Publishers Weekly

1 day ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s timely adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents is a powerful graphic recreation of the science fiction visionary’s prescient dystopian masterwork. The book is a sequel to Butler’s Parable of the Sower, set during a time of violence and chaos across a war-ravaged United States under the rule of a fascist Christian nationalist president of the United States.

1 day ago | publishersweekly.com | Emma Kantor

Czech-based independent children’s publisher Albatros has announced plans to expand its operations in the United States. Albatros was established in 1949 and was among the seven co-founders of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 1964. Since 2021, the company has been publishing titles in the U.S., where it is distributed by Consortium.

1 day ago | publishersweekly.com | Amanda Ramirez

XO, Kitty screenwriter Alanna Bennett draws on her experience as an entertainment journalist in her pop culture–infused debut YA novel, The Education of Kia Greer. As one of four daughters born to a Black actor and his white manager wife, 17-year-old Kia is no stranger to the spotlight. For 11 seasons, Kia’s older sisters have ruled the set of their family’s reality TV show Growin’ Up Greer with their on-camera tantrums and messy breakups.

2 days ago | publishersweekly.com

Readers can welcome a new season and exciting new titles out this month, including a picture book about an anticipated arrival, a middle grade novel grappling with grief, a YA book tracing a bisexual teen’s road trip, and more.

3 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Shannon Maughan

How did 11 large, urban K–12 districts manage to add librarians and increase library services for their students when the U.S. is experiencing a decades-long decline in school librarian staffing? The School District of Philadelphia and the volunteer advocacy organization Philadelphia Alliance to Restore School Librarians teamed up to find out—and to create a replicable model that they and other districts could use to achieve similar success.