Scholastic Announces 2015 Summer Catalog, Shares Highlights from Reading List
By: Matt Smith Dec. 23, 2014
PICTURE BOOKS & BOARD BOOKS
• Ice Cream Summer is a delicious tongue-in-cheek vision of summer by Hans Christian Anderson Award winner and three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter SÃs that dishes up the whole scoop on everyone's favorite frozen treat-and proves that ice cream is every bit as enriching for the mind as it is for the taste buds.
• 8: An Animal Alphabet is a wild new picture book from award-winning author Elisha Cooper that lets you explore the animal world from aardvark to zebu! Look carefully, because for each letter of the alphabet, one animal is pictured eight times. Why 8? Look inside and find out.
• The Princess and the Pony is a laugh-out-loud story of overcoming first impressions and falling in love with one unforgettable roly-poly pony, by Kate Beaton, a major new picture book talent and author/illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hark! A Vagrant!
• Pepper & Poe is hilarious yet touching story about two soon-to-be sibling cats, Pepper & Poe, by Maurice Sendak Fellowship Award Winner Frann Preston-Gannon making her U.S. picture book debut.
• In The Sky Is Falling, award-winning author and illustrator Mark Teague tells his humorous version of "Chicken Little" with a zany twist!
NOT JUST FOR TEENS
• Not since The Book Thief has the character of Death played such an original and affecting part in a book for teens and adults, in Martha Brockenbrough's thrilling YA novel The Game of Love and Death.
• Bill Konigsberg, the author of Openly Straight, returns with an epic road trip involving family history, gay history, the girlfriend our hero can't have, the grandfather he never knew, and the Porcupine of Truth.
• Best friends, big fans, a mysterious web comic, and a long-lost girl collide in I Am Princess X, a riveting YA debut novel from acclaimed science fiction writer Cherie Priest (Boneshaker), with comic art by Kali Ciesemeier.
• There are twenty-seven hours and fifteen minutes left until a meteor strikes North America. What do you do with your last day on earth? All We Have is Now is a riveting novel from Lisa Schroeder about what matters most-when time is running out.
• Anything Could Happen is a poignant, hard-hitting exploration of love and friendship, a provocative debut by Will Walton about a gay Southern boy in love with his straight best friend.
• Who needs a wedding ring when you can pick up a sword? Daring intrigue, delicious romance and spine-tingling suspense fill the pages of Rook, an extraordinary tale from award-winning author Sharon Cameron.
MIDDLE GRADE
• From bestselling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes an exciting new series full of magical creatures, whimsical adventures and quirky illustrations in Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures.
• Now available in full color: Ann M. Martin's The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1: Kristy's Great Idea and The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #2: The Truth About Stacey,adapted by the #1 New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, Raina Telgemeier.
• Cynthia Lord, the Newbery Honor author of Rules, explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers in A Handful of Stars.
• The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig is a laugh-out-loud funny debut by Emer Stamp that will please boys, girls, pigs, vegetarian farmers, ducks-everyone save for evil chickens.
• Spencer Quinn, author of the New York Times bestselling adult mystery series 'Chet and Bernie,' has turned his canine canny to middle grade fiction. Bowser is a dog detective on the loose, paired with an eleven-year-old girl, Birdie. Told entirely from Bowser's hilarious dog point of view, Woof launches a brand-new, slightly slobbery but utterly winning detective duo.
• Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel is a sparkling debut fairy tale re-telling from new talent Megan Morrison.
CHAPTER BOOKS
• Neon Aliens Ate My Homework: And Other Poems by Nick Cannon, with art by Nick Cannon, Art Mobb, caliFAWNia, Captain Kris, MAST, Mike P, Morf, and Queen Andrea.
Just in time for National Poetry Month, Nick Cannon debuts his poetry book for children. Nick Cannon was inspired to write this book as a way to combine the worlds of poetry and hip-hop. These two mediums have shaped Nick into the prolific artist he is today. To further pay respect to the urban storytelling that inspired him, each funny, gross, wacky, or thought-provoking poem in this collection is illustrated by one of six incredible street artists who have shown his or her work around the world-plus four illustrations by Nick himself.
• WNBC-TV reporter Ida Siegal makes her debut as a chapter book author with the new series Emma is On the Air #1: Big News!, a hilarious look at one girl's journey into journalism, mystery-solving, and fame-or at least two out of those three!
• Join a once-in-a-lifetime race through the animal kingdom in Race the Wild #1: Rain Forest Relay andRace the Wild #2: Great Reef Games, a new series by Kristin Earhart.
• Never leave a bug behind in this new series by Jack Patton-Battle Bugs #1: The Lizard War, Battle Bugs #2: The Spider Siege, and Battle Bugs #3: The Poison Frog Assault.
INTRODUCING: DAVID FICKLING BOOKS
Scholastic is delighted to welcome UK imprint David Fickling Books to the Scholastic list, starting in Summer 2015. Here is a look at the launch list:
• The jam has been sucked out of Sam's doughnuts! Find out who the culprits are in Jampires, a delightful, whimsical, JAM-tastic picture book by Sarah McIntyre & David O'Connell.
• Close to the Wind is a simple, resonant and utterly heart-shattering debut middle grade novel by Jon Walter that confronts the realities of war in a timeless and accessible way.
• Dave Shelton tells a spine-tingling collection of ghost stories for teens in the thrilling Thirteen Chairs.
• The first book of a YA trilogy, Shadow of the Wolf is a breathtakingly original-and utterly compelling-retelling of the Robin Hood legend by debut novelist Tim Hall.
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