December 2024: This month in the collection

New feature! I am planning to run this monthly, more or less, as a round-up of reviews and books I've read. This is pretty short as I don't purchase much in December, but I do go through a lot of my review books cleaning out backlog at the end of the year.

Library Pinterest - new materials
*purchased for or added to the library collection

**not yet purchased, but it's on a list!

Board Books

• **Play games with me by Kat Chen

Picture Books

• *Bounce! by Sarah Albee
• Elementary read-aloud
• *Brandon and the totally troublesome time machine by Seth Fishman
• Elementary read-aloud.
• **Brave Miss Muffet by Dori Graham
• Storytime pick!
• *Down the hole by Scott Slater
• Elementary read-aloud.
• *Dot! Scribble! Go! by Herve Tullet
• Storytime pick!
• *How to catch a groundhog by Alice Walstead
• Popular pick (two copies)
• *A little like magic by Sarah Kurpiel
• Storytime pick!
• *The oboe goes boom! boom! boom! by Colleen af Venable
• Replacement. Elementary read-aloud
• **There are no ants in this book by Rosemary Mosco
• Elementary read-aloud.
• *This is how we play by Jessica Slice
• Storytime pick!
• *Winter magic by Robert Burleigh
• Popular pick
• *You are not sleepy by Mark Teague
• Storytime pick!

Early Readers and Transitional Chapters

• **Lone wolf goes to school and Lone wolf gets a pet by Kiah Thomas
• Personal favorite!

Beginning Chapter Books

• **Bitsy & Boozle tell a story by Sara Goetter and Natalie Riess
• Graphic novel
• **Detective Beans and the case of the missing hat by Li Chen
• Graphic novel
• **Seashell Key by Lourdes Heuer
• New series
• *Willie's clutch catch and the Big bling blitz by David Kelly
• These are one of the few books I purchase from Amazon as they are not available through Baker and Taylor. Kelly did a virtual visit with third graders at one of our school and while his books were already popular that solidified him as a must-have for my library.

Juvenile Fiction

• *Bite risk by S. J. Wills
• Best for middle school.
• *Diary of a wimpy kid: Hot mess
• Popular pick - 3 copies, Pawprints prebound (I bought one copy in regular hardcover when it was originally released)
• *Maid for it by Jamie Sumner

Juvenile Nonfiction

• *Become a chess champion by James Canty
• Popular pick - chess is very big for us right now, especially in middle school.
• *Dragon atlas by Anna Claybourne
• Popular pick
• *Spirit Sleuths by Gail Jarrow
• **Virus Hunters by Amy Cherrix

Other

• *A lot of silly by Joy Cowley
• Storytime pick!
• *Tinkering workshop by Ryan Jenkins
• Purchased for juvenile nonfiction, but will use professionally for an outreach project I'm planning.
• Minecraft unofficial gamer guide by Zelda Wagner from Lerner
• 5 titles in this set - purchased in paperback, mostly from Amazon b/c of issues with Baker & Taylor. They're technically nonfiction, but they are cataloged in my JPOP section.