Megan Wagner Lloyd. Candlewick, $17.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1657-8
An indoor cat with an urgent mission and an adventure-loving wild fox team up in this full-hearted, earnestly voiced quest. Finding the home of elderly Ma Millie as a kitten was “Haven’s rescue from loneliness, fear, and the cold, unfriendly forest,”
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Megan Wagner Lloyd, illus. by Abigail Halpin. Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-101-93281-0
Lloyd’s sparkling debut celebrates nature through a whimsical meditation on the idea of wildness. After entering a verdant city park, a boy and girl become immersed in the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of their surroundings, which spring to life...
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Megan Wagner Lloyd, illus. by Phoebe Wahl. Simon & Schuster/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8166-3
“With a snip and a clip,/ and a clip and a snip” an elderly woman and a girl craft two paper mice from a security-lined envelope and a sheet of white paper. The mice, christened Ralph and Della, are “placed between the pages/ of two books, pressed...
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Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter. Graphix, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-338-56890-5
This sincere graphic novel follows 10-year-old Maggie Wilson, who, hoping to adopt a puppy on a birthday visit to an animal shelter, instead learns that she’s highly allergic to any animal with fur or feathers. The discovery compounds existing...
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Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter. Graphix, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-338-56893-6
Lloyd and Nutter (Allergic) reteam in this energetic graphic novel, a meditation on adolescence and the strengths and challenges that large families can engender. Eleven-year-old artist Avery Lee is the second oldest child in a boisterous Korean...
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Megan Wagner Lloyd, illus. by Michelle Mee Nutter. Graphix, $24.99 hardcover (272p) ISBN 978-1-338-81853-6; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-338-81852-9
Luna barely remembers her mother, who died when the middle schooler was a baby. All she has left of her mom is pictures, as well as the memories shared by her loved ones, especially Luna’s single, hardworking father. Luna’s world is turned upside...
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Megan Wagner Lloyd, illus. by Abhi Alwar. Knopf, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-37847-2
An anthropomorphic pancake becomes a superhero in this madcap graphic novel series opener. Peggy Pancake feels as if she’s living in her brother Patrick’s shadow: she frequently oversleeps and misses the bus to Winifred Waffle Elementary School,...
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