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These two entries in the new I Can Read!: ­Comics series show its audience range. Fish, for younger, ­almost-independent readers, features an aquatic protagonist with an all-too-familiar problem: “Mom, I’m bored.” Fish leaves the dark, cold depths of the sea and encounters Sun.

And gains Greystone Kids Inside in: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World by Jan Paul Schutten, illus. by Arie Van ‘t Riet, trans. by Laura Watkinson (Oct. 12, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-679-6), provides a look at creatures and their natural habitats using x-ray techniques and photographs. Ages 2–7. How Beautiful by Antonella Capetti, illus. by Melissa Castrillon (Nov. 2, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-853-0). A curious caterpillar searches for the true meaning of the word beautiful. Ages 4–8. Lit...