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RIGHTS CATALOGUE SPRING 2020
Coming Fall 2020 Coming Fall 2020
Do Lizards Eat Ice Cream? Cone Cat
How Animals Beat the Heat Written by Sarah Howden • Illustrated by Carmen Mok
Written by Etta Kaner • Illustrated by Jenna Piechota
Jeremy the cat doesn’t know what to make
The greatly anticipated follow-up to Do Frogs of the horrible cone that his humans have
Drink Hot Chocolate?, this upcoming title uses stuck around his neck. But as he stumbles
a question-and-answer format to explore into some unexpected advantages of having
the wacky ways animals keep cool, through a built-in cone, he realizes being Cone Cat
engaging comparisons with the ways people is like having a new super-cat power.
try to keep cool.
Picture Book • Fall 2020
32 pages • 10 x 9 • Ages 3–7
Nonfiction Picture Book • Fall 2020
32 pages • 7.5 x 9 • Ages 4–8
Previously by Etta Kaner: Do Frogs Drink
Hot Chocolate?
How Animals Keep Warm
Written by Etta Kaner • Illustrated by John Martz
An upbeat exploration of how animals stay
warm in cold weather. This interactive book
uses playful phrasing and comic illustrations
to make the content engaging for readers.
Kids will gain newfound knowledge and an
early understanding of adaptations in nature.
Nonfiction Picture Book • Fall 2018
32 pages • 7.5 x 9 • Ages 4–8
Rights sold: Chinese (complex & simplified),
French (Canada), Hungarian, Russian, Turkish
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Coming Fall 2020 Coming Fall 2020
Raj’s Rule I Do Not Like Stories
(For the Bathroom at School) Written by Andrew Larsen • Illustrated by Carey Sookocheff
Written by Lana Button • Illustrated by Hatem Aly
The boy in this story does not like stories.
Raj’s strict rule is not to use the bathroom at In fact, the only thing he seems to like is
school. In order to follow this rule, more rules his cat. She follows him out the door as
pile up. No juice boxes. No hanging with funny he heads to school one day and has an
Kyle who makes him laugh too hard. Definitely accidental adventure in the city. The
no sneezes. But when Raj accidentally breaks a charming ending proves that there is a
rule, he discovers that facing your fears leads to story out there for everyone after all.
endless possibilities—and fun!
Picture Book • Fall 2020
32 pages • 9.5 x 9.5 • Ages 3–7
Picture Book • Fall 2020
32 pages • 7.5 x 9 • Ages 3–7
The Egg Sometimes A Wall...
Story and illustrations by Geraldo Valério Written by Dianne White • Illustrated by Barroux
Vibrant and expressive collage illustrations Walls can inspire creativity and art.
evoke the universal emotions of love, loss, They can represent a disappointing end.
and hope on a whimsical, wordless journey And walls can act as a divider. As a diverse
into parenthood—featuring a crane, a lost group of kids play at building walls, they
egg, and a human baby hatchling. learn important lessons about connection,
redemption, and inclusion.
Picture Book • Fall 2020
40 pages • 9.5 x 9.5 • Ages 3–7 Picture Book • Fall 2020
32 pages • 8 x 10.5 • Ages 4–8
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Coming Fall 2020 Coming Fall 2020
Maurice and His Dictionary The Paper Boat
A True Story A Refugee Story
Written by Cary Fagan • Illustrated by Enzo Lord Mariano Story and illustration by Thao Lam
The real-life story of a Jewish boy and his Thao Lam was two when her family fled
family’s journey as refugees, after fleeing Vietnam. Her mother’s memories of the
Belgium when the Nazis invaded. Maurice ants in her childhood home provide Thao
continued to focus on learning, even as his with an effective symbol for the resilience
world turned upside-down. Told by his own and strength in the family bonds it took
son in this graphic novel format, this refugee’s to escape from a war-torn country.
story about the trials of war also offers a
resonating homage to the power of education.
Graphic Novel • Fall 2020
56 pages • 9 x 11 • Ages 8–12
Picture Book • Fall 2020
40 pages • 8.25 x 11 • Ages 6–9
Previously by Thao Lam:
Alice and Gert My Cat Looks Like My Dad Wallpaper Skunk on a String
An Ant and Grasshopper Story
Written by Helaine Becker • Illustrated by Dena Seiferling
Alice works hard to prepare for the coming
winter, but Gert would rather play, sing,
entertain Alice, and enjoy the summer. This
sweet story is an ode to the power of art in
everyday life and a celebration of the strength
in the differences between two friends. Fall 2019 Spring 2018 Spring 2016
Rights Sold: Chinese (simplified), Rights Sold: Korean Rights Sold: Korean
French (N. America), Turkish
“Unique and visually stunning.” “[Thao Lam] orchestrates suspense
“A warmhearted window into
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) and comedy.”
the things that make up family.”
