Picture Books

🦋April 2024
📚New Fun & Affirming Kidlit Picture Books: Featuring uplifting stories of self, family, heritage, culture & community!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖All I Need to Be (Rachel Ricketts & Tiffany Rose)
📖Marley’s Pride (Joëlle Retener & DeAnn Wiley)
📖From My Head to My Toes (Aly Raisman & Bea Jackson)
📖I Am More Than (LeBron James & Niña Mata)
📖More Than You Imagine (Thelia Hutchinson & Ariana Predoi)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖Tasha’s Voice (Carmen Bogan, Floyd Cooper & Daria Peoples)
📖¡Fiesta!: A Festival of Colors (Duncan Tonatiuh)
📖Lola Meets the Bees (Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw)
📖Are You Listening? (Susan Verde & Juliana Perdomo)

📌Tuesday April 16:
📖The Heart Never Forgets (Ana Ot & Hayden Goodman)
📖Churro Stand (Karina N. González & Krystal Quiles)
📖Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude of Neurodiversity (Samara Cole Doyon & Kaylani Juanita)
📖Life’s Little Lessons*: Bye-Bye Blanket (Bernette Ford & Sam Williams)
*Five additional titles in this Board Book series also releasing on this date:
•Bye-Bye Bottle
•Bye-Bye Pacifier
•Bye-Bye Diaper
•No More Biting
•No More Hitting

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖How We Play (Dolisha Mitchell)
📖Not My Cat (Stacey Patton & Acamy Schleikorn)
📖Cute Toot (Breanna J. McDaniel & Olivia de Castro)
📖I’m Not Small: Board Book Edition (Nina Crews)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖I Would Love You Still (Adrea Theodore & Ken Wilson-Max)
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Black History

🦋April 2024
📚New Black History & Nonfiction Kidlit Books: Biographies, True History, Historical Fiction, Reference, Anthologies, Social Justice & Activism!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison (Carole Boston Weatherford & Kalif Tahir Thompson)
📖The Juneteenth Cookbook: Recipes and Activities for Kids and Families to Celebrate (Alliah L. Agostini, Chef Taffy Elrod & Sawyer Cloud)
📖Our World: Columbia (Alexandra Alessandri & Manu Montoya)
📖Race to the Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story (Catherine Johnson)
📖The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner’s Guide with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (Maurice Ashley & Denis Angelov)
📖Little People, Big Dreams: Beyoncé (Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara & Jade Orlando)

📌Thursday April 4:                                           📖Dancing Through Space: How Dr. Mae Jemison Soared to New Heights (Lydia Lukidis & Sawyer Cloud)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖Juneteenth Is (Natasha Triplett & Daniel J. O’Brien)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Our God Is Marching On (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
📖I Heard: An American Journey (Jaha Nailah Avery & Steffi Walthall)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (Carole Boston Weatherford & Eric Velasquez)
📖Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys (Roberto Peñas & Carl Angel)
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Chapter Books for Kids

🦋April 2024
📚New Kidlit Chapter Books & Graphic Novels!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖Ultraviolet (Aida Salazar)
📖Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World (Justin A. Reynolds)
📖Rockin’ Robots!: Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files (Andrea Beaty & Theanne Griffith)

📌Friday April 12:
📖Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows (Jarrett Pumphrey & Jerome Pumphrey)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Mid-Air (Alicia D. Williams & Danica Novgorodoff)
📖Kicked Out (A.M. Dassu)
📖A Little Bit Super: With Small Power Come Big Problems (Gary D. Schmidt & More)

📌Tuesday April 30:
📖Rica Baptista: A Week of Shenanigans (Janet Costa Bates & Gladys Jose)
📖Reina Ramos: Tour Guide (Emma Otheguy & Andrés Landazábal)
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Grown Folks Books

🦋April 2024
📚New Grown Folks Books!

📌Tuesday April 2:
📖All We Were Promised (Ashton Lattimore)

📌Tuesday April 9:
📖The House of Broken Bricks (Fiona Williams)

📌Tuesday April 16:
📖Woke Up No Light: Poems (Leila Mottley)

📌Tuesday April 23:
📖Out of Office (A.H. Cunningham)
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