Picture Books & Easy Readers
Hello, My Name is Octicorn, and There Is a Tribe of Kids in Our Great Big Backyard.
Have You Seen Elephant? Gator Dad wants My Dog Spot and Everyone to splash in Puddles!!! We need Elephant to Follow Me there!
The Berenstain Bears Take Off to Space while Paddington Sets Sail on an Ocean of Color. Meanwhile the Bugs at the Beach say Thank You. Go, Otto, Go! You can Track a Dragon through Rain and Snow and Wind and Sun.
Nonfiction
Now’s the perfect time to add Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections, to your teen collection. And if summer’s coming, you know that Shark Week and Super Soakers aren’t far behind! Young reader adaptations are available: Neal Bascomb’s The Winter Fortress is adapted for teens as Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb, Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking becomes Quiet Power and Michael J. Tougias’s A Storm Too Soon and Robert Weintraub’s No Better Friend are released for youth with the same main titles. Even the 5 Love Languages get a teen spin.
In the animal world, learn How to Feed a Zoo, watch out for Flying Frogs and Walking Fish, get advice from Curious George and remember Cecil’s Pride.
Fiction
Big sci-fi/fantasy series titles lead the way in May for Juvie Fic, starting with the Trials of Apollo series opener from Rick Riordan, followed by the new Descendants entry and the 2nd volume in Galactic Hot Dogs saga. We’re also highly anticipating two new school stories from Gary Paulsen and Sarah Weeks/Gita Varadarajan: Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat about 6 wacky misfits stuck in a school restroom and Save Me a Seat about two very different boys who unite against a common enemy. Last, but not least, Firoozeh Dumas (Funny in Farsi) enters children’s publishing with It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel about an Iranian-American girl growing up during the Iran hostage crisis.
Unsurprisingly, YA Fic is also led by big sci-fi/fantasy series titles: the finale to Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave trilogy the 5th and final volume in Cass’s Selection series, and the sequel to Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses are all coming in May. Also on the horizon is adult bestselling author Kimberly McCreight’s first foray into YA with conspiracy thriller The Outliers, and the beginning of a series. Then for something a little different, we have an anthology of 12 summer love stories from blockbuster YA authors, edited by Stephanie Perkins in Summer Days and Summer Nights. Lastly, I want to highlight a big debut by transgendered author Meredith Russo who gives us If I Was Your Girl about a girl who is afraid to reveal to her love interest that at her old school she was called Andrew. For another narrative about transgendered teen life from someone who’s lived it, please see Becky’s review of the new memoir Being Jazz.
Graphic Novels
May will see the publication of several juvenile and teen titles: in juvenile, there is volume 17 of Geronimo Stilton, a new Fionna & Cake Adventure Time, the second Hilo, and Hippopotamister.
In teen, we have volume 78 of One Piece , volume 54 of Fairy Tail, Spider-Gwen, and All-New Wolverine .
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