Picture Book • Fall 2020 — Booklist (starred review) — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Rich visual storytelling.”
24 pages • 7.75 x 9.5 • Ages 3–7
“Clever and sweet, with broad — PW (starred review)
appeal for all ages.”
“A delight from start to finish.”
— SLJ (starred review) — Q&Q (starred review)
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Coming Fall 2020 Coming Fall 2020
My Wild Life Pretty Tricky
Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer The Sneaky Ways Plants Survive
By Suzi Eszterhas Written by Etta Kaner • Illustrated by Ashley Barron
Wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas tells the Most people know about Venus flytraps,
tale of how she turned her childhood dream but did you know there are other plants that
into a career. She recalls the amazing animals resort to daring survival tactics? Discover the
she has encountered while traveling around unexpected superpowers of plants—from
the globe, and the important things she’s camouflage to smelly, built-in alarm systems—
learned—including an impactful lesson in in this new nonfiction work from the author
respecting our world and the other animal of the best-selling Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate?
inhabitants who share it.
Illustrated Nonfiction • Fall 2020
Nonfiction Picture Book • Fall 2020 48 pages • 9 x 11.5 • Ages 7–10
32 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • Ages 7–10
No Cheaters Allowed!
Snapdragons are experts at outsmarting “cheater”
Bumblebees are perfect for brushing against the
snapdragon’s anthers (the pollen-producing part of a
flower). The snapdragon’s welcome mat is its differently
insects—ones that are so small they can steal nectar colored lower lip, which guides the bee to the flower’s
from a flower without picking up pollen or leaving some opening. The lower lip also has a bumpy surface to
behind. The plant just won’t let these insects enter its increase friction so the bee won’t slip. And what about
flower! But for fat and fuzzy bumblebees, snapdragons those cheater insects? Lightweight insects don’t have a
put out the welcome mat. chance when it comes to snapdragons! Only the weight
of a bumblebee on the flower’s lower lip can open the
snapdragon’s mouth.
Snapdragon
WHERE IT GROWS:
Worldwide
More about Suzi’s wild life:
Moto and Me
My Year as a Wildcat’s Foster Mom
Moto and Me tells the remarkable firsthand 32 33
story of Suzi’s care for an orphaned baby
serval in Kenya, from raising him to
releasing him back into the wild.
“A model of narrative non-fiction for the elementary-age audience…
with guaranteed child appeal.”
— Kirkus (starred review)
“Tender… a vibrant, small scall comeback story. ”
— PW (starred review)
Nonfiction Picture Book • Spring 2019
40 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • Ages 7–10
Rights sold: Czech
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Coming Spring 2021 Coming Spring 2021
Frogness Barnaby
Written by Sarah Nelson • Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes Written by Andrea Curtis • Illustrated by Kass Reich
A picture book about Sammy and Barnaby the beautiful blue budgie is the
Chocolate, who hope to catch a frog in pride and joy of his owner. But one day, she
the croaking, chirping, twilight marsh, comes home with a new bird and Barnaby
but they catch something so much won’t have it. He protests to no avail and
better—muddy, magical frogness. finally flies away out the window. Alone in
the unfamiliar world, however, Barnaby
learns that compassion holds more value
than competition.
Picture Book • Spring 2021
32 pages • 9.75 x 8.5 • Ages 3–7
Picture Book • Spring 2021
32 pages • 10 x 10 • Ages 3–7
The Sorry Life of The House in the
Timothy Shmoe Middle of the Road
Written by Stephanie McLellan • Illustrated by Zoe Si Written by Deborah Kerbel • Illustrated by Yong Ling Kang
Timothy Shmoe is not a bad kid, but When an expanding city swallows up the
sometimes he does bad things. A series of landscape around a young rabbit’s ancestral
apology notes to his various victims reveals dwelling, her grandma refuses to move,
how his habit of crimes, blunders, mistakes, insisting that the house is their forever home,
and antics can sometimes (or all the time) immovable as mountains. Seeing good in
turn his family’s world upside down. Luckily, both sides: change and tradition, the young
he will always have their unconditional rabbit finds a way to honor their home—
love—and they will have his. and move mountains at the same time. Picture Book • Spring 2021
32 pages • 8.25 x 8 • Ages 4–8
Picture Book • Spring 2021
32 pages • 9.5 x 10 • Ages 4–8
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Coming Spring 2021 Welcome to Camp Average
Sunlight Journey Craig Battle’s three-book series will be completed in spring 2021!
