBN 9781783123032

Build It: Dragon by Jonny Lambert

All this dragon model is missing is the ire! Kids will love displaying this stunningly illustrated paper beast in their rooms and they’ll have un putting it together, too, because it’s so simple. The book includes lots o amazingly earsome acts, as well as striking pictures o these magniicent lying creatures.

JONNY LAMBERT was most recently Group Design Director at Templar Publishing, where his expertise helped create and expand the Ology, Maurice Pledger, and Snappy brands. Now working reelance, he is a talented illustrator with over 300 titles to his name, and also works as a designer, pop-up, and model paper engineer.

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ISBN 9781783123025 Beautiul model with a 23-inch wingspan to build yoursel or with a parent, no glue or scissors required

Highly illustrated model pieces recreate this avorite imaginary beast

Easy-to-ollow assembly instructions

Includes a 16-page book + 6 pages o press-out eatures

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7575 Drawing Cartoons ­rom Numbers Create Fun Characters from 1 to 1001 by Christopher Hart

Drawing can be as easy as 1, 2, 3! With this entry in his popular Drawing Shape by Shape series, bestselling author Christopher Hart has created his most inventive characters yet. Each one begins with a number, and the detailed, step-by-step instructions make it simple to construct each clever and delightul image. With numbers ranging rom 1-1001, children can learn art and practice counting, too!

With more than seven million copies o his books sold, CHRISTOPHER HART is the world’s leading author o art instruction books. His titles requently appear on the Bookscan Top 50 Art list. They also have a huge international audience, having been translated into more than 20 languages. In his more than 50 titles, he o©ers artists accessible, KEY SELLING POINTS generously illustrated, and clearly written step-by-step instruction on a wide variety o how-to-draw subjects, including manga, igure Christopher Hart is the bestselling art instruction author in the drawing, cartooning, comics, ashion, and animals. US; his books have sold more than seven million copies

This is the newest addition to the successul Drawing Shape by Shape series, which has sold more than 230,000 copies total!

Drawing with numbers is a great new way to engage children in learning basic art and counting skills

With simple, colorul artwork that’s easily accessible or children, this is the perect how-to-draw book or kids

The covered spiral binding allows the book to lie lat or easy use

ISBN 9781640210127 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Paperback Concealed Spiral • 176 pages (all in color) 10 ‘⁄“ × 8 • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: WENG Drawing with Christopher Hart MARCH 2018

7676 Backlist

Drawing Animals Shape by Shape ISBN 9781936096954 • $14.95 ($16.95 CAN) Paperback Concealed Spiral • 10 ‘⁄“ × 8 • Territory: WENG

Drawing Cartoons Letter by Letter ISBN 9781942021537 • $14.95 ($16.95 CAN) Paperback Concealed Spiral • 10 ‘⁄“ × 8 • Territory: WENG

Drawing Shape by Shape ISBN 9781936096411 • $14.95 ($16.95 CAN) Paperback Concealed Spiral • 10 ‘⁄“ × 8 • Territory: WENG

7777 Ballet School Sticker Book by Margot Channing, illustrated by Ela Smietanka

Discover the wonderul world o ballet and decorate each colorul scene, too! Fill eight dance-packed pages with over 350 reusable stickers eaturing dancers, costumes, stage props, and more. Along with bite-sized bits o ballet trivia, each spread contains un things to ind and count. A treasure hunt at the end gives kids a chance to go back and spot things they might have missed.

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Features both boy and girl dancers o diverse backgrounds

Has more than 350 reusable stickers

Includes a treasure hunt activity at the end

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Can you add more dancer stickers? Who is wearing this polka-dot skirt? Can you point to this ballet dancer? Pliés and Pirouettes ISBN 9781912233168 $5.95 ($7.95 CAN) Can you find this pattern?

Paperback • 32 pages (all in color) rope?this find you Can 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 5 to 7

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Rain­orest Sticker Book by Margot Channing, illustrated by Jean Claude

Step inside the rainorest and decorate these vibrant pages with over 350 antastic stickers o jaguars, monkeys, toucans, sloths, butterlies, and more! Learn all about the rainorest’s canopy and understory, its lora and auna, and its exploitation. Each spread gives kids things to look or, ind, and count, along with un acts and questions and there’s even a treasure hunt at the end.

MARGOT CHANNING is an art school graduate and a reelance author and illustrator. She works on books or young children, mainly baby, novelty, and activity titles.

JEAN CLAUDE is a sel-taught illustrator living and working in the northeast o England. His work ranges rom activity and sticker books to designing characters or children’s clothing.

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Over 350 reusable stickers

Treasure hunt activity

ISBN 9781912233175 “I-spy” games to encourage discussion and interaction $5.95 ($7.95 CAN) Paperback • 32 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 5 to 7 Carton Qty: 50 Territory: US/Can Scribblers FEBRUARY 2018

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7878 Fashion Drawing Inspirational Step-by-Step Illustrations Show You How to Draw Like a Fashion Designer by Carolyn Scrace

What inluences the best ashion illustrators? What materials do they enjoy working with? This inspirational beginner’s guide eatures 15 leading ashion illustrators who explain their entire process, step by step, using beautiul and diverse examples rom their own sketchbooks. Learn how to get correct proportions; turn sketches into completed drawings; illustrate men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing; create a mood board, ollow a brie, and produce the inished illustration; and more.

CAROLYN SCRACE is an illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at Brighton College o Art in England and her career has taken her into the worlds o advertising, animation, and publishing. She specializes in children’s picture books and art guides. Cover not inal not Cover

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Highly detailed step-by-step illustrations ISBN 9781912233687 $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Clear and easy-to-ollow text

Paperback • 64 pages (all in color) Inspiring interviews with 15 ashion illustrators, along with beautiul 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 12 and UP examples o their work Territory: US/Can Scribo MARCH 2018

Rainbow Origami 8 Projects to Make in 7 Colours of the Rainbow Eight projects, paper in seven beautiul colors: this gorgeous pack gives you everything you need to make 56 brilliant and bright origami shapes! Easy-to-ollow instructions explain how to old a crane, butterly, or ish, and recreate it in all seven shades or an eye-catching rainbow design. Ideas or using the multihued projects range rom having a boat race to arranging a bouquet o lilies and constructing a mobile.

