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An exciting, new adventure with the irrepressible Princess Pistachio “What’s his name?” asks the director. “Dog,” says Pistachio. “Dog Shoelace.” “That won’t do. He needs a stage name. A name for a star!” She is right, thinks Pistachio. Dog is going to have an ex- citing new life, so he needs an exciting new name. That evening, Pistachio looks up words in the dic- tionary. She tries them out on Dog. “Frederic the Fantastic?” says Pistachio. Dog rolls his Publication Date: eyes. September 4, 2017 “Astounding Antonio?” says Pistachio. Dog sighs. Ship Date: “Stupendous Stirling?” says Pistachio. Dog puts his head August 7, 2017 on his paws and closes his eyes.It is Pistachio’s turn to sigh. Then she thinks of her grandfather. His name is Maurice. “Maurice?” she whispers. “Maurice the Magnificent?” Dog smiles in his sleep. —Excerpt from Princess Pistachio and Maurice the Magnificent, Chapter 3 Previous Princess Pistachio stories: “A playful and entertaining take “Young readers will cheer for her. on children’s perennial questions Long live Princess Pistachio.” surrounding ideas of personhood, —Kirkus Starred Review family and community.” —Kirkus Starred Review Princess Pistachio Princess Pistachio and the Pest Marie-Louise Gay Marie-Louise Gay Translated by Jacob Homel Translated by Jacob Homel Early Chapter Book Ages 5–8 Early Chapter Book Ages 5–8 ISBN: 978-1-927485-69-9 ISBN: 978-1-927485-73-6 List Price: $10.95 HC List Price: $10.95 HC 1 rincess istachio andP Maurice theP Magnificent Award-winning Author and Illustrator Marie-Louise Gay “Long live Princess Pistachio.”—Kirkus Starred Review for Princess Pistachio and the Pest Pistachio is worried about her dog. All he does is sleep disaster strikes: Maurice is dog-napped! Pistachio is dis- …and eat…and sleep. What a boring life! An audi- traught, and Madeline will not even lift a finger to help. tion call for a theater production seems like the per- Can Pistachio save both her dog and her friendship? fect answer. When Dog is chosen for the role, his life is abruptly transformed with a new job and a new An exuberant new installment for the popular Princess name: Maurice the Magnificent, star of Sleeping Beauty! Pistachio from beloved author-illustrator Marie-Louise Gay. Unfortunately, Maurice is not the only one being swept up in the excitement. Pistachio can talk about nothing else, until her best friend Madeline is completely fed up. Then Marie-Louise Gay has come a long way since she failed art class in the third grade. The au- thor and/or illustrator of over sixty books for children, she has captured the imaginations of children and their parents with her whimsi- cal cartoons and beloved characters. In 2013 Marie-Louise was awarded the Claude Aubry Award for distinguished service within the Early Reader Ages 5–8 field of children’s literature. ISBN: 978-1-77278-021-5 Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches / Pages: 52 / Carton Quantity: 72 List Price: $10.95 Hardcover with laminated case Publication Date: September 4, 2017 Ship Date: August 7, 2017 JUV045000 JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Chapter Books JUV019000 JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories JUV039060 JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship 2 www.pajamapress.ca 3 Two Times A Junior a Library Traitor Guild Award-winning Author Selection Karen Bass A fast-paced middle-grade offering from internationally acclaimed author Karen Bass Angry over his family’s recent move to Boston and current the French at the fortification of Louisbourg. But once in enforced holiday in Halifax, twelve-year-old Laz Berenger Louisbourg, Laz earns a job as runner to the kind Com- rebels against a guided tour of the Citadel and sets out mander Morpain and learns to love both the man and the to explore on his own. In one dark tunnel, his St. Christo- town. How will Laz find a way to betray the inhabitants pher’s medal burns suddenly hot. There’s a strange smell, of Louisbourg? How else can he hope to earn back his St. and Laz blacks out. When he wakes up, everything hap- Christopher’s medal, which is surely his key to returning pens at once. A sword is put to his throat. Men who look to his own time? like extras from Pirates of the Caribbean hand him