Written by James Gladstone • Illustrated by Yaara Eshet
Camp Average
This story of Halley’s Comet, told from
the comet’s own perspective, ties the Written by Craig Battle
history of the renowned astronomical
In a story full of plotting, planning, and plenty
phenomenon of Halley’s return every
of push-ups, it’s a full-court press on losing for
75 years with our own human history.
the campers, strategic play-by-play for the camp
The ways that Halley has touched
director, and great teamwork on all sides. The
people around the globe for millennia,
first book in the Camp Average series is a smart,
scientifically and culturally, is revealed.
funny summer read featuring a diverse group of
realistic characters and a winning storyline.
Juvenile Fiction • Spring 2019 “Hilarious, irreverent, and timely, highly recommended for sports fans, summer-camp
alums, and preteen-year survivors”
240 pages • 5.5 x 8 • Ages 8–12 — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Nonfiction Picture Book • Spring 2021
32 pages • 9 x 12 • Ages 4–8
Camp Average: Double Foul
BATTLE
CRAIG
“Mack knew that when others
looked at their camp director, they saw
Written by Craig Battle
CAMP
a normal-looking man with an affinity
for short shorts. But he saw a robber
pirate with chainsaw limbs spitting lava.
AND HE KNEW HIS VERSION
WAS MORE ACCURATE.”
The second Camp Average book will engage series
Introducing book two of the Pierre & Paul series!
CAMP newcomers and returning fans alike as it enters
into another summer and all-new shenanigans
Double Foul
Pierre & Paul: Avalanche!
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Avalon between Mack, his friends, a new group of girl
campers, and of course the tyrannical camp
director, Winston—who announces some
Publisher of Chirp, Chickadee and OWL
Pierre & Paul: Dragon!
www.owlkidsbooks.com
CRAIG BATTLE
Juvenile Fiction • Spring 2020 dubious plans for the basketball team.
Written by Caroline Adderson • Illustrated by Alice Carter
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272 pages • 5.5 x 8 • Ages 8–12
Meet two best friends who speak two
different languages! Told half in French
and half in English, these books can be Camp Average: Crosscheck
adapted into any two languages. Simple Written by Craig Battle
phrasing and visual cues in the illustrations
make the story easy for early readers to
I N G The gang is back for a new summer, but one
decode in both languages. Illustrations in a
loose, colorful style turn this vocabulary- COM ON camper is missing. Due to a deal that saved the
basketball team last year, star athlete Andre is
learning tool into an engaging display of
friendship and imagination!
SO stuck at Killington, their rival camp. And he
wants out. To bring his friend back, Mack takes
“Colorful illustrations, field notes, and cleverly intergrated word keys
his new battle of schemes to the ball hockey
Picture Book • Spring 2020 promote comprehension.” field, resulting in the return of someone else…
— Foreword (starred review for Pierre & Paul: Avalanche) Juvenile Fiction • Spring 2021 the evil camp director, Winston.
32 pages • 8 x 11 • Ages 5–8
“Very silly and very smart, this distinctive find is worth checking out.” 5.5 x 8 • Ages 8–12
— Kirkus Reviews (Pierre & Paul: Avalanche)
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Picture Books Picture Books
Also available in Board Book format as:
Up! How Famillies Upsy Daisy, Baby! Panda Opposites Don’t Let Go! William’s Getaway Sprout, Seed, Sprout!
Around the World Carry By Suzi Eszterhas By Élisabeth Eudes-Pascal By Annika Dunklee, By Annika Dunklee,
Board Book
Their Little Ones Yong Ling Kang Carey Sookocheff
6.5 x 6.5 in Hardcover
by Susan Hughes, Board Book
24 pages 8.5 x 6 in
7 x 7 in Hardcover Hardcover
Ashley Barron Ages 0 – 3 32 pages
24 pages 8.125 x 10 in 9 x 7.5 in
Ages 0 – 3 Ages 2 – 5 32 pages 32 pages
Hardcover
Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7
8.25 x 8 in Rights sold: Danish,
24 pages Japanese Rights sold: Turkish
Ages 2 – 5
Also available in Board Book format as:
Love You Love You I Love You Like... Skunk on a String Wallpaper My Cat Looks
Head to Toe Head to Toe By Lori Joy Smith By Thao Lam By Thao Lam Like My Dad
by Ashley Barron By Thao Lam
Board Book Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
Hardcover 6.5 x 6 in 8 x 8 in 10.5 x 8.5 in 8.5 x 10.5 in Hardcover
10 x 8 in 28 pages 32 pages 40 pages 32 pages 8.75 x 11 in
32 pages Ages 0 – 3 Ages 2 – 5 Ages 4 – 7 Ages 4 – 7 32 pages
Ages 0 – 3 Ages 3 – 7
Rights sold: Korean Rights sold: Korean
Rights sold:
Chinese (simplified),
French (Canada), Turkish
Also available in BB format! Also available in BB format!