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Eight creations are repeated in seven colors each, resulting in a wonderul rainbow origami e©ect

These large-ormat origami igures make gorgeous room decorations, gi² tags, or birthday-party games

The rainbow theme, simple step-by-step instructions, and gorgeous photography set this ISBN 9781783122622 book apart rom other children’s origami packs $14.95 (NCR) • Paperback Fun or origami novices 160 pages (48pp instructions + Includes 56 sheets o 9 ¾ × 9 ¾ origami paper larger than usual! 56 ull-color origami sheets) 9 ¹⁄º × 9 ¹⁄º • Ages: 6 and UP Carton Qty: 16 Territory: US Only Carlton Kids JUNE 2018

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7979 The Book o­ Me My Life, My Style, My Dreams by Imogen Williams and Ellen Bailey, illustrated by Chellie Carroll

Fill in the blanks, answer the quizzes and questionnaires, and jot down your hopes or the uture! The Book o Me is a special journal where tweens and teens can create a lasting record o exactly who they are. It covers everything rom the best-ever sleepovers, avorite songs and movies, and beauty wish lists to school surveys, best-kept secrets and dreams, career goals, perect vacation destinations, personal style, and more!

ELLEN BAILEY grew up in Cambridge, England, and spent her childhood making up games, putting on plays, and writing a magazine or all the children living on her street. She lives with her husband and baby daughter, and is the author o a variety o bestselling activity books, including All About Me (Buster Books).

ISBN 9781454929062 $12.95 (NCR) • Paperback 128 pages (all in color) 9 ¹⁄º × 7 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 9 to 11 Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: US/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books MARCH 2018

M.A.S.H.: School's Out!

Tweens can have more M.A.S.H. un with our second book on the popular ortune-telling game—this time eaturing a summer theme that looks at summertime crushes, jobs, vacations, and more. An introduction explains the rules, each section includes several copies o the game so kids can play more than once, and there’s even a classic version o M.A.S.H. to try at the end. And just as with the irst M.A.S.H. collection, cute, doodle-y spot art appears throughout.

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8080 Shape Shenanigans by Agata Królak

Spark children’s imaginations with the ideas in this resh, orward-thinking activity book! Every page prompts them to complete a picture using di©erent shapes, rom decorating a sweater with a pattern made o circles and squares to giving an athlete geometric tattoos. Plus, children can create a logo, solve mazes, connect the dots, and add un to their work with eight pages worth o stickers.

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Fun, graphic designs set these activity books apart

An outlet or children to express their creativity and stimulate their imagination

Interesting prompts help to get young artists started on their artistic journey

Includes more than 100 stickers

Can you make a pretty pattern for this sweater? Use just circles and squares. ISBN 9781454929307 $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Paperback • 64 pages (all in color)

8 ‘⁄º × 11 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Write your name with letters made Territory: US/Can/Philippines of squares. Sterling Children’s Books APRIL 2018

Spots, Splashes, and Fingerprints Fun by Agata Królak

Who needs a brush when you have ingers? With just their own hands, kids can complete this imaginative collection o un pictures. The prompts will start them o©, and then their imaginations can go wild decorating pillows with patterns, creating a spotted code, making ingerprint clouds to hide the sun, and so much more!

AGATA KRÓLAK is a visual artist based in Gdańsk, Poland, where she is a PhD student and an assistant teacher at the Academy o Fine Arts. Her work has been showcased in New York, Paris, Tokyo, London, Brussels, and around Poland.

Use your fingerprints and give this poodle a nice hairdo!

ISBN 9781454929314 $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) Paperback • 64 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄º × 11 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books APRIL 2018

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81 A €antastic and €un series—with 600 STICKERS!—to delight little learners.

Children can have hours o­ ­un decorating illustrations and learning about the world with the new Little Learners series. There are eight pages o­ cute designs, and each page ­eatures things to look ­or, ­ind, and count, along with questions to stimulate young minds. Going to School by Margot Channing, illustrated by Ilana Exelby

What will new students ind when they go to school? This book helps them prepare! It takes kids into the classroom where they’ll learn all about science, math, art, storytime . . . and recess too! Along the way young readers will have un answering questions, searching or patterns, and looking or amiliar objects.

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Bright, colorul illustrations

Kids get more than 600 stickers to use or decorating busy scenes

Fun “I spy” games around the edge o each page to encourage

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Features characters who will appear throughout the entire series

PROOF DUMMYWho COPY is wearing this pattern? What colour is the sea monster?PROOF DUMMY Where COPY is the purple snail? PROOF DUMMYWho COPY is blowing a whistle? Can you find the telescope?PROOF DUMMY COPYCan you see the birds? ISBN 9781912233304 Geography Playtime What is Matilda drawing? Who is riding a blue bicycle? $5.95 ($7.95 CAN) Paperback • 32 pages (all in color) How many trees can you see? can you trees How many

• How many compasses can you find? 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– Ages: 3 to 5 elephants? find two grey you Can

Carton Qty: 50 Can you see the kite? Territory: US/Can Scribblers Where is the little yellow fish? fish? yellow is the little Where How many penguins can you find? penguins can you How many

Where is the Eiffel Tower? Whose arm is this? Who is drawing a rabbit? Can you see the little mouse? 7 Can you find the lunchbox? Who is skipping? How many glasses can you find? Who is wearing pink shoes? 11 MARCH 2018 6 PROOF DUMMY COPY PROOF DUMMY COPY 10 PROOF DUMMY COPY PROOF DUMMY COPY

Going to Town by Margot Channing, illustrated by Ilana Exelby

Let’s take a walk round the town and see what’s happening there! Young children will enjoy taking a peek at the di©erent vehicles on the road; the bakery, supermarket, and other small shops; and the garage. Along the sides o each spread, un questions encourage them to count, ind, and point to the many things they’ve ound and there are 600 stickers or decorating the pages!

MARGOT CHANNING is an art school graduate who works as a reelance children’s book author and illustrator. She has created books or young children, mainly baby, novelty, and activity titles.

ILANA EXELBY graduated rom Lincoln University with a BA in Illustration in 2010. She lives in Huddersield, UK. Cover not inal not Cover

Where is the sunflower? Who is pushing a trolley? Where is the white cat hiding? Town Who is playing music? How many birds can you see? Can you point to the clock? Supermarket square Can you see the train arriving? Can you see this pattern?

ISBN 9781912233311 $5.95 ($7.95 CAN) is this pattern? Where How many boxes of eggs can you see? see? boxes of eggs can you How many Who is wearing pink shoes? Paperback • 32 pages (all in color) Can you point to Kitty? 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 •⁄– • Ages: 3 to 5

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12 Who is picking up a lettuce? Can you find three green things? Can you find this pattern? How many flower baskets are there? 13 4 Who is cooking? Can you see the orange flowers? How many windows are there? Where is the streetlight? 5 Scribblers MARCH 2018

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8282 3D Jungle Animal Masks Designed by Wintercro©

Unleash your inner animal! Kids can go wild with these our amazing jungle masks, which capture some o the most special endangered creatures on earth. Choose rom a colorul parrot, elephant, tiger, and chimp you just have to press out the pieces and glue them together. It’s so simple! They’re perect or Halloween, a school play, a party, or everyday un with riends.

