This is where you'll find Oklahoma authors and illustrators who have new books released within the past six months or books which will soon be released. If the date of publication is known, we'll list it. If not, it'll say "forthcoming." Click on each author's name to go to their one-page biography.
Spring of 2012 brings Tammi Sauer's newest picture books! Be sure to get an autographed copy of both of them. Sure winners from a winning author!
Here are some more!!
Bawk and Roll (Sterling, 2012)
Princess in Training (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
Oh, Nuts! (Bloomsbury, 2012)
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Oklahoma (Sterling, 2012)
The Fledgling Handbook, 101, is a handbook for the House of Night series written by P.C. Cast and illustrated by Kim doner. This book quickly hit the NYT's Best-Seller list! Here's a blurb about the book . . .
Merry meet, fledgling.Welcome to a new life, a new world, and a new you. Welcome to the House of Night! This might seem like a scary time, Fledgling, but never fear! As you start your journey through the ancient halls of the House of Night, this indispensable handbook will aid you in your transition from human to fledgling. Within these pages you will find invaluable information about the history of vampyres. You will also come to a better understanding of your body’s transformation, as well as read words of hope from great vampyres of the past and learn essential foundations of rituals and lore. Now, Fledgling, read on. A new life awaits you; your path to that magickal future begins here!
Kim Doner illustrated "The Fledgling Handbook, 101" written by P.C. Cast
An uppity duck goes a little haywire when the barnyard animals show up for a surprise swim in his otherwise peaceful pond. Now nominated for the 2012 North Carolina Children's Book Award.
Me Want Pets! by Simon & Schuster, forthcoming
Bawk and Roll by Sterling, forthcoming (This is a sequel to Chicken Dance)
Princess-in-Training by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming
Viola Louise Hassenfeffer is a princess who is anything but prim and proper--she karate chops, dives into the moat, and skateboards up and down the drawbridge. Princess Academy is a total bust--until a surprise dragon arrives and only Viola can save the day.
Oh, Nuts! by Bloomsbury, forthcoming
Three chipmunks with attitude feel like they're just not getting the attention they deserve at the zoo, so they go to great lengths to compete with the elephants, tigers, and zebras.
Gwendolyn's new Pet Club series is hot on the scene for easy-readers. She had four released in the fall of 2010 and four more released Jan. 2011. If you love easy-readers with only 150-300 words each, these are for you!
The Grave Robbers Secret, released Feb. 15, 2011, by Walker Books for Young Readers.
Here's a sneak peek:
The night his father forces him to help empty a grave to sell its contents to the medical college, Robby Hare swears he will never rob another grave. Yet he can't resist his fascination with the discoveries he knows the doctors will make as a result of their gruesome nighttime mission. Robby's wish for another way for his family to make ends meet is answered when William Burke and his daughter, Martha, come to live at their boarding house. Although he is grateful to avoid the graveyard, Robby senses something dangerous about Burke, and suspects him of involving his father in a broader web of evil-and possibly murder. Can Robby expose their scheme before innocent lives are lost?
In an exciting journey through the back alleys and graveyards of Philadelphia in the 1800s, to the halls of the nation's first hospital and the frontiers of medical research, Anna Myers will capture readers with the darker days of history.
