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WRITTEN BY DOMINIQUE ROQUES; ILLUSTRATED BY ALEXIS DORMAL Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion
The willful (and adorable!) Anna Banana returns for another sweet adventure!
Anna Banana is at it again!
The lovable tyrant from Sleep Tight, Anna Banana! is up to no good, and so are all of her beloved stuffed animals. In this adorable sequel to the 2014 picture book, Anna Banana and her stuffed pals set out to make a chocolate cake...and end up making a big, big, big mess. JUNE First Second With all the charm and whimsy that won readers' hearts Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / in the first book of the series, Anna Banana and the General Chocolate Explosion will give Anna Banana's fans more of On Sale 6/16/2015 Ages 5 to 7, Grades K to 2 what they love...and win over new readers. Hardcover Picture Book , 28 pages 10.000 in W | 7.500 in H | 1.000 lb Wt Dominique Roques has two sons, one of whom likes Carton Quantity: 40 drawing picture books. Together they have published several ISBN: 9781626720206 books starring Anna Banana. Sleep Tight, Anna Banana! was $15.99 / $18.50 Can. the first to be translated into English.
Also available Alexis Dormal makes books with word balloons. He has collaborated with Dominique Roques on the Anna Banana series, the first of which was Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!
Praise For... Sleep Tight, Anna Banana! 9781626720190 Sleep Tight, Anna Banana! $15.99/$18.50 Can.
"A comicsinspired delight from France—the graphic novel publisher's first picture book—introduces an appealingly feisty girl to a U.S. audience. This tidy little package could inspire an uptick in bedtime exuberance. Happily, another outing with Anna and company is planned." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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WRITTEN BY JORGE AGUIRRE; ILLUSTRATED BY RAFAEL ROSADO Dragons Beware!
Watch out, dragons! Claudette the Giant Slayer is back, and she's ready for action, in this fastpaced and hilarious followup to the hit Giants Beware.
Scrappy Claudette sets out once again with her pal Marie and her little brother Gaston to right wrongs and fight evil. And this time, it's personal. Claudette is out to get the dragon who ate her father's legs...and his legendary sword. But as usual, nothing is as simple as it seems, and Claudette is going to need Marie and Gaston's help more than ever. MAY
First Second Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Funny, fast, highenergy storytelling in an inventive and General perilous fantasy landscape makes Dragons Beware! a On Sale 5/12/2015 fantastic followup to 2012's middlegrade hit Giants Ages 7 to 10, Grades 2 to 5 Beware! Trade Paperback , 160 pages 7.500 in W | 10.000 in H Carton Quantity: 30 Jorge Aguirre is a ColombianAmerican from Columbus, ISBN: 9781596438781 Ohio. He’s written for everything from the most popular $14.99 / $17.50 Can. children’s shows to documentaries about Romanian exorcisms. He lives on the East Coast. Also available Born in Puerto Rico and based in Ohio, Rafael Rosado is a veteran of the animation industry. He is currently a storyboard artist for Warner Brothers, Disney, and Cartoon Network.
Giants Beware! 9781596435827 $14.99/$16.99 Can.
Praise For...
Giants Beware!:
"Fast, fun, and joyous to look at!" —Jeff Smith, author of Bone
"A young heroine and her two sidekicks set off on adventure in Giants Beware!” —The New York Times
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BASTIEN VIVÈS, MICHAËL SANLAVILLE & BALAK The Royal Cup
The plot thickens in the second volume of this GameofThronesstyle epic fantasy adventure series!
Richard Aldana, the mysterious stranger who entered the Games in the first volume of Last Man, continues to defeat all of his competitors, despite his outlandish refusal to use any magic, and to rely solely on martial arts. With young Adrian fighting at his side, he's beginning to look like a likely contender for the Royal Cup.
JUNE But in a breathtaking twist, everything changes: this First Second world is not what you thought it was, and Richard Aldana Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / is certainly not who he claimed. General On Sale 6/23/2015 Ages 14 to 18, Grades 9 And Up With the same fastpaced, actionoriented storytelling Trade Paperback , 208 pages and gorgeous art as The Stranger, the second volume 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H | 1.000 lb Wt of the Last Man series changes all the rules, and will leave Carton Quantity: 40 ISBN: 9781626720473 readers eagerly awaiting book three! $9.99 / $11.50 Can. Bastien Vives studied illustration and animation at the Ecole des Gobelins. After moviemaking classes, he dived into Also available comics, and his first title came out in 2007.
Balak (aka Yves Bigerel) works as a storyboard artist, 2D animator and TV show director in France. He works with Marvel Comics on the new digital Infinite Comics brand, as a storyboard artist (Avengers VS Xmen with Mark Waid, The Stranger Guardians of the Galaxy with Brian M. Bendis, Wolverine: 9781626720466 $9.99/$11.50 Can. Japan's Most Wanted with Jason Aaron and Jason Latour).