STEVE WINTERCROFT is a paper engineer and the brain behind Carlton’s successul Fox and Skull. He is currently working on Carlton’s incredible Game o Thrones wall-mount masks.

KEY SELLING POINTS

The popular 3D Wintercro² hal-masks now available or kids!

Each mask is reversible. One side is illustrated, the second on uncoated art board, which kids can color in and decorate themselves

Easy-to-ollow photographic step-by-step instructions make each mask simple or kids to assemble

The perect gi² or party accessory

Masks are all made rom eco-riendly recyclable material, and paper sourced rom sustainable orests

ISBN 9781783122639 • $14.95 (NCR) Paperback with Slipcase 32 pages (16pp booklet + 16 press-out sheets) 9 ¹⁄º × 9 ¹⁄º • Ages: 6 and UP Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: US Only Carlton Kids MARCH 2018

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8383 Fantastical Beasts Create Your Own Mysterious 3D Scenes Illustrated by Patricia Mo“ett

Build your own magic 3-D world where dragons, basilisks, and laming phoenixes live. Just color the 22 cards, mix and match them any way you like, and slot them into the base to create di©erent scenes. Look through the window and watch the mystical layered image, with its abulous creatures and erocious beasts including grindylows, centaurs, the three-headed dog named Cerberus, and howling werewolves.

PATRICIA MOFFETT is an illustrator and designer working in her studio in Wales. ISBN 9781783122585 She has helped create many successul books, and has more than 30 years’ experience $14.95 (NCR) • Paperback in publishing. 48 pages (24 b/w double-sided press-out sheets) 9 Á⁄¿À × 6 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 7 and UP KEY SELLING POINTS Territory: US Only Carlton Kids Contains easily detachable card sheets, illustrated with striking artwork. Each card is double-sided, which allows or many creative options or personalized scenes MARCH 2018 The cards can be assembled and played with again and again to build a di©erent scene each time

Eye-catching illustrations make this a gorgeous gi² purchase or any ans o antastic beasts

Undersea Kingdom Create Your Own Magical 3D Scenes Illustrated by Anna Stiles

Create your own magical 3D underwater world with these 22 mix-and-match cards! Go below the waves with this enchanting interactive book o three-dimensional scenes, and dive into mermaid palaces, shipwrecks, colorul coral, and shimmering shoals o ish. Kids can color in the cards, put them into the base, and then arrange them in countless combinations. This cool and creative coloring kit will spark children’s imaginations.

ANNA STILES is a graphic artist rom East London, who is inspired by a love o travel, ISBN 9781783122592 music, and reading. $14.95 (NCR) • Paperback 48 pages (24 b/w double-sided press-out sheets) 9 Á⁄¿À × 6 ‘⁄“ • Ages: 7 and UP Territory: US Only Carlton Kids MARCH 2018

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8484 These €un activity books—with more than 150 stickers, a per€orated stencil sheet, and art paper—are per€ect €or creative kids ON THE GO!

Creativity on the Go: Dragons by Andrea Pinnington

Calling all brave maidens and knights in shining armor this book is or you! Step into the awesome world o ire-breathing beasts, and learn all about dragons as you color, puzzle, and play. Draw something in every room o the dragon’s castle, ollow the lines to see where each dragon lives, and complete dot-to-dots. Dragon ans will have hours o un!

KEY SELLING POINTS

Whether kids are at home or out and about, this activity book will keep them entertained

Activities include drawing, coloring in, dot-to-dots, mazes, and more

Includes more than 150 stickers, a perorated tear-out stencil sheet, and art paper

ISBN 9781783121731 $12.95 (NCR) • Paperback 80 pages (ull-color book + 2pp stickers + stencil sheet) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Á⁄– • Ages: 6 and UP Carton Qty: 40 Territory: US Only Carlton Kids APRIL 2018

Creativity on the Go: Pirates by Andrea Pinnington

Come join the pirates as they sail the seven seas! Follow a earsome bunch o buccaneers on their exciting adventures and learn how to become top pirate. As you work your way through this amazing activity book, you’ll get to make up your own pirate story based on a series o pictures, draw your own treasure map, solve puzzles, and more!

ANDREA PINNINGTON has written and edited all kinds o books or children and is the creative whiz behind a stack o children’s cra² and activity books. She lives in Guildord, Surrey.

ISBN 9781783121762 $12.95 (NCR) • Paperback 80 pages (ull-color book + 2pp stickers + stencil sheet) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Á⁄– • Ages: 6 and UP Carton Qty: 40 Territory: US Only Carlton Kids APRIL 2018

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8585 Roller Coaster Marble Run Designed by Andrew Gatt

Get ready or un with this easy-to-build marble run roller coaster! Just press out the pieces, assemble them with glue or adhesive tape, and let the races begin. The track has a switcher and two unnels, so the winning marble is always a surprise. The base o the book becomes a secure stand or the model, and there are easy-to-understand explanations o underlying science.

ANDREW GATT is the creator o PaperRollerCoasters.com. He has sold more than 4,000 paper marble tracks to all 50 states in the US and over 30 countries worldwide. He is also a physics teacher in North Carolina, and received the 2004 Presidential Award or Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Presented by the White House, it is the nation’s most prestigious teaching award or math and science teachers.

ISBN 9781783122684 • $19.95 (NCR) Paperback 68 pages (24-pp booklet + 44 pp o model pieces) 10 ‘⁄º x 11 ¹⁄º • Ages: 7 and UP Carton Qty: 15 • Territory: US Only Carlton Kids JUNE 2018

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8686 Minecra† Master Builder Toolkit All You Need to Create Your Own Masterpiece! by Joey Davey, Jonathan Green, Juliet Stanley

Become a Minecra² master builder! With advice on everything rom wow-actor windows to remarkable roos, this amazing manual gives players step-by-step instructions on constructing 15 antastic, one- o-a-kind buildings. Make a Mushroom Mansion, Treetop Lodge, Sky Fortress, Polar Outpost, Rollercoaster, and more. Projects are ranked according to diÄculty, and this un interactive guide will inspire children aged 9-plus as well as ans o all ages. JONATHAN GREEN is a writer o speculative iction, with more than 65 books to his name. He has written or IPs ranging rom Doctor Who to Sonic the Hedgehog, Robin o Sherwood, and LEGO.

JOEY DAVEY started playing Minecra² as a kid and never stopped! His Minecra²ing skills combined with his design training have produced some stunning creations.

