With the holiday season upon us, we are excited to display these delightful titles and celebrate the holidays across many cultures and traditions. From Diwali to Lunar New Year, we hope to diversify your reading list into the new year.
Read More »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!
We’re so excited to see our educator friends November 20 to 23 in Denver, CO!
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
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!
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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