Michael Sanlaville graduated from the Emile Cohl school, and later the Gobelins, after which he followed twin careers in animation (at the Xilam studio) and in comics with Casterman Publishers.
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PÉNÉLOPE BAGIEU Exquisite Corpse
From French superstar Pénélope Bagieu— the literary world's sleaziest mystery is about to be blown wide open!
Zoe isn't exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize worldfamous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. It's also why she doesn't know that Rocher is supposed to be dead.
Turns out, Rocher faked his death years ago to escape his critics, and has been making a killing releasing his new MAY work as "lost manuscripts," in cahoots with his editor/ex First Second wife Agathe. Neither of them would have invited a crass Comics & Graphic Novels party girl like Zoe into their literary conspiracy of two, On Sale 5/5/2015 but now that she's there anyway...well, as it turns out, Hardcover , 128 pages both Thomas and Agathe think Zoe is awfully cute. 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H | 1.000 lb Wt Carton Quantity: 24 Zoe doesn't know Balzac from Batman, but she's going to ISBN: 9781626720824 $19.99 / $22.99 Can. have to wise up fast... because she's sitting on the literary scandal of the century!
Pénélope Bagieu was born in Paris in 1982, to Corsican and Basque parents. She is a bestselling graphic novel author and her editorial illustrations have appeared all over the French media. She blogs, drums in a rock band, and watches lots of nature shows.
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WRITTEN BY JACK BAXTER AND JOSH FAUDEM; ILLUSTRATED BY KOREN SHADMI Mike's Place A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv
A nonfiction graphic novel about the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in 2003—from documentary film makers Jack Baxter and Josh Faudem.
Mike's Place was one of the few spots in Tel Aviv where Jews, Christians, and Muslims could hang out peaceably, surrounded by the expats who filled the bar every night. It was a cosmopolitan haven from the conflict, a local gem that many pointed to as a hopeful sign that peace could come to the Middle East after all. In the spring of 2003, filmmakers Jack Baxter and Josh Faudem had just JUNE begun making a documentary about the bar. First Second Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction On Sale 6/9/2015 And then the bar was destroyed in a suicide bombing that took three lives and wounded another fifty people— Hardcover , 240 pages an attack that changed Jack and Josh's lives forever. 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H | 1.000 lb Wt Carton Quantity: 24 ISBN: 9781596438576 With art from Israeli cartoonist Koren Shadmi, Mike's $22.99 / $26.99 Can. Place is a gripping nonfiction accounting of the lives of a handful of people who came together in hope, then had to find their way together through despair.
Jack Baxter is a filmmaker and freelance journalist from New York City. He and his wife Fran StraussBaxter co produced the awardwinning film "Blues by the Beach."
Joshua Faudem is an AmericanIsraeli documentary filmmaker who has made many notable documentaries and television shows in Israel and Europe and is the director of the awardwinning documentary "Blues by the Beach."
Koren Shadmi’s graphic novels have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and the US. His work was selected for the Best American Comics 2009 anthology edited by Charles Burns and his illustrations have won several awards at the Society of Illustrators.
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ART BY ASAF HANUKA AND TOMER HANUKA, WRITTEN BY BOAZ LAVIE The Divine
A rippedfromtheheadlines thriller with elements of magical realism from power house artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka.
Mark's out of the military these days, but you never really get away from war. So it feels inevitable when his old army buddy Jason comes calling, with a lucrative military contract for a mining job in an obscure South East Asian country called Quanlom.
What awaits him in Quanlom is weirdness of the highest order: a civil war led by tenyearold twins wielding JULY something that looks a lot like magic, leading an army of First Second warriors who look a lot like gods. What awaits him in Comics & Graphic Novels Quanlom is an actual honesttogod dragon. On Sale 7/14/2015
Trade Paperback , 160 pages From worldreknowned artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H | 1.000 lb Wt (twins, whose magic powers are strictly confined to pen Carton Quantity: 40 and paper) and Boaz Lavie, The Divine is a fastpaced, ISBN: 9781596436749 $19.99 / $22.99 Can. brutal, and breathlessly beautiful portrait of a world where ancient powers vie with modern warfare and nobody escapes unscathed.
Boaz Lavie is a writer, filmmaker, and game designer residing in Tel Aviv.
Asaf Hanuka is a comics artist. With his twin brother Tomer he created “Bipolar” comics (20002005) and his latest book, The Realist (2012), won a Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators.
Tomer Hanuka has won multiple gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. With his brother Asaf, he also contributed art to the Oscar nominated Waltz with Bashir.
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