EDC/USBORNE

Series
Christmas Lullabies offers Christmas Lullabies with CD by Fiona Watt ($14.99, infant-up). Baby's Day Board Books adds Baby's Potty by Felicity Brooks and Francesca Allen ($8.99, 9 mos.-up). First Picture Board Books issues First Picture Action Rhymes by Jo Litchfield ($11.99, 9 mos.-up). New Touchy-Feely Board books are That's Not My Princess and That's Not My Snowman by Fiona Watt ($9.99 each, 9 mos.-up). Fiona Watt's Sleepy Baby Board Book joins Snuggletime Board Books ($8.99, 1-up). Look and Say Board Books releases Jobs and Vacation by Jo Litchfield ($7.99 each, 2-up). Litchfield's First Colors is new to Luxury Look and Say Board Books ($14.99, 2-up). Farmyard Tales Flashcards introduces Telling the Time Flashcards by Stephen Cartwright ($8.99, 3-up). And First Picture Language Books issues First Picture Word Book in French and First Picture Word Book in Spanish by Jo Litchfield ($11.99 each, 3-up).
There are six new Picture Books , including In the Castle by Anna Milbourne and Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and Katie Daynes ($9.99 each, 3-up). Joining Farmyard Tales Readers is Little Book of Train Stories and CD Pack by Heather Amery ($10.95, 4-up). Unicorns by Phillip Clarke joins Luxury Lift-the-Flap Learners ($11.99, 4-up). Stencil Books welcomes Animal Stencil Book by Ruth Brocklehurst ($12.99, 4-up). Beginners Nature offers 11 titles ($4.99 each, 5-7 to 6-8). Christmas Poems offers Christmas Poems by Sam Taplin ($12.99, 6-up). First Reading continues with eight books ($8.99 each, 6-up). Miniature Editions welcomes Little Book of Christmas Cooking by Fiona Watt ($6.99, 6-up); and Little Book of Poems for Young Children by Phillip Hawthorn ($7.99, 7-up). There are four new Famous Lives Gift Books ($8.99 each, 7-up). See Inside Board Books issues See Inside Ancient Rome by Katie Daynes ($12.99, 7-up). Young Reading Series Gift Books adds 12 titles ($8.99 each, 7-up to 8-up). Knights and Armor gains Knights and Armor by Rachel Firth ($17.99, 9-up). Bible Tales Readers releases Story of Baby Jesus Board Book by Heather Amery ($7.99, 10-up). And Stories from Shakespeare adds Mini Stories from Shakespeare by Anna Claybourne ($14.99, 12-up).

Paperback Series
Cautionary Tales continues with Don't Be Greedy, Graham by Phil Roxbee Cox ($7.99, 4-up). Joining Bible Tales Readers is Christmas Story by Heather Amery ($4.99, 5-up). There are four new Young Reading CD Packs ($9.99 each, 5-up). Activity Books gains three titles ($6.99-$8.99 each, 6-up). Children's Cooking serves up Christmas Fairy Cooking by Leonie Pratt and Catherine Atkinson ($8.99, 6-up). Three books join Starting Point Science ($4.99 each, 6-up). Young Puzzles offers Puzzle Pirates by Susannah Leigh ($6.99, 6-up).
Young Reading Series offers Dinosaurs by Russell Punter and Shocking Story of Electricity by Anna Claybourne ($5.99 each, 7-up). Story of Music by Eileen O'Brien is new to Music Books ($7.99, 9-up). Paperback Classics welcomes Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson and Henry Brook ($4.99, 10-up). True Adventure Stories continues with True Stories of the Blitz by Henry Brook ($4.99, 10-up). And joining Misadventures of Danny Cloke are Spell Behind Bars and Turn in the Grave by Bowvayne ($4.99 each, 11-up).

EERDMANS
Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary ($18) by Pauline Baynes introduces 20 medieval beasts. (All Ages)
Hail Mary and Our Father ($8 each) by Sabrina Bus, illus. by Xavier Deneux, explain the meaning of these prayers. (up to 4)
The Wild Girl ($17) by Chris Wormell. A girl living in a cave with her dog one day spies bear tracks leading to their home. (4-up)
Mr. Ferlinghetti's Poem ($18) by David Frampton. Woodcuts illustrate this tale based on a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (5-up)
Prairie Christmas ($17) by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illus. by Ronald Himler, is a holiday story set on the Nebraska prairie in 1880. (5-up)
The Cricket Winter ($15) by Felice Holman, illus. by Robyn Thomas. A boy and the cricket living beneath the floorboards of his home trap a pesky rat. (8-up)

ENCHANTED LION BOOKS (FSG, dist)
Monday ($16.95) by Anne Herbauts. This tale about the passing of time focuses on the days of the week and the seasons. (7-up)
The Magic Horse of Han Gan ($16.95) by Chen Jiang Hong. Based in part on the life of painter Han Gan, this tells of a boy's love of drawing horses. (7-up)

Series
Field Guides adds Weather by Eduardo Banqueri and Birds by Maria Angeles Julivert ($16.95 each, 8-up). And The History of Medicine prescribes Medicine in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Alex Woolf ($19.95, 10-up).