You Are One You Are Two You Are Three Oddrey Oddrey and the Oddrey Joins
by Sara O’Leary, by Sara O’Leary, by Sara O’Leary, By Dave Whamond New Kid the Team
Karen Klassen Karen Klassen Karen Klassen By Dave Whamond By Dave Whamond
Paperback
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 8.25 x 10.25 in Paperback Hardcover
8.25 x 8.25 in 8.25 x 8.25 in 8.25 x 8.25 in 32 pages 8.25 x 10.25 in 8.25 x 10.25 in
Board Book Board Book 24 pages Ages 4 – 7 32 pages 32 pages
7.25 x 7.25 7.25 x 7.25 Ages 0 – 3 Ages 4 – 7 Ages 4 – 7
Rights sold:
24 pages 24 pages Rights sold: Chinese (simplified), Korean Rights sold: Rights sold:
Ages 0 – 3 Ages 0 – 3 Chinese (simplified) Chinese (simplified), French Chinese (simplified), French
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Chinese (simplified) Chinese (simplified)
A Fire Truck What Noise Do Crackerjack Jack Dojo Daycare Dojo Daytrip Dojo Surprise
for Chuck I Make? By Bowman Wilker, By Chris Tougas By Chris Tougas By Chris Tougas
By Annika Dunklee, Cathon By Brian McLachlan Marie-Ève Tremblay
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 8.5 x 8.5 in 8.5 x 8.5 in 8.5 x 8.5 in
7 x 7 in 8.5 x 9 in 9 x 9 in 32 pages 32 pages 32 pages
32 pages 64 pages 24 pages Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7
Ages 2 – 5 Ages 2 – 5 Ages 3 – 7
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French (N.America)
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Picture Books Picture Books
You and Me Both Phoebe Sounds It Out Not ‘Til Tomorrow Margo Thinks Twice Little Book of A Dog Day for Susan
By Mahtab Narsimhan, By Julie Zwillich, Phoebe By Monica Arnaldo Big Fears By Maureen Fergus,
Lisa Cinar Denise Holmes By Julie Zwillich, By Monica Arnaldo Monica Arnaldo
Denise Holmes Hardcover
Hardcover Hardcover 9 x 10 in Hardcover Hardcover
9.5 x 9.5 in 8 x 9 in Hardcover 32 pages 8.75 x 7 in 10.5 x 9 in
24 pages 32 pages 8 x 9 in Ages 3 – 7 40 pages 32 pages
Ages 3 – 6 Ages 3 – 7 32 pages Ages 3 – 7 Ages 4 – 7
Ages 3 – 7 Rights sold: Korean, Turkish
Rights sold: Dutch
Whoosh! The Trouble with Robot SMASH! Arto’s Big Move Little Brothers Sloth at the Zoom
A Watery World of Time Travel By Stephen W. Martin, By Monica Arnaldo & Little Sisters By Helaine Becker,
Wonderful Creatures By Stephen W. Martin, Juan Carlos Solon By Monica Arnaldo Orbie
Hardcover
By Marilyn Baillie, Cornelia Li
Hardcover 8 x 10 in
Susan Mitchell Hardcover Hardcover
8.5 x 8.25 in 40 pages
Hardcover 8 x 10 in 8.5 x 9.75 in
32 pages Ages 4 – 7
8.5 x 10 in 32 pages 40 pages
Hardcover Ages 3 – 7
24 pages Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7
8.5 x 9.25 in
Ages 3 – 7
32 pages
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Ages 3 – 7
English (Australia/New French (N. America)
Rights sold: Korean Zealand), French (Canada),
Turkish
And What If I Won’t? Liam Takes a Stand The Sinking of
Captain Otter Milo and Georgie Kyle Goes Alone Frank and Laverne
By Maureen Fergus, By Troy Wilson,
By Bree Galbraith, By Jan Thornhill, By Dave Whamond,
Qin Leng Josh Holinaty By Troy Wilson,
Josée Bisaillon Ashley Barron Jennifer Stokes
Maria Chiodi
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
10 x 9 in 7.5 x 10 in Hardcover 9.25 x 8.75 in 9 x 12 in 7.5 x 9.5 in
32 pages 32 pages 10.13 x 7.5 in 32 pages 32 pages 40 pages
Ages 4 – 7 Ages 3 – 7 32 pages Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7 Ages 3 – 7
Ages 3 – 7
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Chinese (simplified), French Rights sold: Korean, Russian Rights sold:
(N. America), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
Korean, Turkish