over to a ship’s captain who strips him and takes his medal. The award-winning author of The Hill and Graffiti Knight He is declared a French spy. Laz realizes, to his horror, has written an enthralling, swash-buckling time-slip ad- that it is 1745 and he is trapped in time. These English venture for middle-grade readers centered on a fascinat- colonists, still loyal to King George, are at war with the ing period in North American history. Juvenile Fiction Ages 9–12 French. To earn his freedom, Laz must promise to spy on 978-1-77278-031-4 (HC) / 978-1-77278-024-6 (PB) Trim Size: 5.5 x 8 inches / Pages: 288 / Carton Quantity: 32 HC / 44 PB List Price: $15.95 Hardcover with dust jacket / $10.95 Paperback with French flaps Publication Date: August 21, 2017 Ship Date: July 24, 2017 By the same author... Karen Bass is the multi-award-winning author of a JUV001000 JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General number of novels for young adult readers. Graffiti JUV016080 JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars Knight won the CLA Young Adult Book Award, the JUV064000 JUVENILE FICTION / Time Travel Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the R. Ross Annett Award, and the CAA Exporting Alberta Award, among other honors. Uncertain Soldier won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was a finalist Photograph by Ellen Birkhahn by Photograph for the OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award. Her most recent novel, The Hill, is a White Ravens “The pace is relentless, the amply creepy threat is believable, and the setting is fully realized. There is enough Native American culture to add welcome flavor and depth… Selection and a Junior Library Guild Selection, and Suspenseful, fast-paced, and hard to put down.”—Kirkus Reviews is nominated for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award. Karen lives in Hythe, Alberta, where she was The Hill the public library manager for sixteen years before 2016 White Ravens selection Young Adult Fiction Ages 12+ turning to full-time writing. 2016 Junior Library Guild selection ISBN: 978-1-77278-002-4 2016 Best Books for Kids & Teens selection List Price: $11.95 Paperback 2017 Forest of Reading Red Maple Award nominee 2017 OLA Best Bets honourable mention 44 www.pajamapress.ca 5 Not Award-Winning Author and Illustrator Rebecca Bender A mischievous riff on friendship stories with Giraffe and Bird, who are not even trying to get along Giraffe and Bird are not friends. Not even a little bit. With bold acrylic illustrations, expressive word play, and The bird pesters the giraffe with his face-making, feather- laugh-out-loud storytelling, award-winning author-illus- pruning, and disgusting eating habits. The giraffe annoys trator Rebecca Bender delivers an odd-couple tale that the bird with his bad breath, ear-swatting, and lack of is anything but your average friendship story. Satisfyingly respect for personal space. Of course they are always un-sweet and uproariously irreverent, Not Friends invites fighting. Of course they would be better off without thoughtful discussion about children’s relationships with each other. Except, it turns out, maybe they wouldn’t be. each other—though first you’ll have to wait for the gig- gling to stop. Graduating from the Ontario College of Art Picture Book for Children Ages 3–5 and Design with the medal for illustration, Re- becca Bender made a big splash with her first ISBN: 978-1-77278-026-0 picture book, Giraffe and Bird. It won the OLA Trim Size: 8.75 x 10.6875 inches / Pages: 32 / Carton Quantity: 38 Blue Spruce Award in 2012, the following year its Printed Ends / Reinforced Trade Binding sequel, Don’t Laugh at Giraffe, was an OLA Blue List Price: $17.95 Hardcover with dust jacket Spruce honour book. Peach Girl, a picture book Publication Date: August 21, 2017 written by Raymond Nakamura, is a Cooperative Ship Date: July 24, 2017 Children’s Book Center best-of-the-year Choice and a Toronto Public Library “First and Best” list JUV039060 JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship By the same creator... selection. An art director and designer as well as an author/illustrator, Rebecca lives in Burlington, JUV002320 JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Giraffes Ontario, with her husband and two children.