Hitting bookshelves next week are a picture book about two handmade friends, an unsettling middle-grade novel, a YA novel featuring fan fiction favorites, and many more.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Holt, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-62779-212-7. Set in the same world as her Grisha trilogy, Bardugo brings together six misfits to stage a heist. Read a Q & A with Bardugo here. The novel netted a starred review from PW.
Little Elliot, Big Family by Mike Curato. Holt, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-8050-9826-6. The follow-up to Little Elliot, Big City follows the polka-dotted elephant as he searches for a place to belong in his new home. The book earned a starred review from PW.
Thank You and Good Night by Patrick McDonnell. Little, Brown, $15.99; ISBN 978-0-316-33801-1. McDonnell offers up his traditional tiny animal characters in an homage to bedtime books in children’s literature. PW gave the book a starred review.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness. HarperTeen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-240316-2. The author of the Chaos Walking trilogy has written a satirical look at the Chosen One trope within YA literature.
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, illus. by Jon Klassen. $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4814-3232-0. Oppel teams up with illustrator Klassen in this Gaimanesque psychological thriller, in which a boy experiences anxiety when his baby brother is born with a rare disorder.
This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen. Simon & Schuster, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4814-5150-5. The Newbery Honor author of Hatchet ventures into nonfiction with these anecdotal stories about animals.
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. St. Martin’s Griffin, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-250-04955-1. Rowell offers up an entire novel following the characters of the alternative fictional world within her previous novel Fangirl.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illus. by Jim Kay. Scholastic/Levine, $39.99; ISBN 978-0-545-79035-2. The illustrator of A Monster Calls has created lush paintings to re-illustrate Rowling’s now classic story.
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan. Disney-Hyperion, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-6091-5. Riordan’s newest series takes Norse mythology from Boston to Valhalla.
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt. Clarion, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-544-46222-9. The Printz Honor and Newbery Honor winner offers a YA novel about a 14-year-old boy recovering from trauma, and looking for his own child, born when he was 13. PW gave the book a starred review.
Lenny & Lucy by Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-59643-932-0. The husband and wife team behind Caldecott winner A Sick Day for Amos McGee pair up again for the story of a worrisome boy, who builds himself friends from leaves and blankets.
Happy! by Pharrell Williams. Putnam, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-399-17643-2. The popular song is translated into a photographic picture book.
For more children’s and YA titles on sale throughout the month of October, check out PW’s full On-Sale Calendar.