Maxwell the Ira Crumb Makes a Ira Crumb Feels Tricky Jammie Day! Dog vs. Ultra Dog
Monkey Barber Pretty Good Friend the Feelings By Kari Rust By Carrie Snyder, By Troy Wilson,
By Cale Atkinsonf By Naseem Hrab, By Naseem Hrab, Brooke Kerrigan Clayton Hanmer
Hardcover
Josh Holinaty Josh Holinaty
Hardcover 10 x 8 in Hardcover
Hardcover
8 x 11 in 40 pages 9.5 x 8.5 in
Hardcover Hardcover 9 x 9 in
32 pages Ages 3 – 7 32 pages
8.5 x 11 in 8.5 x 11 in 32 pages
Ages 3 – 7 32 pages Ages 3 – 7 Ages 4 – 7
32 pages
Ages 5 – 8 Rights sold: Italian
Ages 5 – 8
Rights sold: Korean, Rights sold: Italian, Turkish
Russian Rights sold: Turkish Rights sold: Turkish
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Picture Books Informational Picture Books
See You Next Year Little Doctor and Freda and the Clarence’s Big Secret A Likkle Miss Lou Oscar Lives Next Door
By Andrew Larsen, the Fearless Beast Blue Beetle By Christine MacGregor Cation How Jamaican Poet Louise A Story Inspired by Oscar
By Sophie Gilmore By Sophie Gilmore and Roy MacGregor, Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice Peterson’s Childhood
Todd Stewart
Mathilde Cinq-Mars By Nadia L. Hohn, By Bonnie Farmer,
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
7.5 x 11 in 7.5 x 11 in Eugenie Fernandes Marie Lafrance
11 x 7.5 in Hardcover
32 pages 32 pages 32 pages 9 x 10 in
Ages 5 – 8 Ages 4 – 8 Hardcover Hardcover
Ages 3 – 7 32 pages 8.5 x 11 in 9 x 11 in
Ages 4 – 8 32 pages
Rights sold: German, 32 pages
Italian, Korean Ages 4 – 8 Ages 4 – 8
Rights sold:
French (N. America)
What Happens Next When Molly The House at the
The Man Who The Artist and Me I Am Josephine
By Susan Hughes, Drew Dogs End of the Road (And I Am a Living Thing)
Loved Libraries By Shane Peacock,
Carey Sookocheff By Deborah Kerbel, By Kari Rust The Story of Andrew Carnegie Sophie Casson By Jan Thornhill,
Lis Xu By Andrew Larsen, Jacqui Lee
Hardcover Hardcover
8.5 x 11.75 in Katty Maurey Hardcover
8.25 x 10.75 in
Hardcover 40 pages 8.5 x 10 in Hardcover
40 pages
8.25 x 8.5 in Ages 4 – 8 40 pages 8.5 x 11.25 in
Ages 4 – 12 Hardcover
32 pages Ages 5 – 9 32 pages
8.25 x 11.25 in
Ages 4 – 8 Rights sold: Korean Ages 4 – 8
Rights sold: Greek 32 pages
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Ages 4 – 8
Chinese (simplified), Rights sold:
Japanese, Korean, Turkish English (Commonwealth),
Dutch
Golden Threads Usha and the Maya My House is Alive Flow Spin Grow A Ticket Around
by Etta Kaner, Stolen Sun By Mahak Jain, The Weird and Wonderful Looking for Patterns in Nature the World
David Anderson By Bree Galbraith, Sounds Your House Makes By Patchen Barss By Natalia Diaz,
Elly Mackay
Josée Bisaillon By Scot Ritchie Todd Stewart Melissa Owens,
Hardcover Hardcover Kim Smith
8 x 9 in 10.5 x 8 in
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
32 pages 32 pages
8.5 x 10.5 in 8 x 9 in 8 x 10 in Hardcover
Ages 4 – 8 Ages 4 – 8
32 pages 40 pages 32 pages 10 x 9 in
Ages 5 – 8 Ages 4 – 7 Ages 4 – 8 32 pages
Ages 5 – 8
Rights sold: French
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Bill Bowerbird and Where Are You Now?
the Unbearable By Tyler Clark Burke
Beak-Ache
Hardcover
By Tyler Clark Burke
9 x 9 in
32 pages
Hardcover
Ages 4+
10.5 x 9.13 in
32 pages
Ages 3 – 7
17 18Informational Picture Books Non-Fiction
You Are Stardust Wild Ideas When Planet Earth Why? How? An Inuksuk
By Elin Kelsey, By Elin Kelsey, Was New The Best Ever Question and The Most Awesome Question and Means Welcome
Soyeon Kim Soyeon Kim James Gladstone, Answer Book about Nature, Answer Book about Nature, By Mary Wallace
Katherine Diemert Science, and the World Animals, People, Places—and You!
