By Emily Jenkins, G. Brian Karas (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $16.99, 40 pages It’s wintertime, but Pauline and her little brother, John-John, decide to have a lemonade stand. Their parents list all the reasons why the idea will never work—no …
By Jan Brett Putnam Juvenile $17.99 32 pages Mossy has a lovely home at Lilypad Pond, and the pond’s cool, damp atmosphere leads moss to grow on Mossy’s carapace. Wildflowers soon take root as well, and eventually Mossy has a …
By Cristina Comencini, Marina Harss (translator) Other Press, $15.95, 256 pages Marina and her 2-year-old son, Marco, meet Manfred, a local mountaineer, when they rent his upstairs apartment in the Dolomites. Marina and her son are vacationing alone, though this is …
By Audrey Schulman Europa Editions, $16.00, 353 pages At the end of 1899, Jeremy, an engineer, arrives in British East Africa to oversee a major railroad-building project. He quickly finds that two lions are killing the men he’s bound to protect. …
By Alyson Hagy Graywolf Press, $24.00, 288 pages Alyson Hagy speaks softly. Or readers might imagine she does, as her latest novel, Boleto, is a hypnotic whisper, not unlike the way her main character, Will Testerman, speaks to his horse. Early …
By Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, $14.95, 208 pages Gladys Eysenach is beautiful. This is the fundamental truth of her life, the fact around which her actions and thoughts revolve. She is beautiful, with the ability to bring men to their knees; ensnaring …
By Editors at America’s Test Kitchen Cook’s Illustrated, $26.95, 352 pages The chefs at America’s Test Kitchen are known for their relentless, meticulous quest to create best-of-the-best recipes that aim to be the final word on, say, beef stroganoff or chicken …
By Holly Hobbie Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 32 pages One spring day, a little toad named Gem wiggles up through the mud, looks out at the newly green world, and begins a journey that will take her to a …
By Monica Brown with illustration by John Parra Tricycle, $16.99, 32 pages What do you do when your link to the world of books moves away? This is the question facing Ana, a young girl in Colombia. A beloved teacher once …
By Adam Goodheart Knopf, $28.95, 460 pages In his latest book, Goodheart delves deeper into any single year than perhaps any Civil War historian has before. But this book does more than simply cover the year’s events; Goodheart attempts to examine …
By Lane Smith Roaring Brook Press, $16.99, 32 pages ISBN 9781596436077 The child narrating the touching, whimsical story Grandpa Green knows a lot about his great-grandfather’s life. He knows about his great-grandfather’s childhood on a farm, a bout of chicken …
By Simon James Candlewick Press, $16.99, 40 pages ISBN 9780763657246 It’s nearly winter in baby bird George’s city home, and though George’s mother announces it’s time for George to learn to fly, George is happy and comfortable in his nest. …
By Eric Litwin with illustration by James Dean Harper, $16.99, 40 pages Pete the Cat is off on a new adventure: school. Always cool and casual, he makes his way to school while singing a song about his red school shoes, …
By Annika Dunklee and Matthew Forsythe (illustrator) Kids Can Press, $14.95, 24 pages Elizabeth loves everything about her name: the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way her mouth feels when she says it. She’s proud of its length (nine …
By Mary F. Rockcastle Graywolf Press, $15.00, 272 pages At first glance, Carl and Hallie Fens seem to have it all: a long marriage, two beautiful grown daughters, successful careers as an architect and poet, and an idyllic vacation home in gorgeous …
