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NO ONE LEAVES THE CASTLEWhen Baron Vargus Angbar’s ancestral treasure goes missing, butler Gribbinsnood Flornt must hire a bounty hunter to capture the famous wizard...
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THE BIGGEST MISTAKEIn this idealized version of life on the savanna, a young lion cub is told by his father that it’s time to catch his first gazelle. After...
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FIX AND STITCHSquirrel neglects to prepare for winter. But unlike Aesop’s lazy grasshopper, he is motivated by benevolence or perhaps by the need to be...
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NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOWAs a child, Chicago native Pagonis never felt at ease with the name their parents had given them—Jennifer—or with the trappings of girlhood. The...
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THE PROBLEM OF TWELVEThe “problem of 12” is a term of art that describes the capture of some aspect of commerce, governance, or the like by a small number of the...
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THE WOLF HUNTIsraeli-born Lilach and Mikhael Shuster “raised an American child who went to high school with American children, and now they say he killed...
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TRUSTY TOWN HALLWard opens this people-centric overview with a gallery featuring dozens of small figures occupying positions from mayor and mayor’s assistant to...
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DRAW THIS!This playful book bursts with color from the start. Fuzzy little monsters and abstract doodles encourage kids to draw whatever they want—right...
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THE TRUTH ABOUT DRAGONSDonning a cloak and sturdy boots, the protagonist enters a lush autumn forest, venturing past “mischievous hobgoblins” and “glowing...
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THE WILD JOURNEY OF JUNIPER BERRYEleven-year-old Juniper is perfectly happy in the woods, where she learns from mom Clara and dad Zephyr in “earth school” alongside older sister...
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TOGETHER WE SWIMReaders may recognize two of the family members from Bolling and Juanita’s Together We Ride (2022), which centered on a father teaching his...
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TIGER DAUGHTERThirteen-year-old Wen Zhou feels stuck in an insular world, kept in motion by equal parts rage and fear. Having been a medical doctor in China,...
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A PLACE CALLED AMERICAOpening with a carefully shaded, watercolor-and–colored pencil depiction of a green-and-blue Earth, Thermes, a map illustrator, describes how...
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THINGS GET UGLY“Of all my writing, the short story is my favorite form of expression,” says Lansdale, and his joy shows in the exuberant invention of these...
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BEYOND PRIMATESIn more than a dozen essays, the author, a science journalist, explores the sometimes quirky terrain of contemporary evolutionary theory (maybe...
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SNOWFLAKES ON OUR TONGUESThe animals of Pumpernickel Farm (and perhaps their tan-skinned, brown-bearded farmer?) have a peculiar habit whenever flakes start to fall. “We...
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IF THE RIVERS RUN FREEPaired with Debbink’s earnest verse (“They captured the currents, / and green turned to gray / as the rivers’ bright habitats faded away”),...
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RACEE ACEE AND THE TOBOGGAN RACEAcee, Mia, Riley, and Tobias are ready for the annual toboggan race, but they want to give their sled a speedy edge. After brainstorming ideas,...
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NOWHERE AT HOME“October leaves / pile up like scattered drafts of some design” the author writes in “Raking” as fall sets in, “aching on this byway to...
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BATTLEFIELD CYBER“Make no mistake, America’s adversaries are fully engaged in a cyber war,” write the authors, “and it is raging all around us.” This initially...
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IN THE LAIR OF LEGENDSIn 1872, a unit of U.S. troops heads to Oregon by train carrying gold meant for the U.S. Army. A Nez Perce man named Jolon Winterhawk is a...
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BREAKAGEDonnie “The Book” Chariot is a genius with numbers. His affinity for calculating probability has made him a legendary bookie covering the action...
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A SMILE IN A WHISPERThirty-one-year-old Evie Sutherland, who suffers from Crohn’s disease, lives a quiet life in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. She runs her...
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UNDER THE OAK WITH AGNESAn urgent call from Spencer House hospice doesn’t just summon Emory Harrell home to small-town Rushton, North Carolina—it upends his life...
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BUT YOU HAVE FRIENDSIn 2018, after her friend Charlotte died at 34 following a long struggle with depression, McKenzie began making sketches of her memories of...
