Out now: Ocean of Stars
Ocean of Stars may be the biggest, little story ever told..
Ocean of Stars
$19.99
Written by Azita Ardakani
Illustrated by Rebecca Rebouché
From Azita Ardakani and acclaimed artist Rebecca Rebouché comes a timeless story about how everything comes to be—and how, in the making of the world, we are made by both stardust and one another.
Before there was the world we know, there was only silence and shimmer—a great dark ocean of matter and possibility. Ocean of Stars follows the unfolding of creation: light forming from fire, water gathering from stars, and life arising from their meeting—until the living world begins to know itself through us.
Told in lyrical prose and brought to life through Rebecca Rebouché’s breathtaking illustrations, this picture book invites readers into a cosmic meditation on connection: how the stars became water, how water became life, and how all living things are threads in the same luminous web.
Part poem and part lullaby, Ocean of Stars offers children and adults alike a gentle way to contemplate existence—how every being, from the smallest seed to the farthest star, carries the memory of creation within. This is a story to be read aloud, wondered over, and kept close for a lifetime.
Ocean of Stars may be the biggest, little story ever told.
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ISBN: 978-1-59270-491-0
9 in (W) x 12 in (H) • 48 pages • Hardcover
Ages: 4-8
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
OUT SEPT 29, 2026! Please note that due to shipping costs, all the books included in the same order as Ocean of Stars will ship together in September.
OUT SEPT 29, 2026!
From Azita Ardakani and acclaimed artist Rebecca Rebouché comes a timeless story about how everything comes to be—and how, in the making of the world, we are made by both stardust and one another.
“Part poem and part lullaby, part compact history of science and part creation myth, radiating the revelatory simplicity of a children’s book and the causal complexity of a cosmogony.”—Maria Popova
Out now: I Forgot How to Sleep
A fun and thoroughly entertaining ode to bedtime books that still promises to leave the little ones heavy lidded and ready for sleep.
I Forgot How to Sleep
$17.99
Written & illustrated by Bruno Zocca
Translated from Italian by Debbie Bibo
A fun and thoroughly entertaining ode to bedtime books that still promises to leave the little ones heavy lidded and ready for sleep.
This delightful picture book starts with a very big—and very relatable—problem: No matter how hard she tries, our protagonist just can’t seem to fall asleep. Could she have skipped a step in her bedtime routine? Just in case, it’s best to do it all over again! So she brushes her teeth, puts on her pajamas, and says good night to Daddy.
But no luck—she still can’t get to sleep! So she ventures outside, where she meets a very sleepy bear who shares her same problem. To help him, she runs inside for a book to read him a bedtime story. In the blink of an eye, the bear is snoring away, and the girl suddenly gets it. That’s it! She forgot to have her dad read her a bedtime story.
And so, it’s back to the house, back to her dad, back to bed, and finally… to sleep! Children and parents alike will love this story that celebrates the magic of bedtime stories.
ISBN: 978-1-59270-483-5
190 mm (W) x 265 mm (H) • 48 pages • Hardcover with Jacket
Ages: 4-8
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
OUT MAY 19, 2026!
This delightful picture book starts with a very big—and very relatable—problem: No matter how hard she tries, our protagonist just can’t seem to fall asleep. Could she have skipped a step in her bedtime routine? Just in case, it’s best to do it all over again!
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The Italian edition of I Forgot How to Sleep was a notable title in the 2025White Ravens Selection and the 2025 IBBY Italia Choice
Out now: B Is For Bibliophile
This stylish ABC book about books and book-making is a wry, witty compendium, pervaded by a love of books.
B Is For Bibliophile
$19.99
Written by O.E. Zelmanovich
Illustrated by Lauren Simkin Berke
This stylish ABC book about books and book-making is a wry, witty compendium, pervaded by a love of books.
B is for bibliophile.
D is for dog-eared.
M is for marginalia.
V is for verso.
In these pages, book lovers of all ages are invited to tour through the ABCs of books, with cartoon protagonist Guy as their guide. Excitingly, the book also works to perform what it shares, giving us a gatefold to define gatefold, a die-cut to exemplify what a die-cut is, and so on.
Cleverly conceived and beautifully made, this book is both delightful and edifying—a sheer pleasure to hold in the hand and leaf through. This is a fully illustrated book about books that belongs on the shelves of book lovers both young and old.
ISBN: 978-1-59270-432-3
8” (W) x 8” (H) • 64 pages • Hardcover
Ages: 7-10
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
OUT MAY 12, 2026!
Cleverly conceived and beautifully made, this book is both delightful and edifying—a sheer pleasure to hold in the hand and leaf through. This is a fully illustrated book about books that belongs on the shelves of book lovers both young and old.
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“A book about books for book lovers of all ages. B Is For Bibliophile is the meta-abecedarium for all the current and future teachers, librarians, writers, and readers in your life.” —Brian Selznick, Caldecott-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Adventures of Cipollino is a 2026 Batchelder Honor Book!
The Batchelder Award recognizes the most outstanding books translated into English and published in the United States, and we’re thrilled that The Adventures of Cipollino was selected as an honor book. Congratulations to translator Antony Shugaar and illustrator Dasha Tolstikova!
Set in a land of fruit and vegetables, The Adventures of Cipollino explores themes of power, injustice, solidarity, and resistance, inviting readers young and old to think about how authority should be just and how ordinary people can stand up for fairness. These themes were of paramount importance when the great Italian children’s author Gianni Rodari first wrote this story in 1950s Italy, as the country was looking to rebuild after the horrors of Mussolini’s Fascism and World War II. And they remain especially relevant today, when freedom, dignity, creativity, empathy, critical thinking, and the moral imagination are just as important as ever.
Here’s to books in translation, and how they are able to, as the great translator Edith Grossman put it, “expand and deepen our world, our consciousness, in countless, indescribable ways!”