Hardcover Hardcover around you. Hardcover
By Catherine Ripley,
8.25 x 10.25 in 8.25 x 10.25 in Hardcover 9 x 12 in
32 pages 10.5 x 8.5 in By Catherine Ripley, Scot Ritchie 32 pages
32 pages
Ages 4+ Ages 4+ 40 pages Scot Ritchie Ages 3 – 7
Ages 4 – 8 Hardcover
Rights sold: English (world), Hardcover 8 x 10 in
Rights sold: Chinese 192 pages
Korean, Turkish Rights sold: 8 x 10 in
(simplified), English (world), Ages 3 – 7
Chinese (simplified), English 192 pages
Korean, Russian, Spanish
(Commonwealth), Korean Ages 3 – 7
(Spain & Latin America), Thai,
Rights sold: Chinese (simpli-
Catalan, Turkish
fied), Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish
Rights sold: Hungarian,
Polish, Russian, Turkish
You Are Never Alone A Last Goodbye Earthrise
I Can Make That! Worms for Breakfast Acting Wild
By Elin Kelsey, Apollo 8 and the
By Elin Kelsey, Fantastic Crafts for Kids How to Feed a Zoo How We Behave Like Birds,
Photo That Changed the World
Soyeon Kim Soyeon Kim By Mary Wallace By Helaine Becker, Bugs, and Beasts
By James Gladstone,
Kathy Boake By Maria Birmingham,
Hardcover Hardcover Christy Lundy Hardcover Dave Whamond
8.25 x 10.25 in 8.25 x 10.25 in 8.5 x 10.5 in Hardcover
32 pages 32 pages Hardcover 152 pages 9 x 10.5 in Hardcover
Ages 4+ Ages 4+ 8 x 10 in Ages 4 – 8 40 pages 9 x 11 in
32 pages Ages 7 – 10 32 pages
Rights sold: Korean Ages 4 – 8 Rights sold: Korean Ages 7 – 10
Rights sold: Dutch, French
The Wolf-Birds Winter’s Coming Is This Panama? Meatless? Not Your Typical Book
By Willow Dawson A Story of Seasonal Change A Migration Story A Fresh Look at What You Eat Friend of Foe About The Environment
By Jan Thornhill, By Jan Thornhill, By Sarah Elton, The Whole Truth about By Elin Kelsey,
Hardcover Josée Bisaillon Soyeon Kim Julie McLaughlin Clayton Hanmer
Animals That People Love
10 x 9 in
40 pages to Hate
Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover
Ages 5 – 8 By Etta Kane,
9 x 9 in 9 x 9 in 9 x 9.5 in 10 x 8.5 in
32 pages 40 pages 48 pages David Anderson 64 pages
Rights sold: Ages 5 – 8 Ages 5 – 8 Ages 8 – 12 Ages 9 – 13
Chinese (simplified) Hardcover
Rights sold: Rights sold: Rights sold: Korean 8,75 x 11.25 in Rights sold: Korean,
Chinese (simplified), Korean, Chinese (simplified), Korean, 48 pages Spanish (N.&S. America)
Turkish Turkish Ages 8 – 12
Rights sold:
French (Canada), Russian,
Spanish (N.&S. America),
Ukrainian
19 20Non-Fiction Non-Fiction
A Beginner’s Guide Biometrics Tastes Like Music What If Soldiers Fought Why Do We Fight? The Art of the Possible
to Immortality Your Body and the Science 17 Quirks of the Brain with Pillows? Conflict, War, and Peace An Everyday Guide to Politics
From Alchemy to Avatars of Security and Body True Stories of Imagination By Niki Walker By Edward Keenan,
By Maria Birmingham, By Maria Birmingham, By Maria Birmingham, and Courage Julie McLaughlin
Josh Holinaty Ian Turner Monika Melnychuk By Heather Camlot, Hardcover
7.25 x 9.25 in Hardcover
Serge Bloch
Hardcover Hardcover Paperback 80 pages 7.5 x 9.5 in
7.25 x 9.5 in 7.5 x 9.5 in 7.38 x 9.5 in Ages 10 – 14 64 pages
Hardcover
48 pages 48 pages 40 pages Ages 10 – 14
8.5 x 10.5 in
Ages 8 – 12 Ages 8 – 12 Ages 8 – 12 Rights sold: English (Common-
40 pages
wealth), Korean, Portuguese Rights sold: Korean
Ages 8 – 12
Rights sold: Russian Rights sold: Korean (Brazil), Spanish (N.&S. America),
Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Rights sold: French (Canada),
German, Korean, Spanish (N.&S.
