FOX AND CHICK book 1: THE PARTY
by Sergio Ruzzier
Chronicle, April 17

An early reader in comic form! Fox and Chick don't always agree. But Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these two seemingly opposite friends. The luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, while the spare text and airiness of the images make this early chapter book accessible to a picture book audience as well.

ROAD TRIP WITH MAX & HIS MOM
by Linda Urban
​HMH, April 17

In this sweet and funny companion to Weekends with Max and His Dad by acclaimed author Linda Urban, Max and his mom embark on a road trip as they adjust to their new understanding of family. Third-grader Max is heading off on a road trip with Mom. With miles to travel, cousins to meet, and a tall roller coaster to ride (maybe), it will be an adventure! But Max always spends weekends with Dad; will Dad be okay if he’s left behind? And will Max be brave enough for all the new explorations ahead of him?

BACKYARD FAIRIES 
by Phoebe Wahl
Knopf/PRH, 3/6

Fairies are real, and they're all around us! Award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl offers a fanciful and beautifully illustrated peek into the hidden world of fairies, sprites, and other magical creatures. A girl searches for fairies in her backyard and the woods beyond, following little clues and traces of magic. Fairies and other magical creatures can be found on every page, hidden among the flowers, trees and pebbles. But although readers can see them, the girl keeps searching, just one step behind... In the end, it is clear (both to the girl and readers) that there is magic all around, even when it's hidden in plain sight.

A POSSIBILITY OF WHALES
by Karen Rivers
Algonquin Young Readers, 3/13

A ROUND OF ROBINS
by Katie Hesterman,
illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
Nancy Paulsen Books/PRH, 3/27

Sixteen fresh and funny poems welcome a new batch of robins to the world! Mama's a skillful architect, constructing a sturdy nest, while Dad's a champion turf defender. And those hatchlings! Such fluffs of plump perfection! Katie Hesterman's vibrant verse celebrates this awesome circle of bird life, as we follow a pair of robin parents from nest-building and egg-laying, to raising their hungry hatchlings, and finally sending off their flying fledglings. Sergio Ruzzier's brilliant, candy-colored art pays tribute to all these stages of a robin's life cycle, reminding us that while robins may be common, they are also extraordinary!

GwC #3: LIGHTS, MUSIC, CODE! 
by Jo Whittemore
Penguin Workshop/PRH, 3/13

FABLES YOU SHOULDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO by Heide & Van Clief, illus by Sergio Ruzzier
July 25, S+S/Atheneum

In this new edition of the classic, Sergio Ruzzier lends his signature humor to Florence Parry Heide and Sylvia Worth Van Clief's delectably subversive fables. Genevieve is careless. Muriel is discontented. Phoebe is always putting off until tomorrow what she should be doing today. And Chester is the laziest turkey you ever heard of. Caleb and Conrad, on the other hand, are polite and kind and thoughtful and gracious and truthful. But some good that does them! If the morals you find in these pages aren't exactly, well, moral...just don't pay any attention to them!

THE ROAD THAT TRUCKS BUILT 
by Susanna Leonard Hill,
illus by Erica Sirotich
July 25, S+S/LittleSimon

Join the ride as a team of adorable vehicles work together to build a new road in this fresh, cement-mixing spin on the classic nursery rhyme, "The House That Jack Built." This is the traffic that's moving too slow. Cars and buses have nowhere to go. What is the answer? I'm guessing you know. The trucks need to build a new road! Bulldozers, scrapers, graders, and more are hard at work making sure that every car, truck, and motorcycle can get where they're going fast! With smooth writing by Susanna Leonard Hill and heavy-duty illustrations by Erica Sirotich, The Road That Trucks Built shows the importance and effectiveness of teamwork in a picture book that's perfect for on the road readers.

YA - LOIS LANE: TRIPLE THREAT
by Gwenda Bond
5/1/17 - Switch Press/DC

She's cracked down on a mind-melding gang of bullies and saved the ex-mayor of Metropolis from the double who framed him. But now, Lois Lane embarks on a case even she isn't sure she can solve . . .

PB - AND THE ROBOT WENT....
by Michelle Robinson,
illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
​5/2/17 - Clarion/HMH

Starting with a box of parts, the Nosy Fox, the Bear in a Blazer, the Blue Gnu, and other remarkable builders assemble the Robot, step by step. Each stage of the process has its own sound effect, and the growing list of sounds is repeated in every spread. Young children will happily Click, Clang, andTappa Tappa along and relish the surprise ending of this winsome cumulative tale.

SUPERNORMAL SLEUTHING SERVICE Book 1: THE LOST LEGACY
by C. Rowe and G. Bond
​5/2/17- Greenwillow/HC

CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS Book 6
VANESSA'S DESIGN DILEMMA
by Jo Whittemore
5/2/17 - HarperChildren's

Three kids. A hotel full of monsters. And a stolen magical artifact that could disrupt the balance between the humans and the supernatural. Welcome to life at Hotel Monster! 'Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library' meets 'Hotel Transylvania' in the first book of this hilarious and spooky new series that blends mystery with monsters.

FAIREST OF THEM ALL
by Sarah Darer Littman
​5/9/17 - S+S

Aria Thibault--Sleeping Beauty's daughter--finds herself plagued by a curse of her own during a big design competition, and she must rely on ancient advice and help from her mother in order to break the spell in this spellbinding follow-up to 'Charmed, I'm Sure.'

In the sixth installment of the series that readers of 'The Cupcake Diaries' and 'The Baby-Sitters Club' will love, advice columnist and resident fashionista Vanessa Jacobs must avert a major disaster in order to save the school newspaper and her fashion show.

PIXIE PIPER AND THE MATTER OF THE BATTER by Annabelle Fisher
5/30/17 - Greenwillow/HC

In this sequel to The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper, Pixie Piper—who is a direct descendent of Mother Goose—and her adorable gosling, Destiny, head to Chuckling Goose Farm, where she bakes magical wishing cakes, makes new friends, and defends the farm from the evil Sinister Sisters.