Picture Books & Easy Readers
Love is in the air everyone! Mother Holly says Pig the Pug, I Heart You, Yoga Bunny, What Color Is a Kiss? asks Lucky Lazlo. Goodnight Everyone That’s Me Loving You.
Better Call Batman! and let him know that Linus Gets Glasses while Pj Masks Save the Library! Meanwhile, I See Otto at My First Karate Class.
Nonfiction
Ladies are taking over December! Misty Copeland’s memoir Life in Motion gets adapted for young readers. Heather Lang delivers a picture book biography of Eugenie Clark, shark researcher. Soccer phenom Carli Lloyd tells her inspirational story. Cokie Roberts follows-up Founding Mothers with Ladies of Liberty.
Gaming guides are also popular this fall. There’s a Pokemon Go
Handbook, an introduction to the Overwatch game (rated T for teen), a guide to the “world's greatest mobile games”, and a history of a video games.
Fiction
Always our lightest publishing month, December will still bring a handful of titles of note: Scott Westerfeld is branching out into younger audiences with series starter Horizon that sounds an awful lot like Lost for the MG set. It’s also set to be multiplatform with an online gaming component. James Patterson is also doing something a little different, instead of MG series, he’s taking a more literary approach with collaborator Grabenstein in Word of Mouse which has already garnered 2 starred reviews. Lastly, Fridolfs gives us volume 2 of his graphic novel hybrid series DC Comics: Secret Hero Society.
For YA, top billing we have Ally Carter’s third volume in her Embassy Row series Take the Key and Lock Her Up. And then following up E. K. Johnston’s A Thousand Nights, she gives us another fairy tale retelling, this time it’s a new spin on Sleeping Beauty in Spindle.
Graphic Novels
December will see the publication of several juvenile and teen titles: in juvenile, the big title is the second volume in the Pilkey’s Dog Man series, Dog Man Unleashed along with the next Lumberjanes, Steven Universe, Disney Fairies, Squirrel Girl, Pokemon, Yo-Kai Watch, and new series The Bad Guys.
In teen, we have a new Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Assassination Classroom, Fairy Tail, Attack on Titan: Junior High, Star Wars: Darth Vader, Doctor Strange, Fruits Basket Collector’s, Star Wars: Poe Dameron, and Archie.
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