JULIET STANLEY is a ormer teacher and educational publishing specialist. She is also a keen Minecra²er who can break down complex builds into easy-to-understand steps.

KEY SELLING POINTS

Focuses on building and creating structures, buildings, and objects within the Minecra² world

Simple-to-ollow, step-by-step instructions or 15 constructions, divided into ive themes, that have been specially created by expert Minecra²ers or this book

Each build is rated an Easy, Intermediate, or Master Build; a list o materials is provided or each project, plus guidance on how long each build will take

Full o ascinating Minecra² acts, igures, and trivia, it also includes hints and tips on how to master the game, plus inspirational proiles o the game’s most amazing constructions

Played by more than 150 million registered users, Minecra² is arguably the world’s greatest and most inluential online game, giving aspiring master builders the opportunity to create amazing structures that push the limits o the imagination

ISBN 9781783122905 • $11.95 (NCR) Paperback 72 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 10 Á⁄– • Ages: 9 and UP Carton Qty: 46 • Territory: US Only Carlton Kids MARCH 2018

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87 Humor The Universe’s Greatest Dinosaur Jokes and Pre-Hysteric Puns by Artie Bennett

What does a Pteranodon get a©er lying too long? PTIRED! I there are two things every kid loves, it’s jokes and dinosaurs. So they’ll go crazy or this comic collection o puns, knock-knocks, and one-liners about their avorite creatures plus other prehistoric beasts. Loaded with wacky humor and unny business, this book is guaranteed to ignite sidesplitting laughter.

ARTIE BENNETT is an executive copy editor by day and a writer by night. In praise o Artie's books or children, The Hu±ngton Post wrote, “It appears there is no topic Mr. Bennett can’t make unny and educational.” Artie is the author o our hilarious picture books: The Butt Book, which won the Reuben Award (Bloomsbury); Peter Panda Melts Down!; Belches, Burps, and Farts—Oh My!; and Poopendous! (all Blue Apple). In addition, he has written two joke books, The Universe’s Greatest Dinosaur Jokes and Pre-Hysteric Puns and The Universe’s Greatest School Jokes and Rip-Roaring Riddles (both Sterling). Artie and his wie, Leah, live in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more at ArtieBennett.com.

KEY SELLING POINTS

Fun or both boys and girls

Dinosaurs = a perennial, beloved topic or kids!

Fits in spinner rack

Includes a variety o jokes (puns, knock-knocks, one-liners, and many more!)

Assorts nicely with other Sterling joke books

ISBN 9781454929840 • $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) Paperback • 96 pages (all in 2-color) 5 ¹⁄– × 8 ‘⁄º • Ages: 5 to 12 Territory: W Sterling Children’s Books MARCH 2018

HUMOR

8989 Puzzles & Games

PUZZLES & GAMES

9090 When school’s out, and vacation time is here, these puzzles—created by the expert editors at Puzzlewright—will keep kids entertained €or hours!

You’re never too young to start having ­un with puzzles! Each o­ these books in the Puzzlewright Junior imprint contains age- appropriate puzzles to introduce kids to the challenges and pleasures o­ solving. Children will love the ­resh look and clever clues in these collections.

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Paperback • 96 pages • 5 ¹⁄– × 8 ‘⁄º Carton Qty: 123 • Territory: W • Puzzlewright Junior • MAY 2018

Crossword Puzzles Dot-to-Dot Puzzles ­or Vacation ­or Vacation by Trip Payne by Conceptis Puzzles

Crosswords are a great way or children Kids will enjoy these 70 entertaining to exercise their brain and have un dot-to-dot puzzles, with cool images with words—and these 40 kid-riendly that eature skateboarding, videogame puzzles are perect or starting them o©. playing, animals, holiday themes, and more. Each puzzle has between 100–120 dots, and while most are consecutive, a ew have a multi-line style that o©ers a ISBN 9781454929574 more challenging experience. Ages: 8 to 12

ISBN 9781454930235 Ages: 8 to 12

Hangman Puzzles Picture Maze Puzzles ­or Vacation ­or Vacation by Jack Ketch by Conceptis Puzzles

Wherever they go, or need something Double your un with these special cool to do, young solvers can pull out picture puzzles! First, kids can enjoy the this book and play the popular game o challenge o completing a maze. When hangman. Each o the 90 puzzles has the they're inished solving the puzzle, they 26 letters o the alphabet: choose one can color in the correct path and see a you think is in the phrase, scratch it o©, cool image hidden inside. and see i it's used. Make sure to solve the puzzle beore you run out o turns!

ISBN 9781454929611 Ages: 7 to 11 ISBN 9781454929581 Ages: 8 to 12

Sudoku Puzzles Word Search Puzzles ­or Vacation ­or Vacation by Frank Longo by Mark Danna

77 puzzles will introduce kids to the Children love to do word searches—and challenging and rewarding un o sudoku. these rewarding puzzles help develop With its resh look, this new Puzzlewright their language and reading skills too! Junior book is sure to be popular with Each book contains 58 puzzles that will any child. keep kids entertained or hours.

ISBN 9781454929598 ISBN 9781454929604 Ages: 8 and UP Ages: 5 to 11

PUZZLES & GAMES

91 Great €or trips, rainy days, or downtime, these expertly cra–ed puzzles €rom Puzzlewright Junior are just right €or bright kids!

ALL BOOKS ARE: $6.95 ($9.50 CAN) • Paperback • 96 pages • 5 ¹⁄– × 8 ‘⁄º

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Crossword Puzzles ­or Bright Kids Hangman Puzzles ­or Bright Kids by Trip Payne by Jack Ketch Young wordsmiths will have un working on these 40 crosswords, made Kids love hangman, and with these 90 scratch-o© puzzles they can play just or kids beginning to solve puzzles. anywhere and anytime even when no one else is around.

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Picture Maze Puzzles ­or Bright Kids Sudoku Puzzles ­or Bright Kids by Conceptis Puzzles by Frank Longo

These 77 puzzles have a cool twist! First, kids get to complete a maze. Sudoku is smart un or kids! They’ll enjoy exercising their brain and Then, when they’ve successully mastered that challenge, they can enjoy building their logic skills as they solve these 77 rewarding puzzles. coloring in the path and watching a picture emerge as they draw.

