Farm Sustainable

Author Mia Wenjen blogs on parenting, education and children’s books at PragmaticMom.com and runs the nonprofit Multicultural Children’s Book Day. She lives in Boston, USA.

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NEW! MAY 2023 Food for the Future Sustainable Farms Around the World

Written by Mia Wenjen and illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng

AGES 3–8 | Go on a tour of eco-friendly farms around the globe! From urban gardens to farms under the sea, discover the many different sustainable ways people have been growing food for centuries, and new innovations that are battling the effects of climate change on farming. Rhyming text and inset boxes with definitions for new vocabulary words make the topic accessible to young learners. End matter includes detailed information about each country’s farming practice, sustainable farming and more.

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• Inset boxes provide definitions of new vocabulary words

• Features sustainable farming from 12 different countries

• Factual endnotes dive deeper into each farming practice

Artist Robert Sae-Heng spent his childhood on a tiny farm in Mexico. He now lives in London, UK, where he works with mixed media, combining handdrawn elements with a digital finish.

A kid’s-eye-view of modern Japanese culture

Interiors and illustrations from The Perfect Sushi

Features relationships with grandparents

NEW! APRIL 2023 The Perfect Sushi

AGES 4–9 | Miko likes things to be perfect. When she makes lopsided sushi for her grandmother’s birthday, she replaces it with perfectly formed sushi created by a restaurant robot. Upon delivering her gift, Miko discovers that kokoro (heart) — not impeccability — is the key ingredient to the perfect present. A do-it-yourself sushi recipe is included.

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Onomatopoeia makes for a fun read-aloud!

Emily Satoko Seo (Our World: Japan) is a Japanese Canadian chemist turned children’s book author. She lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two young children and enjoys making homemade sushi with her family.

Mique Moriuchi spent her most memorable childhood years in Japan. Mique currently works as a primary school librarian, children’s book illustrator and occasional lopsided sushi maker with her partner and their two children in Bedford, UK.

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The Bread Pet A Sourdough Story

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Dumpling Day

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The story invites readers to guess the answers to riddles based on rhymes and visual cues peeking through die-cuts.

Page turns reveal surprise answers that show how inventions mimic biology.

Illustration and design in progress

Benita and the Night Creatures

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The creatures are comically unable to scare the protagonist, who is deeply absorbed in her book.

This celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the “scary” out of monsters, as a girl rebuffs various scary creatures.

Featuring creatures from Peruvian lore. Written by a Peruvian-born author

Mariana Llanos (Run, Little Chaski!) and illustrating team, Cocoretto.

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My Cousin’s Mermaid A Story from Poland

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Written by Kate DePalma and illustrated by Sophie Fatus AGES 4–10 | Transports readers to 13 different countries and cultures where they can learn about Christmas through lyrical, rhyming text. Play cricket on the beach in Australia, enjoy Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood, rise before dawn for Mass in the Philippines and more. Includes educational notes at the end.

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