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2024

Midsouth (Kentucky/Tennessee)

Two parents, one me.
Are we still a family?
Living in two homes can be a big adjustment, but it can also present opportunities for growth. Jessica Young’s poignant story and Chelsea O’Byrne’s tender illustrations offer gentle reassurance to kids navigating separation or divorce and remind us that while families change, love is constant.

TWO HOMES, ONE HEART

Best friends Ruby, Iris, and Pip are on their way to a full moon party! In five dazzling stories, the fairy friends use their powers to create their own ride, play fun games to win prizes, and have a dance party! With easy-to-read text and charming full-color artwork throughout, this series is perfect for beginning readers!

Fairylight Friends Full Moon Party

Baby’s Here! is a sweet interactive board book with a unique shape that encourages toddlers and big siblings to be to cradle, rock, and play with the babies in the pages.Gift this board book to little ones who love babies or baby dolls, or are expecting a new baby sister or brother themselves! Toddlers will delight in the brief, rhyming text and invitations to interact with the cuddly babies in the pages. Sure to inspire repeat reads and independent play, this book will capture the imagination of baby-loving “big kids.”

Baby's Here!

When a child makes a wish, where does it go? Like a tiny seed carried on the wind, a wish journeys through adversity, takes root, and grows. When the time is right, it blooms and sends its seeds of hope into the world to be shared. A Wish is a Seed is a celebration of the power and potential of hope often hidden in small packages and unexpected places.

A Wish is a Seed

Join best friends Ruby, Iris, and Pip as they zoom around a winter wonderland! Across five magical stories, these fairy friends enjoy snowflake tea, help their neighbors stay warm, plant seeds, and make cozy fun out of chilly days. With easy-to-read text and charming full-color artwork throughout, this series is perfect for beginning readers!

Fairylight Friends — Time to Shine

Ruby, Iris, and Pip go to fairy school together. Ruby loves to make art, Iris loves to fly fast, and Pip loves to grow things. Now, each of them must discover their special fairy power. Fly along with these fairy friends on their magical adventures, as they bake a snazzy cake, zoom across the night sky, and plan a big surprise party. With easy-to-read text and full-color artwork throughout, this sparkly early reader series is perfect for beginning readers!

Fairylight Friends — A Magic Spark

This poetic and tender story celebrates the parent-and-child bond in its many forms and offers gentle assurance of love across a lifetime. Two parents' dreams of the future with their children—from early dependence for nourishment and basic needs, to the parent as home base for a child in later life—mirror an always-changing but unbreakable relationship. Written in lyrical rhyme and accompanied by breathtaking art by the incomparable Rafael López, I'll Meet You in Your Dreams affirms that parental love is a constant force, transcending boundaries of space and time.

I'll Meet You in Your Dreams

For fans of Press Here, this new interactive picture book line invites readers to touch and move and "play" with the book.Hello, friend! It's time to play! We're taking care of pets today. There are lots of ways little hands can care for animals. Each page of this book invites readers to pet the cat, wash the puppy, brush the horse's mane, and more--no animals required! With a delightful rhyming text and engaging illustrations, this book is full of pets who can't wait to play. The only thing they need is YOU! Just use your imagination, turn the pages, and Pet This Book!

Pet This Book

For fans of Press Here, this new interactive picture book line invites readers to touch and move and "play" with the book.To start our show we need a band--maybe you can lend a hand!There are lots of ways little hands can make music. Each page of this interactive book invites readers to strum the guitar, slide the trombone, crash the cymbals, and more--no instruments required! With a delightful rhyming text and engaging illustrations, this book is full of instruments waiting to share their sounds. The only thing this band needs is YOU! Just use your imagination, turn the pages, and Play This Book!

Play This Book

Haggis and Tank’s imaginations take them across the globe — to Scotland! They fly an airplane, get lost in a bog, visit a castle, and even play the bagpipes. Then they get chased by a  . . . werewolf?! How will they get home?

Haggis and Tank Unleashed — Howl at the Moon

It’s time for Finley’s class to vote on a service-learning project, and Finley has a Fin-tastic plan — a class garden! But after days of watering and waiting, Finley and her friends start to wonder if the seeds they planted will ever sprout.

Finley Flowers — Room to Bloom

When Finley’s next-door neighbor needs a last-minute pet sitter, it seems like the purr-fect opportunity for Finley to prove she’s ready for a pet. But she soon learns that taking care of a pet isn’t all cuteness and cuddles.