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9292 Hidden in Nature Search, Find, and Count! by Agnese Baruzzi

From sharp-teethed sharks in the sea to lions in the savannah and owls in the orest: animals are hidden everywhere! Keen-eyed kids can show o© their counting and observational skills as they pore through a wonderul menagerie in Agnese Baruzzi’s lushly designed environments. On the side o every spread there are small drawings o all the animals in the picture plus a box where children can write down the number o

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ISBN 9781454929376 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Innovative new activity book that will keep children busy or hours Hardcover • 56 pages (all in color) Agnese Baruzzi’s wonderul illustrations ill the pages to create rich scenes 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: US/Can/Philippines Readers will explore a range o environments and understand the way di©erent Sterling Children’s Books • APRIL 2018 groups o animals live

Giant Mazes Search, Find, and Count! by Agnese Baruzzi

Eagle-eyed children will have un mastering both a maze and a number challenge as they count their way to the inish line o these elaborate, animal-packed mazes. There’s just one correct route, and it’s up to young solvers not to get distracted by the hundreds o colorul creatures they meet. Small pictures o each animal in the maze appear on the bottom o the page with a box to write down how many there are.

Cover not inal not Cover AGNESE BARUZZI has written and/or illustrated more than 40 children’s books that have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, France, South Korea, and the United States. She is the illustrator o the beautiul laser-cut editions o Peter Pan, The ISBN 9781454929369 • $14.95 ($19.95 CAN) Wizard o Oz, Beauty and the Beast, and Hansel and Gretel (all Sterling). Hardcover • 56 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books • APRIL 2018

Puzzle Masters Dot to Dot Extreme Puzzle Challenges for Clever Kids by Sarah Wade

Kids will enjoys hours o un as they ollow the hundreds o dots on every page to reveal a striking picture. Ranging rom a cute and cuddly koala and a colorul toucan to a cupcake, snowlake, and rocket ship, these extreme puzzles each eature our cryptic clues to help you igure out what’s hidden in the image. So young puzzle masters will learn some ascinating acts, too!

SARAH WADE is a reelance designer and illustrator based in the UK. She started her career working in-house or two o the UK’s market leaders within the greeting card industry. There, she designed gi²wrap as well as social stationery products or ISBN 9781454929031 • $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) High Street chains. Her work has been commissioned widely or a variety o products Paperback • 64 pages (all in color) 11 Ê⁄Ç × 11 Ê⁄Ç • Ages: 9 to 11 including children’s books, textiles, wallpaper, ceramics, and jewelry. Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: US/Can/Philippines Sterling Children’s Books • MARCH 2018

PUZZLES & GAMES

9393 Sports

PUZZLES & GAMES

9494 Soccer Record Breakers by Clive Gi“ord

From the FIFA World Cup and Copa América to the record-breakers o Major League Soccer, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the Bundesliga, and the English Premier League, this updated edition o Soccer Record Breakers captures every aspect o the game. With superb acts and stats delivered in bite-size chunks, all illustrated by dynamic photos o the sport’s superstars, it is a must-have or soccer ans o all ages.

CLIVE GIFFORD is an award-winning author o over 150 books or children and adults. These include Eye Benders: The Science o Seeing and Believing (Barron’s Educational Series), winner o the prestigious Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize in 2014.

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Packed with astounding acts and statistics about a host o the most amous names in the world’s most popular sport, and has been ully updated to include all the records rom the 2016–17 league seasons around the world

With superb acts and stats delivered in bite-size chunks, all illustrated by dynamic NEW EDITION photos, it is a must-have or soccer ans o all ages ISBN 9781783123407 • $14.95 (NCR) Paperback • 128 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 ‘⁄º • Ages: 8 and UP Carton Qty: 20 Territory: US Only Carlton Kids FEBRUARY 2018

Gareth Bale The Ultimate Fan Book by Iain Spragg

Follow soccer superstar Gareth Bale’s amazing journey rom the Cardi© suburbs to Europe’s most successul club, Real Madrid. Also a mainstay o the Welsh national team, Bale led it to the semiinals o the 2016 UEFA European Championship. Filled with lively writing, un eatures, antastic photographs, and enlightening quotes, this ultimate an book celebrates Bale’s greatest moments and most amous goals.

IAIN SPRAGG is a highly respected sports journalist who has reported on almost every major sport over the last 20 years. As well as writing or many British national newspapers, he has penned many books on a variety o sporting topics, including, in this Carlton Books series, Cristiano Ronaldo: The Ultimate Fan Book.

ISBN 9781780979946 • $11.95 (NCR) Hardcover • 64 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 10 and UP Carton Qty: 20 Territory: US Only Carlton Books FEBRUARY 2018

SPORTS

9595 The Oµcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Fact File by Kevin Pettman

Nothing beats the sporting spectacle o the World Cup, and this oÄcial act ile or kids helps them get ready or the excitement o Russia 2018. Illustrated with more than 120 amazing images, it presents all 32 teams, plus proiles o 36 star players, including Thomas Müller, Antoine Griezmann, Lionel Messi, Neymar, and Cristiano Ronaldo. Along with special eatures, there’s a ill-in match chart or ans to complete as the drama unolds.

KEVIN PETTMAN is a sports writer and editor o children’s magazines and annuals, including Match o the Day and Match. He is also a regular contributor to Top Gear’s annuals and children’s titles.

TEAM GUIDE TEAM GUIDE Captain: Hugo Lloris Captain: Manuel Neuer Coach: Didier Deschamps Coach: Joachim Löw Route to Russia: Winners – Route to Russia: Winners – France UEFA Group A Germany UEFA Group C

Finals appearances: 14 Finals appearances: 18 Group X Champions: 1998 Group X Champions: 2014, 1990, 1974, 1954 It was 20 years ago when France first won the FIFA Players to watch: The reigning FIFA World Cup champions go to Players to watch: World Cup. They reached the final in 2006 too, only Antoine Griezmann: penalty box Russia with an impressive qualifying campaign Mesut Özil: clever pass master predator Thomas Müller: versatile to lose a dramatic penalty shoot-out to Italy, and Paul Pogba: midfield dynamo behind them. World-class talent such as Thomas goal poacher in 2018 they are dreaming of winning the famous Dimitri Payet: free kick hero Müller and Mesut Özil crushed Norway, Czech Mario Götze: speedy, skillful striker golden trophy for a second time. This year they have Republic and Northern Ireland as they stormed the goals of Antoine Griezmann, the midfield power to their 16th FIFA World Cup finals in a row. of Paul Pogba and the tricks Germany are the only country to appear in and flicks of Dimitri Payet eight finals, winning four of them, and in their line-up. Coach only once have they failed to reach Didier Deschamps was the the quarter-final stage. The team man who captained France to is based on a rock-solid defence that famous win in Paris in 1998. led by Bayern Munich’s brilliant With him in charge, those dreams keeper Manuel Neuer, and could become a reality in Russia bristles with goal potential this summer. thanks to Müller, Özil, Mario Antoine Mesut Griezmann was Gómez, Toni Kroos, André Özil created 17 the top scorer at Schürrle and Mario Götze. scoring chances at UEFA EURO 2016, the 2014 FIFA World with six goals. Cup, behind only 7 Lionel Messi. Antoine Griezmann wears the number Cover not inal not Cover seven shirt for France… and he scored seven goals in France’s FIFA World Cup . © FIFA, FIFA’s O±cial Licensed Product Logos, and the Emblems, Mascots, Posters and qualifying group Trophies o the FIFA World Cup™ tournaments are copyrights and/or trademarks o FIFA. Manuel Neuer has been named the World’s Best 224 Paul Pogba was Goalkeeper four That’s how many Manuactured under licence by Carlton Books. voted Best Young years in a row. FIFA World Cup finals Player at the 2014 Hugo Lloris FIFA World Cup. has captained goals Germany have France in 58 games – scored – three more more times than any other player. than Brazil.

