Picture Books & Easy Readers
It may only be a Wish to have a son but Dot’s parents bring Wolfie the Bunny Home and I’m left wondering if there will be Room for Bear.
Next, Charlie Plays Ball and Smick plays Fetch while It’s Only Stanley chooses to build The House That’s Your Home instead of joining in the games.
Fiction
For March, juvenile fiction has some solid selections, the most visible and hilarious being the seventh volume of Big Nate. We also have some new middle-grade from beloved authors Blue Balliet and Avi: sleuths Calder, Petra and Tommy have some new gumshoe accomplices in Balliet's sequel to the Calder Game, and Avi gives us a historical mystery set in paranoid 50's New York. And then Tor Siedler's first novel in 7 years, has already gotten some wonderful review attention.
In the YA arena, I want to call out two debuts that should be in your sights and backorders: Mosquitoland, a modern American odyssey, and We All Looked Up, a meditation on living in the present because tomorrow the world might get hit by a meteorite and end life as we know it. Also, for dragon-fantasy enthusiasts, we have two big sequels publishing for two debuts I adored last year: Prairie Fire and Shadow Scale. Lastly, there's a new Andrew Smith with a depressed bionic reincarnated cow, rejoice!
Nonfiction
Springtime natural history gets growing: nests are noisy, flowers are calling, eggs are cracked, chicks are hatched, and gardens are dug.
Get ready for National Poetry Month with poems about birds, sea bones, spotted animals, Bigfoot, math, and just about everything; seasonal poems from Shirley Hughes; works from new poets; and nursery rhymes.
Graphic Novels
March will see the publication of several juvenile and teen titles: in juvenile, will Finn and Jake save the Land of Ooo (again) in volume 6 of Adventure Time, Big Nate tries be a cool kid, Wrinkle in Time arrives in paperback along with volume 27 of Pokemon Adventures.
In teen, we have volume 69 of Naruto, volume 15 of Attack on Titan, volume four of Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, and volume one in a new fantasy series from France, Last Man.
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