Kate Hoefler, illus. by Jessixa Bagley. Chronicle, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-79720-276-1
Mae and Bear don’t know each other, but they’re on the same multi-species train, and they share trepidation about their respective solo journeys. Pink-skinned child Mae is afraid that the train travels “deep into bear places”—the backwoods. Bear...
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Kate Hoefler, illus. by Corinna Luyken. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-77478-0
She’s a girl with long straight hair; he’s a boy with a quiff. Luyken (My Heart) draws the two with simple, wistful lines. Their apartment windows face each other, but “they had nothing in common, so they never waved,” Hoefler (Rabbit and the...
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Kate Hoefler, illus. by Corinna Luyken. Knopf, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-37283-8
Via a perspective-oriented picture book that’s printed to flip vertically, the creators delicately explore a community divided. On upper pages, Hoefler’s conversational text introduces a woods, and figures within, as they’re seen by members of an...
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Kate Hoefler, illus. by Jonathan Bean. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-14892-5
Writing in prose with the lilt and plainspoken poetry of a classic cowboy song, debut author Hoefler makes a winning case that those who are home on the range are self-aware, empathic, conscientious, “as many different colors as the earth,” and...
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Kate Hoefler, illus. by Sarah Jacoby. Chronicle, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4521-7090-9
Timid Rabbit sticks close to home, where his friend Dog regales him daily with tales of his motorbike adventures as a young dog, including “the places he’d felt most alive, where he’d howled at the moon.” In textural watercolor and mixed-media...
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