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An oÄcial guide, endorsed by FIFA Bite-sized proiles o star players are accompanied by more FIFA World CupTM Stars Neymar in-depth proiles o every team kids will love to have this FORWARDS Country: Brazil Club: Barcelona (Spain) Born: 5 February 1992 book open as they watch the tournament unold 76 GAMES 51 GOALS

Top skills: Neymar is the captain, star Includes a match-by-match results chart to ill in striker and talisman of the Brazil team. The fearsome forward has the speed, skill and deceptive strength to beat the world’s best defenders and has an impressive record of 21 goals from only 36 appearances at FIFA finals Packed with amazing quick-ire Super Stats, giving unusual tournaments, with just four defeats. At Barcelona he links up superbly with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez. With Brazil his attacking team-mates or record-breaking acts about past FIFA World Cups Philippe Coutinho, Gabriel Jesus Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Luis Suárez and Roberto Firmino help him bang in the goals and beat goalkeepers Country: Argentina Country: Portugal Country: Uruguay from all angles. Club: Barcelona (Spain) Club: Real Madrid (Spain) Club: Barcelona (Spain) Born: 24 June 1987 Born: 5 February 1985 Born: 24 January 1987

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Top skills: One of the most Top skills: Cristiano Ronaldo has Top skills: Uruguay’s record famous players on the planet and transformed from a tricky right goalscorer is like a machine when maybe the best of all time, Messi’s winger into the most feared striker he enters the penalty area – if the magical skills are truly out of this in world football. He has the ball is at his feet, it’s pretty much world. He can play in any attacking speed, power, skills and vision to guaranteed to hit the net a few position and with his sharp brain score big goals in big games – seconds later! Suárez is super and lethal left foot, Messi loves and he has won the EUROs, UEFA accurate with shooting and can to burst into the penalty area and Champions League, La Liga, tease and trick his way past bend, blast or roll the ball past the Premier League and FIFA Club defenders thanks to his clever mesmerised keeper. Despite being World Cup in his awesome career. close control. The striker is a real small, Messi has no fear against Ronaldo will shoot with either foot team player as well, and is not only th tough defenders and will dribble and is remarkably accurate with desperate to score but to win each 50 his way into dangerous positions. headers. He is yet to really shine time he steps onto the pitch. He Neymar scored his 50 Alongside attackers Sergio Agüero, at a FIFA World Cup, scoring a recorded five goals in eight games goal for Brazil against Ángel di María and Gonzalo modest three in 13 games, but his across the 2010 and 2014 Higuaín, he can be unstoppable. record of 22 goals in 32 qualifiers tournaments – this year he will be rivals Argentina in shows just how deadly he is. aiming to reach double figures. November 2016.

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ISBN 9781783123377 • $12.95 (NCR) Hardcover • 64 pages (all in color) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 10 and UP Territory: US Only Carlton Kids APRIL 2018

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9696 The Oµcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Kids’ Handbook by Kevin Pettman

When it comes to sports, nothing equals the World Cup and young soccer ans will ind a wealth o inormation about the event in this colorul, compact handbook hosted by Zabivaka, mascot or the upcoming Russian games. Meet the super strikers and midield masters, ind out the di©erent prizes players can scoop up in Russia, and get the best stats, puzzles, quick quizzes, photos, stickers, and more.

KEVIN PETTMAN is a sports writer and editor o children’s magazines and annuals, including Match o the Day and Match. He is also a regular contributor to Top Gear’s annuals and children’s titles.

KEY SELLING POINTS Cover not inal not Cover Packed ull o incredible FIFA World Cup acts and records

Featuring Zabivaka, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ mascot, this book is bursting with inormation about the host country, Russia, plus the stadiums, star players, and ISBN 9781783123384 • $9.95 (NCR) FIFA World Cup acts and stats, as well as loads o games and quizzes Paperback • 48 pages Fill-in progress chart lets young ans record match results as the tournament (ull-color book + sticker sheet) progresses, making this book a great personalized souvenir o the 2018 FIFA 7 ‘⁄“ x 9 Á⁄– • Ages: 8 and UP World Cup! Territory: US Only Includes antastic reusable soccer stickers Carlton Kids APRIL 2018

The Oµcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Activity and Colouring Book

Excitement is building or the greatest soccer competition on earth, and this winning mix o World Cup-related puzzles, games, doodles, and stickers is guaranteed to appeal to kids. Zabivaka, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ mascot, appears throughout the book, and all the activities ocus on the teams and top players who will light up the 2018 games. It’s a great gi² or any young sports an.

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Great variety o activities including simple quizzes, doodles, games, sticker activities, word searches, coloring in, and spot the di©erence will keep children entertained or hours

More than 150 reusable stickers

Featuring Zabivaka, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ mascot Cover not inal not Cover

ISBN 9781783123391 • $9.95 (NCR) Paperback Spiral-Bound • 16 pages (ull-color book + 2 pp stickers) 8 ‘⁄“ × 11 • Ages: 5 and UP Territory: US Only Carlton Kids © FIFA, FIFA’s O±cial Licensed Product Logos, and the Emblems, Mascots, Posters and Trophies o the FIFA World Cup™ APRIL 2018 tournaments are copyrights and/or trademarks o FIFA.

Manuactured under licence by Carlton Books.

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9898 Two beauti€ul albums celebrate sacred moments in the li€e o€ a Christian.

My Baptism Album Illustrations by Elena Veronesi

My Baptism marks a baby’s entrance into the lie o aith even i the child is still too young to understand and is equally signiicant to those who come together to celebrate the BAPTISM inant: parents, godparents, amily, and riends. Gather all your memories o this special ALBUM and emotional day in this beautiul album, enhanced with delicate illustrations and ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELENA VERONESI meaningul prayers.

