Looking for new books to add to your library collection? Browse a selection of bestselling, award-winning 2025 paperback releases, including picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult crossover books!
2025 Notable Paperbacks
Tag: Picture Books
NCTE 2025 Conference Resource Center
We’re so excited to see our educator friends November 20 to 23 in Denver, CO!
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What’s inside our NCTE and ALAN Workshop Resource Center:
- Make the most of your NCTE and ALAN Workshop experience + meet your favorite authors & illustrators!
Check our NCTE and ALAN Workshop schedule for a full list of in-person author programs and book signings.
- We’ve collected our digital resources for you in this handy resource center!
Download our digital catalogs and request digital review copies!
- Not attending NCTE?
You can still download digital resources, request review copies, and more!
Watch our Winter 2026 School & Library Virtual Preview!
Watch our Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Winter 2026 Preview Event, where we previewed upcoming picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult titles! Stay tuned for our live special guests: author Petra Lord is in conversation about her young adult fantasy debut, Queen of Faces, and bestselling author Adib Khorram introduces his next memorable novel One Word, Six Letters.
Guest appearances from talented creators Matt Phelan (Bartleby), Victoria Chang (Eureka), and Elle Grenier (This Wretched Beauty: A Dorian Gray Remix).
Timestamps:
3:16 – Petra Lord Queen of Faces in conversation with Executive Editor at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Brian Geffen
13:42 – Picture Books
18:12 – Matt Phelan Bartleby
25:10 – Middle Grade
25:33 – Victoria Chang Eureka
37:40 – Young Adult
40:07 – Elle Grenier This Wretched Beauty: A Dorian Gray Remix
48:10 – Adib Khorram One Word, Six Letter
Thrilling and Chilling Reads for Halloween & Beyond !!
Looking for books that will send a chill down your spine? Or a sweet Halloween treat for young readers? Whatever floats your ghost, this book list will get readers in the Halloween spirit!
Discover more spell-binding stories →State Awards
Browse a catalog of our state award winners and nominees for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 and add these books to your TBR! Highlights include:
- The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh
- Dogtown by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko; illustrated by Wallace West
- Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
- Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
- Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illustrated by Rose Bousamra
- Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang; illustrated by LeUyen Pham
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Teacher’s Guides for Every Occasion!
If you’re looking to boost your lesson plans with great reads and important classroom discourse, we have a selection of guides to help! This list of teacher’s guides for every occasion can help you plan for the year! From well-loved canon to important historical moments, you’ll find pre-reading questions, discussion topics, and common core ties that are evergreen conversation starters.
Continue readingActivity Kit: A Snow Day for Amos McGee, written by Philip C. Stead; illustrated by Erin E. Stead
A Snow Day for Amos McGee
Written by Philip C. Stead; illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Ages 3-6
On Sale 09/30/2025
A cozy tale of winter hope and joy, from award-winning and New York Times-bestselling duo Philip and Erin Stead, perfect for fans of The Snowy Nap and The Mitten.
Amos McGee, the friendly zookeeper, loves spending time with his good friends no matter the season. When snow in the forecast never arrives, he decides to head home and hope it comes another day. But when overnight a surprise snowfall blankets the town in fluffy white, what shall his lovable squad of animals do? Visit Amos and play in the snow, of course!
Amos and his familiar companions are back for this delightfully snowy tale—the latest follow-up to the Caldecott Medal winner A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
dOWNLOAD THE Activity Kit FOR A Snow Day for Amos Mcgee →Discover Books for National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Looking for suggestions for titles that encourage kindness, empathy, and understanding in your classroom or library? Read on for a list of titles for every age reader, plus spotlights on Weirdo written by Tony Weaver, Jr. and illustrated by Jes & Cin Wibowo, and Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater.
DISCOVER BOOKS TO SHARE FOR NATIONAL BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH –Activity Kit: Evelyn Witch Gets a Pet by Beth Ferry; illustrated by Charles Santoso
Evelyn Witch Gets a Pet
By Beth Ferry; illustrated by Charles Santoso
Ages 3-6
On Sale Now!
An adorable witch is anxious to get the perfect pet but learns to have patience when she brings home a mystery egg in this laugh-out-loud picture book from New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry. Perfect for Halloween!
Evelyn Witch has everything a witch needs. Messy hair, bubbling potions, and perfectly carved pumpkins.
But there’s something missing… A pet!
Perhaps she’ll get a bat or a griffin, or— Oh. She can only afford the mystery pet: a plain white egg.
She watches and waits for it to hatch.
Sniveling snails, something has to be done! Evelyn rolls up her sleeves and heads to the library, where they keep all the best spells. It’s time to get serious.
dOWNLOAD THE Activity Kit FOR EVELYN WITCH GETS A PET →Latinx Voices for Kids & Teens
Looking for recommendations for books by Latinx authors? We’ve got you covered! Keep reading to discover new books and revisit your favorites! Plus, download our Latinx Voices catalog!
Spotlight: Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa
by Sara Andrea Fajardo and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
For Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we interviewed author and potato advocate Sara Andrea Fajardo, award-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal, and Connie Hsu, VP, Executive Editorial Director at Roaring Brook Press to hear how this book was made! Click here to read the interview, preview interior art, and learn more about Peruvian scientist and potato hero, Alberto Salas! Plus, find real photographs of Alberto Salas in action, taken when Juana visited Peru!
Discover Latinx Voices for kids and teens here →