Finley Flowers — Pet-rified

Inspired by her sister Evie's favorite show, Finley decides to become a fashion designer. She creates Fin-tastic Fashions and starts making samples for her friends to model. The orders come pouring in, but just as the fad is taking off, Finley’s mom finds out that Finley has been using the family’s forks in the name of fashion.  Not wanting to disappoint her first fashion fans, Finley wracks her brain trying to come up with another necessary accessory. While eating lunch in the cafeteria, Finley is inspired to tweak her original concept, creating a new fashion fad with a mission.

Finley Flowers — Fin-tastic Fashion

The class Halloween party is just around the corner, and Finley can’t wait! There will be treats and dancing, and she’s come up with a super-spooktacular costume for the fourth grade  Halloween parade. But when a morning mix-up leaves Finley and her best friend Henry without their costumes, she has to think fast. Finley’s creative skills are put to the test as she tries to come up with new costumes in time for the parade.

Finley Flowers — Super Spooktacular

Haggis and Tank's big imaginations take them on a search for real live dinosaurs! They build a nest for dino eggs and play baseball with a triceratops. But then the ground starts shaking. Is a T-rex chasing Haggis and Tank? Or could something else be headed their way?

Haggis and Tank Unleashed — Digging for Dinos

Tank is a clumsy, outgoing Great Dane. Haggis is a dapper and grumpy 
Scottie dog. In the first book in the series, Haggis and Tank set sail 
as pirates. At first, Haggis doesn’t see what Tank does–that an 
adventure awaits them with just a little imagination! But soon, Haggis 
joins in the fun and the two friends go on a pirate adventure. They talk
 like pirates, swab the deck, and even search for buried treasure. This 
series is full of wordplay and homophones that make Haggis and Tank’s 
adventures even more fun!

Haggis and Tank Unleashed — All Paws on Deck

Finley can’t wait for the class field trip to the art museum. After all, she’s always painting and gluing and snazzifying and glitterizing. When Mr. Spark assigns a group project based on the question 'What is art?' Finley figures it’ll be a snap. But the more art she sees, the more mixed-up she gets, and her group can’t seem to agree on what to do. As Finley and her friends learn to work together, they discover the power of art and make their mark in a Fin-tastic way.

Finley Flowers — Art-Rageous!

Finley can’t wait to start the inventors project at school—after all, thinking up new ideas is her thing. But when the prototype of her Supersonic Sibling Sublimator fails and her older brother plays a joke on her, Finley discovers that everyone could stand to lighten up a bit. Starting over, she creates a hilarious device guaranteed to make people laugh more and live longer. But will her entertaining invention work on the super-serious invention judges?

Finley Flowers — New & Improved

Summer is here, and Finley is heading to Camp Acorn! She can’t wait to make crafts, eat s’mores, and prove that she’s tough enough to get back to nature. When nature calls and Finley and her cabinmate Olivia get lost on the way to the restrooms, Finley’s spooky ghost story comes back to haunt them. As they work together to find a creative way home, Finley discovers that there’s more than one way to be tough.

Finley Flowers — Nature Calls

Finley's best friend Henry is about to turn nine, and Finley has a major problem: she has no idea what to give him for his birthday. He already owns all of her best creations! The school cook-off might be the perfect solution. The grand prize is a year's worth of Flying Pie Pizza, Henry's favorite. But coming up with something original and tasty is harder than it looks. As one crazy concoction leads to another, Finley discovers that cooking is just like the rest of life—things don't always turn out as planned, and friendship is the real prize.

Finley Flowers — Original Recipe

Spy Guy is a spy—but not a very good one. He’s too loud, too squeaky, 
and in need of a good disguise. All Spy Guy wants is to figure out the 
secret to spying. But as the Chief says, that he must discover for himself. With a lot of trial and even more error, can Spy Guy figure out the secret to spying?   

Spy Guy The Not So Secret Agent

Follow one girl’s journey through her neighborhood as she explores what colors mean to different people. ls
red angry, like a dragon’s burning breath? Or brave like a fire truck and a superhero cape? ls pink pretty or annoying? What about black and orange and green?

ln her picture-book debut, author and art teacher Jessica Young challenges
common assumptions about colors and celebrates individual perspective.
Brazilian-born artist Catia Chien provides her own interpretation in this
ode to colors—and the unique ways we experience them.

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