My Baptism

The day of the Baptism The priest who baptized me was called

When I was baptized, I was months old

The ceremony was held in the Church The psalms, prayers and letters from the Bible that he chose for me ISBN 9788854412446

$12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Hardcover 64 pages (color illus. throughout) 9 •⁄– × 9 •⁄– Territory: US/Can White Star Publishers MAY 2018

My Communion Album Illustrations by Elena Veronesi

First Communion is a central moment in Catholic lie and a joyul event or children My embarking on this big step and or their amilies. Remember it all with this elegant COMMUNION souvenir album, with pages or saekeeping photographs, writing down the priest’s ALBUM words, and noting the hymns and psalms sung during the ceremony. Signiicant prayers ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELENA VERONESI appear throughout the album, emphasizing the proound meaning o Communion.

ELENA VERONESI is an Italian illustrator. She started her career as a graphic designer and has worked as creative director and trainer in the ield o visual communication. In the last ew years, she has ocused on her greatest passion: drawing. She talks about this in her blog and on her Facebook page. For White Star she has illustrated The Pregnancy Journal, More than Counting, and More than Drawing.

The Lord’s Prayer ISBN 9788854412453 $12.95 ($17.50 CAN) Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hardcover hallowed be Your name. 64 pages (color illus. throughout) Your kingdom come, Your will be done, 9 •⁄– × 9 •⁄– on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, Territory: US/Can and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, White Star Publishers and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. MAY 2018 Amen.

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1 + 1 =5: And Other Unlikely Additions Clip-Clop • 2016 Nautilus Grand/Gold Winner or Middle (9781402759956) (9781905417605) Grade Fiction • 23rd Annual Minnesota Book Awards • 2007 Texas 2x2 Reading List Nominated • 2013 Grand Canyon’s Reader Award • 2017 Silver Birch Award or Fiction (Canada) • Booklist Editors’ Choice Award The Color Monster • 2017 John Spray Mystery Award rom the • 2011 Texas 2x2 Reading List (9781454917298) Canadian Children’s Book Centre • 2010 Book Links Lasting Connections Award • 2015 Nautilus Award Silver Winner or • 2017 Crystal Kite Award rom the Society o Children’s Picture Book - Fiction Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators • 2017/2018 Red Cedar Fiction Award rom the Ally-saurus & the First Day o€ School B.C.’s Young Reader’s Choice Awards (9781454911791) Day is Done • 2016 CLEL Bell Award (9781402748066) Insigni€icant Events in the Li€e o€ a Cactus • Starred or outstanding merit in Bank Street • 2009 ABC Best Books or Children (9781454923459) College o Education’s The Children’s Books o the Year, 2016 Edition Dinosaur Farm • Junior Library Guild Fall 2017 Selection • 2015 PAL Award (9781454911326) • 2015 Nautilus Award Grand/Gold Winner or • An Atlanta Parent Best Book o 2014 I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track Children’s Picture Book - Fiction (9781402721830) Grace Hopper: Queen o€ Computer Code • 2008 Ladybug Picture Book Award Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox (9781454920007) (New Hampshire) (9781402743368) • Gold Honor - Spring 2017 Parent’s • 2011 Children’s Oregon Spirit Book Award Choice Award The Kid’s Guide to Exploring Nature • Junior Library Guild Fall 2017 Selection (9781889538891) Bug Detective • 2014 AAAS/Subaru Prize or Hands-on (9781454915164) Goodnight Songs Science Book • 2016 Green Earth Book Award (9781454904465) or Children’s Noniction • Starred or outstanding merit in Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast Bank Street (9781454914044) The Case o€ the Graveyard Ghost • College o Education’s The Children’s Books • An Atlanta Parent Best Book o 2015 (9781402749650) o the Year, 2016 Edition • 2015 RhyPiBoMo Best in Rhyme Award • 2005 Rhode Island State Children’s • 2015 CLEL Bell Award • 2015 Nautilus Award Silver Winner or Book Award • New York Times Bestseller (3/30/14, 4/6/14) Children’s Picture Book - Fiction

Chicken Dance Grumpy Cat Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The Disappoint- (9781402753664) (9781907967481) ing Pancake and Other Zany Songs • 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award • 2009 Texas 2x2 Reading List (9781402769153) • 2011 Donna Norvell Oklahoma Book Award • Parents’ Choice Gold Award in the CD with Book category • 2010 Book Choice or Read Across Oklahoma How Gator Says Goodbye! • 2010 Chicago Public Library Best o (9781454908210) the Best Book • 2015 CLEL Bell Award The Little Mermaid and Other Fishy Tales • 2010-2011 Wyoming Buckaroo Book Award (9781907967818) • 2010 Oklahoma Book Award How Hippo Says Hello! • Chosen or the 2014 New York Public Li- brary’s 100 Books or Reading & Sharing List • 2009 ABC Best Books or Children (9781454908203) • 2009 Book Choice or Oklahoma Celebration • 2015 CLEL Bell Award o Reading Love You More than Anything (9781454900214) • 2009 Golden Fuse Award – How Penguin Says Please! • 2015 CLEL Bell Award Best Marketed Book (9781454914969) • 2009 National Parenting Publications • An Atlanta Parent Best Book o 2015 Gold Award I Love You Near and Far (9781454905073) Howard Wallace, P.I. Children’s Treasury o€ Nursery Rhymes • An Atlanta Parent Best Book o 2014 (9781454919490) (9781402729805) Winner • 2008 Gold Ink Awards • Silver Honor - Spring 2017 Parents

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105105 UNITED STATES RESIDENCES

