Monday, August 24, 2015

The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2015 via Publishers Weekly

Happy Marvelous Middle Grade Monday! School started today, which means fall is right around the corner. If you're looking for some Fall 2015 releases to add to your must read list, check out this list of The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2015 from Publishers Weekly. Below I've shared their list of Children's and Middle Grade books. You can check out their entire list here

Children's Books



The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illus. by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel, Aug.) - Daywalt and Jeffers’s The Day the Crayons Quit has been a stalwart on bestseller lists since it was published in 2013. This very funny follow-up sees the crayons writing postcards to their young owner after being left out of town on vacation, lost within the sofa, or otherwise abused.

The Full Moon at the Napping House by Audrey Wood and Don Wood (HMH, Sept.) - More than 30 years after the publication of bedtime favorite The Napping House, this husband-and-wife team takes readers back to a dwelling, where a certain granny, boy, dog, and cat are having trouble falling asleep under the light of an enormous moon.

Happy! by Pharrell Williams (Putnam, Oct.) - “Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.” Hmm, could a picture book adaptation of Williams’s chart-topping pop song essentially turn out to be a 21st-century version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It?” Readers can find out come October.

Lenny & Lucy by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook/Porter, Oct.) - The Steads made a name for themselves with the Caldecott Medal–winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee and have been accumulating accolades ever since. Their latest tells of a boy who creates a pair of protector-companions as he adjusts to his new home.

Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett, illus. by Christian Robinson (Chronicle, Aug.) - Who says ghosts don’t have feelings? Not Barnett and Robinson, whose “ghost story” is alternately funny, sad, and sweet as a lonesome spirit named Leo tries to make a connection that doesn’t leave the other party fleeing in terror.

MIDDLE GRADE



Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (Feiwel and Friends, Sept.) - Applegate is back with her first middle-grade novel since The One and Only Ivan, which won the 2013 Newbery Medal. In this equally sensitive story, fifth-grader Jackson worries that the reappearance of his childhood imaginary friend portends the return of problems for his family, too.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney (Abrams/Amulet, Nov.) - With more than 150 million copies in print, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is something of a global juggernaut, and this 10th entry in the series will be published simultaneously in 90 countries on November 3.

Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead (Random/Lamb, Aug.) - Stead returns to the Manhattan environs of her Newbery Medal–winning When You Reach Me as she explores the entwined and sometimes precarious friendships among a group of seventh-graders, shifting smoothly and perceptively between multiple points of view.

The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion, Oct.) - Having delved into Greek and Egyptian mythology in his Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, and Kane Chronicles series, Riordan moves on to Norse legends in this first book in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series. Riordan’s fans should be ecstatic; trolls and frost giants, less so.

The Marvels by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, Sept.) - A shipwreck, the world of London theater, a home meticulously maintained as it would have existed in the 18th-century, and the magic of storytelling combine in Selznick’s latest, a full 500 pages of which consist solely of his intricately detailed pencil drawings.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the list. I've heard great things about THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME. Also CRENSHAW sounds like a great story and anything from Rebecca Stead is a winner.

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  2. I adored CRENSHAW! Haven't read the other MG titles yet, but am adding them all to my TBR list. My kids love THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, and they're so excited that a sequel book is coming out :)

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  3. Yay for awesome new books coming soon :D They all sounds amazing. <3 Most excited about Magnus Chase, hih :) Thank you for sharing about these Katie. <3

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