Traci N. Todd

Nov 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Travis Jonker |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Narrator Hippo loves being first in line among all the anthropomorphized animal students at school—Jonker (Just One Flake) writes, “I can make everyone go fast, I can make everyone go slow. I can suddenly stop and make everyone crash.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Caroline Kusin Pritchard |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd

Caroline Kusin Pritchard, illus. by Selina Alko. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-1-4970Lyrical text with prayer-like refrains joins impressionistic collage and multimedia images as Kusin Pritchard (Where Is Poppy?) and Alko (Sharing Shalom) recount the 1966 fire at New York City’s Jewish Theological Seminary Library. Founded in 1893, the Upper West Side library served as “a keeper of stories. A keeper of memories.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Shawn Harris |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Shawn Harris. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5709-0In this sound-centric account of a riotous readaloud session from Caldecott Honoree Harris, a bearded caregiver in a blue top holds one side of a book while a child in a yellow shirt grasps the other. “Let’s be bees,” reads text on the first spread’s verso.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Veeda Bybee |Joy McCullough |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd

Veeda Bybee and Joy McCullough. Aladdin, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-66595-073-2; $7.99 paper ISBN 978-1-6659-5072-5Bybee (A Few of My Favorite Things) and McCullough (Basil & Dahlia) team up in this hilarious series launch. On top of preparing to start sixth grade at Kagan Middle School, Jojo Lopez is struggling to adjust to a new family dynamic after moving in with her mother’s well-known catfluencer boyfriend Paul, aka Mr. Meow.

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander |Quartez Harris

Alasdair Beckett-King, illus. by Claire Powell. Candlewick, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5362-4166-2; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-5362-4167-9By donning a raincoat, beret, and bristly fake mustache, and affecting a nebulous accent, 10-year-old Bonnie Montgomery assumes her alter ego: the gentleman detective Montgomery Bonbon. While touring Widdlington’s Hornville Museum with her grandfather, a security guard is murdered within a locked turret room.