State City Name Position Title CA Los Angeles Trip Payne Author Crossword Puzzles or Bright Kids Crossword Puzzles or Vacation CA Los Angeles Anne Bollman Author Help Find Frank CA Los Angeles Julie F. Frank Author Crushing the Common App Essay CA Quincy Dora M. Mitchell Author Haunted Serpent CA San Diego Dee Leone Author Nature's Lullaby Fills the Night CA San Diego Andrea Zuill Author Marigold & Daisy CO Denver Leah Gilbert Author A Couch or Llama CT Westport Christopher Hart Author Drawing Cartoons rom Numbers IL Evanston Carolyn Crimi Author I Am the Boss o this Chair IL Naperville Kristina Springer Author Cici Reno IN Schererville Kathleen Doherty Author Don't Feed the Bear LA New Orleans Whitney Stewart Author What's on Your Plate? MA Concord Josh Funk Author Albie Newton ME Gorham Bill Wise Author Over at the Construction Site NC Durham Andrew Gatt Designed by Roller Coaster Marble Run NC Wilmington Fracaswell Hyman Author Mango Delight NJ Cranord Laura Sassi Author Diva Delores and the Opera House Mouse NJ Hoboken Frank Longo Author Sudoku Puzzles or Bright Kids Sudoku Puzzles or Vacation NY Brooklyn Artie Bennett Author Universe's Greatest Dinosaur Jokes and Pre-Historic Puns NY Brooklyn Ben Richmond Author Baby Panda Chews Bamboo NY New York Shira Boss Author Up in the Leaves NY New York Mark Danna Author Word Search Puzzles or Vacation NY New York Huy V Lee Author Exotic Fruit NY New York Aura Lewis Author Gloria's Voice OH Columbus Allison Black Illustrator Sea Zoo OH Cleveland Anne Passchier Illustrator Sunny Summer's Day OK Edmond Tammi Sauer Author But the Bear Came Back TX San Antonio Je© Anderson Author Just My Luck (Zack Delacruz, Book 2) USVI St. Thomas Phillis Gershator Author Time or a Trip VA Ashburn Lezlie Evans Author Daddies Do VA Richmond Sarah G Marsh Author A Campire Tail Selie Sebastian VA Smithield Kim Norman Author Puddle Pug

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR RESIDENCES

106106 3D Jungle Animal Masks, 83 D I 10 Blue Butterlies, 15 Daddies Do, 25 I Am the Boss o this Chair, 5 A Dark Forest: Book 2, The, 41 In the Wild, 35 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Giants, 55 Albie Newton, 10 J Diva Delores and the Opera House Mouse, 19 Alice in Wonderland, 48 Don’t Feed the Bear, 21 Jurassic World Special Edition, 57 Amazing Animal Homes, 59 Dot-to-Dot Puzzles or Vacation, 91 Just My Luck (Zack Delacruz, Book 2), 43 American Maverick, 63 Drawing Cartoons rom Numbers, 76 Animal Facts & Jokes, 73 L Dress Like Mommy, 14 Animal Families, 27 Lie-Sized Animal Tracks, 53 Animal Puzzles, 66 E Li²-the-Flap Colors, 32 Animals, 67 Exotic Fruit, 33 Li²-the-Flap Shapes, 32 Astronauts, 28 Little Prince, The, 48 F B M Fantastical Beasts, 84 Baby Panda Chews Bamboo, 54 Farm, 38 M.A.S.H.: School's Out!, 80 Backyard, 67 Farm (Montessori), 67 Mango Delight, 44 Ballet School Sticker Book, 78 Fashion Drawing, 79 Marigold & Daisy, 13 Big Scream!, The, 72 Flash Kids Floor Display, 102 Math Adventures Grade 2, 65 Boat is Blue, The, 34 Math Adventures Grade 3, 65 Body Facts & Jokes, 73 G Math Adventures Grade 4, 65 Book o Me, The, 80 Gareth Bale, 95 Math Adventures Grade 5, 65 Brilliant Bugs, 28 Ghost Stories, 51 Micro Monsters, 56 Bronto’s Search or Dad, 37 Giant Mazes, 93 Minecra² Master Builder Toolkit, 87 Bugs, 57 Gloria’s Voice, 3 Most Beautiul Fables o Aesop, Phaedrus Build It: Airplane, 75 Going to School, 82 and La Fontaine, The, 50 Build It: Dinosaur, 75 Going to Town, 82 My Baptism Album, 99 Build It: Dragon, 75 Greatest Fairy Tales, The, 50 My Body, 28 Bus Goes Toot, Toot, Toot!, The, 34 Greek Myths (Volume One), 46 My Circle Book, 36 But the Bear Came Back, 8 My Communion Album, 99 H C My Rectangle Book, 36 Handmaid’s Tale, The (SparkNotes), 70 My Square Book, 36 Campire Tail, A, 24 Hangman Puzzles or Bright Kids, 92 My Triangle Book, 36 Cat’s Meow, The, 34 Hangman Puzzles or Vacation, 91 Cici Reno, 42 N Happy Happier Happiest, 27 Coding or Kids 2, 61 Haunted Serpent, The, 40 Nature’s Lullaby Fills the Night, 16 Color Puzzles, 66 Help Find Frank, 23 Couch or Llama, A, 4 O Hidden in Nature, 93 Creativity on the Go: Dragons, 85 History Facts & Jokes, 73 OÄcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Activity Creativity on the Go: Pirates, 85 How Tall Was a T.rex?, 58 and Colouring Book, The, 97 Crossword Puzzles or Bright Kids, 92 How Things Are Made: Volume 2, 72 OÄcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Crossword Puzzles or Vacation, 91 How to Learn Chinese, 68 Fact File, The, 96 Crushing the Common App Essay, 69 How to Think Like a Coder, 61 OÄcial 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Kids’ Handbook, The, 97

INDEX

107107 Oliver Twist (Classic Graphic Fiction), 47 U On the Farm, 35 Undersea Kingdom, 84 Over at the Construction Site, 22 Universe’s Greatest Dinosaur Jokes P and Pre-Hysteric Puns, The, 89 Up in the Leaves, 7 Park, 38 Picture Maze Puzzles or Bright Kids, 92 V Picture Maze Puzzles or Vacation, 91 Viking Myths (Volume One), 46 Pirate Stories, 51 Pirates: Dead Men’s Tales, 51 W Planet Earth, 60 Walk Through the Woods, A, 20 Puddle Pug, 30 What’s on Your Plate?, 6 Puzzle Masters Dot to Dot, 93 Wild Animals, 28 R Word Search Puzzles or Vacation, 91 Wrinkle in Time, A (SparkNotes), 70 Rainbow Origami, 79 Rainorest Sticker Book, 78 Z Robot is Square, The, 34 Zoo, 38 Roller Coaster Marble Run, 86

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Saari Animals, 55 Science Facts & Jokes, 73 Sea, 38 Selie Sebastian, 17 Shape Shenanigans, 81 Sight Words Puzzles and Games, 68 Silver Penny 40-Copy Counter Display, 103 Sit & Solve®Spinner Rack, 103 Soccer Record Breakers, 95 Spots, Splashes, and Fingerprints Fun, 81 Sterling Fun & Games Floor Spinner, 102 Story o Titanic or Children, The, 63 Sudoku Puzzles or Bright Kids, 92 Sudoku Puzzles or Vacation, 91 Sunny Summer’s Day, A, 31

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Tale o Two Cities, A (Classic Graphic FIction), 47 Terri’s First Flight, 37 Time or a Trip, 18, 30 Toothbrush or Rex, A, 37 Trixie Faces Her Fear, 37

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