Miranda Paul, illus. by Elizabeth Zunon. Lerner/Millbrook, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-1608-6
One woman’s efforts to rid her Gambian village of trash sparks a recycling movement in this uplifting tale inspired by true events. As a girl, Isatou admired the colors and myriad uses of the plastic bags that began to proliferate in her community....
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Jason Chin. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-984-9
Two siblings from a mixed-race family engage in water-related activities throughout the year in a poetic exploration of the forms that water takes. First seen exploring a pond behind their idyllic home, the boy and girl are driven indoors by a...
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Maggie Caton. Little Bee, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0422-5
In this fairly bonkers picture book, a lonely pink blobfish’s verbal invitation to an underwater bash (“Deep-sea party! Bring a treat to share!”) gets mangled as it spreads. “But the mermaids heard... ‘Cheap, free party! Sling on a sheet to wear!’ ”
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Baptiste and Miranda Paul, illus. by Isabel Muñoz. Little Bee, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0665-6
The husband-and-wife coauthors explore how children from 13 countries travel to school. The accounts, which are fictionalized but are based on the commutes of actual children, are told in vivid first-person narratives, which Muñoz conveys in gentle,
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Jason Chin. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4161-7
Realistic, light-infused paintings by Chin (Grand Canyon) and spare rhymes by Paul (Are We Pears Yet?) highlight a fetus’s developmental milestones inside a mother’s womb while outside, a family lovingly prepares, month by month, for the baby’s...
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Edited by Miranda Paul, illus. by Marlena Myles. Millbrook, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-541523-63-0
This anthology of 32 poems by a diverse array of writers invites readers into a deeper understanding of gratitude. Paul, a We Need Diverse Books cofounder, knits together an impressive patchwork of poetic forms and voices, including an acrostic ode...
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Julien Chung. Beach Lane, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-0440-7
A year’s worth of days is a lot to wrap one’s head around, as signified by the 365 neatly numbered circles that fill the front endpapers of this chatty explainer from Paul (Little Libraries, Big Heroes) and Chung (Vrooom, Vrooom!). Revealing that a...
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Carin Berger. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-351-1
Paul (10 Little Ninjas) and Berger (Good Night! Good Night!) transport readers to a music hall stage, complete with footlights, and present a theatrical revue starring two pear seeds. One is smaller, impatient, and endlessly interrogative, playing a
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Miranda Paul, illus. by John Parra. Clarion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-80027-4
Paul (Nine Months) frames her nonfiction account of Little Free Libraries as a story about ordinary heroes. After Todd Bol’s librarian mother dies, he creates a small one-room schoolhouse on a stand and fills it with books to share her “love of...
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Miranda Paul, illus. by Nate Wragg. Knopf, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-53497-9
In Paul’s (Water Is Water) boisterous story set to the tune of “Ten Little Monkeys,” 10 ethnically diverse children avoid bedtime by adopting new personas, including ninjas, “prowling tigers,” and “rowdy cowboys.” Replacing the “doctor” in the...
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Rashida and Adam Tlaib, with Miranda Paul, illus. by Olivia Aserr. Clarion, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-358-68343-8
Two boys accompany their mother to work in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Building in this familial account of Palestinian American congressperson Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Inside the...
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