Barb Rosenstock

Jul 25, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Lynn Brunelle |Barb Rosenstock

Jason Chin received the 2022 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations for Andrea Wang’s autobiographical picture book Watercress. As an author-illustrator, his acclaimed nonfiction books include Grand Canyon, Your Place in the Universe, and The Universe in You. In Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle, Chin depicts the decomposition of a blue whale over the course of a century, giving life to new ecosystems.

May 30, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Marc Majewski |Kim Hyo-eun |Katherine Rundell |Barb Rosenstock

Matthew Burgess, illus. by Marc Majewski. Knopf, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9380-2In a world bound by rules and conventions, what’s it like to be someone “content to do his own thing, in his own way, in his own time”? Burgess (Sylvester’s Letter) and Majewski (The Art of Rewilding) provide an answer in this splendid biography of creator Edward Gorey (1925–2000).

May 30, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Barb Rosenstock |Richard Men Ho |Kirsten W. Larson |Kim Hyo-eun

Barb Rosenstock, illus. by Katherine Roy. Norton, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-324-01607-6Five major currents in the Atlantic Ocean “swirl billions of gallons of water clockwise around and around,” creating an immense body of water, called the Sargasso Sea after the floating sargassum forests within it.

May 30, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Diana Urban |Kim Hyo-eun |Katherine Rundell |Barb Rosenstock

In an exhilarating thriller reminiscent of The Descent, Urban (Lying in the Deep) follows four teens who find themselves fighting for their lives in the catacombs of Paris while on a class trip abroad. When Ruby arrives in the city, her best friend Val quickly befriends a mysterious French boy who invites Val to a party deep within the catacombs.

May 23, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sally Nicholls |Kim Hyo-eun |Katherine Rundell |Barb Rosenstock

Sally Nicholls, illus. by Júlia Sardà. Viking, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-69210-3Nicholls (The Button Book) pens a prickly, haunting story about a poor fisherman searching for an honest man to serve as godfather of his newborn son. Who should the fisherman meet first but Father God? An ideal godfather, surely! But when Father God says he treats “all men and all women fairly,” the fisherman balks.