America)
It’s Catching Why We Live Trending
Off to Class Killer Style Starting from Scratch
The Infectious World of Where We Live How and Why Stuff How Fashion Has Injured,
Incredible and Unusual By Sarah Elton,
Germs and Microbes By Kira Vermond, Gets Popular Maimed, and Murdered
Schools Around the World Jeff Kulak
By Jennifer Gardy PhD, By Kira Vermond, Through History
Julie McLaughlin By Susan Hughes
Josh Holinaty Clayton Hanmer By Alison Matthews-David, Hardcover
Paperback Paperback Serah-Marie McMahon, 7.5 x 9.5 in
Paperback 8.5 x 9.5 in Hardcover 8.5 x 10 in Gillian Wilson 96 pages
7.25 x 9.5 in 48 pages 8.5 x 9.5 in 64 pages Ages: 10+
64 pages Ages 8 – 12 48 pages Ages 9 – 12 Hardcover
Ages 8 – 12 Ages 8 – 12
9.5 x 10 in
Rights sold: Turkish, Ukrainian 48 pages
Rights sold:
Rights sold: Turkish, English (Commonwealth), Ages 9 – 12
Ukrainian
Korea
Half-Truths and The Secret Life Growing Up, The Last Train Level the Playing Field
Brazen Lies of Money Inside and Out A Holocaust Story The Past, Present, and Future
An Honest Look at Lying A Kid’s Guide to Cash By Kira Vermond, By Rona Arato of Women’s Pro Sports
By Kira Vermond, By Kira Vermond, Carl Chin By Kristina Rutherford
Clayton Hanmer Clayton Hanmer Paperback
Hardcover 5.5 x 8 in Hardcover
Hardcover Paperback 7 x 8.5 in 144 pages 9.75 x 9.75 in
7.5 x 9.5 in 6 x 9 in 104 pages Ages 9+ 56 pages
48 pages 160 pages Ages 9 – 12 Ages 10 – 14
Ages 8 – 12 Ages 9 – 13
Rights sold: Korean
Rights sold: Korean, Rights sold:
Spanish (Spain) French (Canada), Russian,
Spanish (N.&S. America),
Ukrainian
21 22Backlist Backlist
Simone How to Spot Draw Out the Story Series: CHIRP
Even More Monstrous! a Sasquatch Ten Secrets to Creating Your by J.Torres
Own Comics 8 x 8 in
By Rémy Simard By J.Torres,
Aurélie Grand By Brian McLachlan 24 pages
Harcover Age (years) 3-7
7 x 9 in Hardcover Paperback
48 pages 6.5 x 8.5 in 6 x 8 in Including 12 adventures:
Ages 5 – 8 64 pages 144 pages - Thar She Blows
Ages 7 – 10 Ages 8 – 12 - To The Peak
Rights sold: French - Knights of the Awesome Castle
Rights sold: Turkish Rights sold: Chinese (complex), - Astro-Birds
Korean - Waddle of the Penguins
- The Fast and Furiously Happy
SERIES - A River Leaks Through It
- Ghost Town
Series: WEST MEADOWS DETECTIVES - Sandnado
by Liam O’Donnell, - Treasure Trap
Aurelie Grand - Foiled Again
5.5 x 7.25 in - Volcano Escape
Age (years) 7-10
West Meadows West Meadows West Meadows
Detectives:The Case Detectives:The Case- Detectives:The Case
of the Snack Snatcher Maker Mischief of the Berry Burglars
128 pages 128 pages 160 pages
Rights sold: German, Rights sold: German, Rights sold: German,
Turkish Turkish Turkish
Series: CLARA HUMBLE
by Anna Humphrey, Series: BABY ANIMALS Series: MATH IN NATURE Series: LEARN TO SPEAK
Lisa Cinar by Suzi Eszterhas by Lizann Flatt, 9.75 x 9 in
5.5 x 8 in 96 pages
8.25 x 9 in Ashley Barron
Age (years) 8-12 Age (years) 9-13
24 pages 10.5 x 8.5 in
Clara Humble and the Clara Humble: Clara Humble and the Age (years) 3-6 32 pages
Not-So-Super Powers Quiz Whiz Kitten Caboodle Age (years) 5-7
224 pages 240 pages 232 pages Learn to Speak Music
Baby Animals Playing Counting on Fall
A Guide to Creating, Performing,
Rights sold: Turkish Rights sold: Turkish Rights sold: Turkish Rights sold: Rights sold: and Promoting Your Songs
Czech, Danish Chinese (simplified), by John Crossingham, Jeff Kulak
English (UK), Korean Rights sold: Hungarian, Korean,
Spanish (N.&S. America)
Baby Animals Eating Sizing Up Winter Learn to Speak Dance
Series: MAX FINDER MYSTERY Collected Casebook A Guide to Creating, Performing,
Rights sold: Rights sold: and Promoting Your Moves
6 x 9 in Czech, Danish Chinese (simplified), by Ann-Marie Williams, Jeff Kulak
96 Pages
English (UK), Korean Rights sold: Hungarian, Korean
Ages 8+
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Baby Animals Moving Sorting through Spring Learn to Speak Fashion
A Guide to Creating, Showcasing,
Rights sold: Rights sold: and Promoting Your Style
Czech, Danish Chinese (simplified), by Laura de Carufel, Jeff Kulak
English (UK), Korean Rights sold: Korean
By Liam O’Donnell, By Liam O’Donnell, By Liam O’Donnell, By Liam O’Donnell, By Craig Battle, By Craig Battle, By Craig Battle, Baby Animals with Shaping Up Summer Learn to Speak Film
Michael Cho Michael Cho Michael Cho Ramón Pérez Ramón Pérez Ramón Pérez, Ramón Pérez, Their Families A Guide to Creating, Showcasing,
Barb Kelly, Caroline Versteeg, Rights sold: and Screening Your Movies
Rights sold: Rights sold: Rights sold: Rights sold: Rights sold:
Liam O’Donnell Liam O’Donnell Rights sold: Chinese (simplified), by Michael Glassbourg, Jeff Kulak
Dutch, English Dutch, English English (World), English (World), Spanish (Latin
Czech, Danish English (UK), Korean Rights sold: Korean
(World), Spanish (World), Spanish Spanish (Latin Spanish (Latin America)
(Latin America) (Latin America) America) America)
23 24Highlights! Highlights!
