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Weve gathered a selection of festive new titles for readers of all ages and backgrounds—from spiritual tales to seasonal poems and much more.

Your wish list to Santa is a little different this year. What you want can’t always be wrapped.

(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...

Florida State University News 2020 Florida Book Awards winners announced April 19, 2021 | 4:02 pm | SHARE: With its 14th annual competition now complete, the Florida Book Awards has announced winners for books published in 2020. More than 100 eligible publications were submitted across the 11 categories of competition. Coordinated by Florida State University Libraries, the Florida Book Awards is the nation’s most comprehensive state book awards program. It was established in 2006 to celebr...

New deals for Lois Lowry, Chloe Gong, Mason Deaver, and others.

By Shannon Maughan | When Walker Books U.S. publishes Ferryman by Claire McFall—the first in a romantic YA fantasy trilogy reimagining the Charon myth—in October, it will mark the latest stop in the book’s unusual journey. Ferryman was originally published in the U.K. in 2013 by Templar Books, where it had been acquired by editor Helen Boyle. McFall’s debut novel won that year’s Scottish Children’s Book Award in the Older Readers category and was shortlisted for the Car...

I absolutely love the woods. I grew up in a home surrounded by huge evergreens, and their roots burrowed into me at a young age. And while I found refuge in the trees as a child, I also developed a healthy respect for them—I always had a sense there was more to the woods than the dense branches and swaying treetops and wild ferns. There’s something about the way the woods teeter on the edge of peaceful and eerie that I can’t get enough of. The way a lovely afternoon stroll can turn frigh...

JonArno Lawson, illus. by Qin Leng. Candlewick, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0147-5. Ages 3–7. A lonely girl and her grandparent need to fill the rundown apartment in their building. But taking over the quarters above their store will mean major renovations for the new occupants, and none of the potential renters can envision the possibilities of the space—until one special couple shows up. The book received a starred review from PW. Ray Anthony Shepard, illus. by Keith Mallett. Farrar, St...