Sally Lodge

6 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge |Peter Little

Familiar characters from three acclaimed middle grade novels will soon make return appearances, this time in the pages of picture books. Katherine Applegate revives her spunky aquatic mammal in Odder: An Otter’s Story, featuring art by Charles Santoso, due from Feiwel and Friends on April 29. Introduced in Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree, neurodiverse fourth grader Oliver stars in Wish in a Tree, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, which Nancy Paulsen Books will release on May 20.

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge

London author and journalist Anna James made her middle-grade fantasy debut with the six-book Pages & Co. series, which launched in 2019 in the U.S. with The Bookwanderers. James puts another spin on the concept of enchantment in Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment, first in a four-book series set on an island where everyone has magic inside them, rooted in one of the seasons, and a chosen few—known as Enchanters—are granted the ability to wield all four seasons of magic.

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge

In Little Rebels, author-illustrator Yuyi Morales draws on her Mexican heritage to inspire young readers to work together to be friends to the Earth and its beings. Due from Holiday House’s Neal Porter Books on September 2, Little Rebels joins this Caldecott Honoree and six-time Pura Belpré Medalist’s robust picture book canon, which includes Viva Frida, Dreamers, and Bright Star. A Spanish edition of Little Rebels, Peques rebeldes, will be released simultaneously.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge

For Alan Gratz, bestselling author of 20 novels for young readers, 2025 will be an especially busy year. On March 4, Scholastic Graphix published the first print edition of Resist: A Story of D-Day, a novella he wrote to tie into his 2019 novel Allies, previously available only in ebook and audio book formats.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge

There’s a new critter inhabiting the creative imaginations of Suzanne Lang and Max Lang. The author and illustrator of the bestselling Grumpy Monkey series will introduce another picture book protagonist on September 2, when Random House Studio publishes Archibald and the Furry Dinosaurs. The cover is revealed here for the first time. Grumpy Monkey, aka the entertainingly moody Jim Panzee, found an appreciative audience after his 2018 debut.