Spring 2025 Frontlist Scanbook

CHILDREN'S: Fiction Picture Books

9781797235035 Chronicle Chroma $18.99 • April 2025

BEATRIX BUTTERFLY WINGS IT FOR ONCE BY MAREN MORRIS AND KARINA ARGOW, ILLUSTRATED BY KELLY ANNE DALTON Acclaimed singer-songwriter Maren Morris and former schoolteacher Karina Argow, authors of the New York Times bestseller Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure , return to the garden with a delightful new picture book adventure! Beatrix Butterfly wakes up on the wrong side of the watermelon bed, starting her day not at all as planned. Feeling behind schedule and overwhelmed by her mile-long to-do list, she sinks back into bed covered by her cozy zinnia-petal duvet. MAYMOONA'S MOON A Special Eid Story BY RAZEENA OMAR GUTTA, ILLUSTRATED BY ZAYNEB HALEEM Maymoona's Moon is a heartwarming picture book about the end of Ramadan, and waiting for Eid to begin. Readers aged 3 to 8 years will feel the anticipation around the end of Ramadan – the hullabaloo is contagious! In this gorgeous story about anticipation, celebration and tradition, a young girl called Maymoona – self-proclaimed future astronaut – cleverly finds a way to be the first to see the crescent moon in the sky. AFLOAT BY KIRLI SAUNDERS, ILLUSTRATED BY FREYA BLACKWOOD A powerful picture book story for our time of climate crisis interwoven with Indigenous wisdom. From multi-award- winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat . Against a backdrop of a changed environment, an Elder leads a child along the waterways, sharing her People’s knowledge and gathering community along the way. This uplifting and inspiring picture book uses the practice of weaving as a powerful metaphor for First Nations wisdom. PILGRIM CODEX BY VIVIAN MANSOUR, TRANSLATED BY CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ CORTEZ, ILLUSTRATED BY EMMANUEL VALTIERRA For fans of Duncan Tonatiuh and Yuyi Morales' Dreamers , a one-of-a-kind picture book about one immigrant family's journey north, illustrated in the vein of an ancient codex and drawing upon Mesoamerican mythology. We, the Vargas Ramírez family, come from a faraway place north of Tenochtitlan called Iztapalapa, Land of Clay Upon Water. A land surrounded by cars and dry grass; a place where the pieces of our small world were scattered.

Hardcover 40 Pages 11 in H | 9 in W Ages 3 to 8, Grades P to 3 Juvenile Fiction

9781761211898 Bright Light $18.99 • February 2025

Hardcover 32 Pages 10.8 in H | 8.9 in W Ages 3 to 8

Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations / Other, Religious

9781646145072 Levine Querido $18.99 • March 2025

Hardcover 32 Pages 10 in H | 8 in W

Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3 Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational

9781646145157 Levine Querido $18.99 • February 2025 Hardcover 48 Pages 9.5 in H | 6.5 in W Ages 3 to 8 Juvenile Fiction / Places / Mexico

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