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BAKER & TAYLOR ONLINE RESOURCES
Happy New Year, Librarians! Here’s to a year filled with great reads,
high circs, and perhaps fewer surprises. We’re ready to start off
News
the new year with some big news! We have the starting lineup for our
patron-facing 2022 Summer Reading Author Program, and it includes
Annie Barrows, Robbi Behr, Troy Cummings, J. Dillard, Andrew McDonald, Matthew Swanson,
R.L. Stine, Lauren Wolk, and Ben Wood! Be sure to check out our tie-in Summer Reading Prize
Incentives selection lists on TS360, and contact us for special pricing.
We look forward to viewing the 2022 ALA Youth Media
Awards broadcast “with” you during LibLearnX: The Library
Learning Experience on Monday, January 24th at 8AM CST
(link here). If you haven’t registered yet, sign up to attend
LibLearnX here. Watch for our awards email with links to
selection lists of all winners and honors later that day.
Be sure to check out this month’s Collection Development Resources segment for links to our
most recent TitleTalks and updated Best Book Bibliographies section in TS360, too.
BOOK RESOURCES AND EXTRAS
We’re abuzz about the debut young adult fantasy The Lost Dreamer (ISBN
9781250754851 HRD, 9781250754868 EBK), written by Lizz Huerta and inspired
by ancient Mesoamerica. You’ll meet a line of seers who are set on destroying the
patriarchal state they live in. Watch the trailer, and preorder this March release.
Next up, get ready for 2022’s Hats Off to Reading campaign
with this activity guide, and check out the new Dr. Seuss
Discovers board book series, with new titles including The
Farm (ISBN 9781984829900) arriving in March. In this rhyming nonfiction
board book series, the Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two show
kids where our food comes. Other titles in the series include The Ocean,
Dinosaurs, Bugs and more. Sign up to make them Automatically Yours
with series ID 0003768934.
January 2022
You won’t want to miss the follow-up to There’s a Bear in My Chair,
available now. There’s a Mouse in My House (ISBN 9781536220223) finds
Bear in a predicament with an unwelcome guest mouse, plus another visitor
who may or may not turn the tables on this situation. Download activities,
and get your copies to find out what happens next.
Peggy Porter Tieney and Marie Letourneau bring
us a moving and useful guide featuring kids teaching kids how to
make the world a better place in How to Change the World in 12
Easy Steps (ISBN 9781939100542), based on the life lessons of Eva
Kor, Auschwitz child survivor. Charming illustrations bring lightness
to a book with serious ideas that work. Click for activities to get
young minds motivated to make their own changes in the world.
Book 3 in one of our favorite cat-themed graphic novel series is coming in April.
Cat Ninja: Wanted (ISBN 9781524875343 HRD, 9781524875107 PAP) compiles six
stand-alone stories, plus a five-part Cat Ninja special miniseries, into one volume,
including a nearly cat-astrophic case of stolen identity, the not-so-villainous
adventures of Master Hamster, and Adonis's first mission as one of the good guys.
View the trailer for the second compilation to see what all the excitement is about!
Rounding out this month’s featured titles, Snow Angel, Sand
Angel (ISBN 9780593127377 HRD, 9780593127391 EBK) introduces Claire, a
native of Hawaii who has never seen snow, and REALLY wants to. When her
father takes her to the top of the Mauna Kea, she can't help but to be
disappointed that it’s not the winter wonderland she's always dreamed of, but
she learns to delight in the special joys of winter in her own way. Backmatter
provides information on local plants and animals. Download activities for a
fantastic storytime.
LIBRARY/INDUSTRY NEWS
In award news, YALSA has released the finalists for the 2022 Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults Award. Tune in to for the winner
announcement during the ALA Youth Media Awards on January 24th. The
Kids’ Book Choice Awards were also recently announced, and you can
access those winners via PW here. Congratulations to all of the finalists
and winners!
Now we’re thrilled to share a brief recap of children’s publishers that Baker & Taylor Publisher
Services will be distributing in 2022! Read more about these new clients in Shelf Awareness.
First up is Little Feminist, whose name you’ll recognize for winning
the 2021 Stonewall Award for We Are Little Feminists: Families.
New editions of their three board books are coming in March,
updated to include discussion guides. Preorder now: Hair (ISBN
9781734182446), On-the-Go (ISBN 9781734182453), and Families
(ISBN 9781734182460).
Feeding Minds Press is a project of the American Farm Bureau Foundation for
Agriculture aimed at making kids aware of how agriculture works, aiming to
teach them “where their food comes from and who grows it.” Their fifth title,
I Love Strawberries (ISBN 9781948898065) follows young Jolie’s first foray
into growing her own strawberries, showing just how fun and challenging it
can be. It arrives in April.
Next, Tapioca Stories offers readers of English translations of books
written by Latin American authors and illustrators, aiming to provide
children with diverse titles that highlight common bonds we all share.
Watch for their forthcoming titles: Aaahhh! (ISBN 9781734783926,
March), The Beach (ISBN 9781734783940, May), and Swimmers (ISBN
9781734783933, July).
And rounding out the list is Cardinal Rule Press, publishing “high-quality children’s
literature that empowers children through timeless messages of hope, courage
and the Golden Rule…which make a difference in the world while reflecting
modern-day diversity.” This spring they’ll release This Could Be You (ISBN
9781735345130), with Three Pockets Full (ISBN 9781735345154) coming in July.
In imprint news, two new imprints hit our radar this month as well.
From Lumberjanes author Mariko Tamaki comes Surely Books, a
new from Abrams ComicArts that will focus on LGBTQ+ graphic
novels, many of which will be listed as teen titles. Their first title,
Lifetime Passes (ISBN 9781419746673 PAP, 9781683359708 EBK)
arrived in late November, with more arriving in 2022 and 2023.
Read more about this exciting new imprint here.
And last, but not least, Mayo Clinic Press launched in October. The titles are
distributed by Simon & Schuster in print only, and though fiction, are based on
the life experiences of Mayo Clinic patients. The first two releases are 36 page
middle grade graphic novels, part of the My Life Beyond series. My Life
Beyond Autism (ISBN 9781893005778) arrives in March, with several more
titles in the series to follow. Read more here.
CONTEST NEWS
Penguin Young Readers’ Celebrate Black History Month
contest wrapped up last week, and the book collection
winners are:
• Early Readers collection went to Molly Lank-Jones at
the Sherman & Ruth Weiss Community Library in
Hayward, WI
• Middle Readers went to April Hoste at Colona Public
Library in Colona, IL
• Young Adult went to Megan Schincke at Bondurant
Community Library in Bondurant, IA
Stay tuned for future CATS contests for your chance to win!
CAT TALE OF THE MONTH
This month, Baker & Taylor recommend Garfield: The Cat Show (ISBN
9780593430644), a new Little Golden Book featuring everyone’s favorite
orange tabby and his favorite kitten, Nermal. They said:
What fun to read a Garfield story in this new format, perfect for the littlest
audience and starring two cool cats, Garfield and Nermal. You are
guaranteed to laugh as Garfield prepares for the cat show and shows off
his skills, after consuming some lasagna, of course! Four paws up.
Contact CATS@baker-taylor.com with any collection development or programming
needs you may have. We look forward to partnering with you in 2022.
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