Marc Favreau

Sep 19, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau |Christina Soontornvat |Isabel Roxas

“The Story of Kamala Harris: An Inspiring Biography for Young People” by Tonya Leslie and illustrated by Juanita Londoño comes out Sept. 24. Photo: Callisto KidsUntil mid-July, the 2024 presidential election looked to be a gloomy remake of 2020 but this time with a forgone conclusion. Then everything changed. Headline: Biden out. Harris in. The race is on. The recast Harris vs. Trump match-up has turned exciting, and so has a pile of recent books geared to this election season.

Sep 9, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Marc Favreau

1.) The right to vote was not enshrined in the Constitution as it was originally written; Congress left it to the states to decide who could vote, and when. At the nation’s birth, the majority of Americans of voting age could not legally vote. 2.) Over the years, different groups of Americans—poor people, African Americans, women, Native Americans—had to fight for the right to vote. Sometimes, people would win the right to vote only to lose it later on. This fight continues today.

Jul 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Ben Brashares |Christina Soontornvat |Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau

Twelve-year-olds from Millerton, N.J., communicate across time in this high-stakes series launch from siblings Ann (The Whole Thing Together) and Ben Brashares (The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection). In 2023, former best friends Henry, Frances, and Lukas are burying their deceased shared gerbil when they unearth a rusting radio. Henry moves it to his family’s tool shed, where it inexplicably powers up and starts transmitting on it’s own.

Jul 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sally Nicholls |Christina Soontornvat |Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau

Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Júlia Sardà. Candlewick, $17.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-536223-31-6While white-cued Marta Buchelli’s mother works as a maid in the Hotel Balzaar, Marta ponders the art in the hotel’s once grand lobby, yearns for her soldier father’s return, and stays out of sight and quiet as a mouse. Despite her efforts, she is noticed by a countess accompanied by green-feathered parrot Blitzkoff (“once a man who was a very great general”).

Jul 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Annie Barrows |Christina Soontornvat |Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau

The creators of Ivy & Bean return in this delightful series kickoff for early readers that follows sisters Stella and Marigold. In a beginning flashback, three-year-old Stella’s parents drop her off at her grandmother’s house, where she awaits their return from the hospital with her baby sister in tow. Upon the siblings’ first meeting, Stella promises to tell newborn Marigold “all the secret things I know,” a vow that sets the tone for the sisters’ budding relationship.