My Cat Looks Like My Dad Sloth at the Zoom Draw Out the Story Moto and Me
Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics My Year as a Wildcat’s Foster Mom
• Two starred reviews from Booklist • Toronto Pubic Library First
and SLJ! and Best List, 2018 • A TD Summer Reading Club selection, 2017 • Two starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and PW!
• 2019 Editors’ Choice • A Canadian Children’s Book • ILA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award, • A Junior Library Guild selection, 2017
Centre Best Book for Kids and Intermediate Non-Fiction, 2014
“Clever and sweet, with broad • Main Student Book Award List, 2019
Teens, 2018 • A Junior Library Guild selection, 2014
appeal for all ages.” • Texas Cypress-Fairbanks Horned Toad Tales Award
• Ontario Library Associatio • A Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book List, 2019
— School Library Journal Blue Spruce Award for Kids and Teens, 2014
(starred review) • Children’s Literature Association of Utah Beehive
(shortlisted), 2020 Award (nominee), 2019
• Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Non-
“This book has all the Fiction Award (finalist), 2014 • Arkansas Triple Crown Award (nominee), 2019
“A warm hearted window into the things, expected and otherwise, “A gentle lesson that positive alternatives to hurtling mindlessly secrets beginners
• Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award
that make up a family.” through life do exist.” might need.” “A model of narrative non-fiction for the elementary-age audience…
(shortlisted), 2014
— Booklist (starred review) — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) — Kirkus Reviews with guaranteed child appeal.”
• Maine Student Book Award (shortlisted), 2014
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
• Ontario Library Association Best Bets Top 10
Junior Non-Fiction List, 2013
Little Doctor and the When Planet Earth Was New Killer Style Biometrics
Fearless Beast How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, Your Body and the Science of Security
and Murdered Through History
• A starred review from Foreword Reviews!
• Three starred reviews from Kirkus, • Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Non-
• Saskatchewan Shining Willow Award • Two starred reviews from Booklist and
Booklist, and PW! Fiction Award (shortlisted), 2019
(shortlisted), 2019 Shelf Awareness!
• A Publishers Weekly Flying Start of
• A CBC/NSTA Oustanding Science Trade • B.C. Children’s Choice Red Cedar Book Award
Spring 2019 • A Junior Library Guild Selection, 2019
“Fusing art and Book, 2018 (shortlisted), 2019
• A Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2019 science…[a] • Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada
beautifully unique • Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s • Ontario Library Association Yellow Cedar
Non-Fiction (shortlisted), 2018 Award (shortlisted), 2020 Information Book Award (shortlisted), 2018
journey through
• An ABA Best Book for Young Readers, 2019 “A fun, futuristic look at
space and time.” • A Canadian Children’s Book Centre best • A Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book
the fascinating worlds of
Book for Kids and Teens, 2017 “A fun, yet thoughtful look inside fashion perils past and present.” for Kids and Teens, 2017
— Forewords recognition technology.”
“A rousing, toothy adventure.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Reviews — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
• Ontario Library Association Best Bets List, 2017 — Quill & Quire • Lane Anderson Award for Canadian Science
(starred review)
Writing, 2017
• Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s
Non-Fiction (shortlisted), 2018 • Science Writers & Communicators of Canada
Youth Book Award (shortlisted), 2017
25 26About Owlkids Books Inc.
Owlkids Books publications reflect and respect the intelligence, imagination, and curiosity of children,
marrying substance and style across the list. Covering a wide range of subjects, from insightful picture
books and humorous graphic novels to thought-provoking non-fiction, our books for children aged 0-13
are recognized for their signature energy, creativity, sense of humor, and thematic relevance. They have
been sold in more than 20 languages in countries around the world. In 2018 Owlkids Books was
nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Award for the best children’s publisher in North America.
Owlkids Books is a division of Bayard Canada.
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