Publisher Preview: Nosy Crow (Fall/Winter 2025)

A whole new preview! I’m so excited! While I have included Nosy Crow in the past in small quantities in my Publisher Spotlight previews, today they’re getting the stage aaaaaall to themselves. And what better way to begin than with this incredible title?

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This Is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets by Traci N. Todd, ill. Jade Orlando

Publication Date: September 30, 2025

ISBN: 9798887772042

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Well, THAT’S badass!

The name Traci N. Todd raising some memories for you? That’s probably because she wrote that incredible picture book biography of Nina Simone, Nina, a couple years ago. Now she pairs with Jade Orlando to present this anthology of poetry, which features both new and classic voices from all over the world. And it’s not all old stuff! There are a few poems that will be published for the very first time, one of them being “Good Trouble” by Nikki Grimes about book bans. As such, consider this a perfect book for back-to-school time.

Secrets of the Snakestone by Piu Dasgupta

Publication Date: October 7, 2025

ISBN: 9798887771939

How’s that for a cover, eh? Pretty cool. So this book will be author Piu Dasgupta’s debut as a children’s book author. In this middle grade novel she draws from her life in Calcutta and her later move to Paris. As such, this is a book that speaks to the experience of living between worlds. In it, our heroine lives in Paris and doesn’t believe in magic until one day someone comes up from the sewers with her father’s missing locket. Think of it as kind of like Les Mis if fun things were happening in the catacombs instead of, uh, grave robbing.

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Mega: The Most Enormous Animals Ever by Jules Howard, ill. Gavin Scott

Publication Date: November 4, 2025

ISBN: 9798887772004

You know what kids like? Big things. Big animals in particular. The bigger the better. As such, this book is about the biggest animals all throughout time. It begins with the lost megafauna of the past and then moves up to their ancestors today. Best of all, clocking in at 128 pages and dimensions of 11.65″ x 11.80″, the book itself is mega in and of itself! That doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain lots of little bite-sized pieces of information, though. With each animal, it shows the biggest then and now and then gets into why these animals disappeared and what we can do to keep our current megafauna in the wild going. So, as you can see, it has an environmental spin to it… but also big old animals.

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There Are No Silly Questions by Mike Rampton, ill. Guilherme Karsten

Publication Date: October 14, 2025

ISBN: 9798887771960

Behold! More than 200 weird and wacky questions expertly answered in a book produced through the largesse of the University of Cambridge. What kinds of question? Stuff like: Why do we burp? Why do we have two nostrils but only one mouth (did you know that we only breath out of one nostril at a time and we switch off)? Which animal has the most bones? Which animal has the most teeth? The book alternates between science, history, animals, and humans. Would there still be people if dinosaurs didn’t exist? Find out here!

How to Find a Yeti by Matt Hunt

Publication Date: November 4, 2025

ISBN: 9798887772127

Now Matt Hunt is the fellow who illustrated the rather charming How to Count to One. In this book we follow a self-proclaimed yeti expert (readers can determine for themselves whether or not he should rightfully be deemed so). Kids hearing this may get the joke before the hunter does (in every spread there is a yeti hidden somewhere, but the kid can’t see it). Happily, the book contains lots of useful info on how best to find a yeti. Consider this a fun readaloud for large groups. Particularly those that enjoy yelling at the obtuse narrators.

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No Cheese, Please! by Nishani Reed, ill. Maria Neradova

Food sensitivity and allergies time! There aren’t a ton of picture books on the market that speak to this and, bonus, this book comes with a with a yummy dairy-free cake recipe. In this story, it’s Mo the mouse’s birthday and, to celebrate at his party, everyone brings the cheesiest possible treats. Fondu, chesse-tastic pie, etc. The problem? Mo is super stressed because he can’t eat any of that. When he does tell his friends they feel bad and leave… but then come back with a diary-free chocolate cake. A book to help spawn conversations about allergies and the people who have them.

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Moo! by Pui Lee

Publication Date: September 2, 2025

ISBN: 9798887771861

A board book! And isn’t that what Nosy Crow is kind of famous for? This is a what’s-that-noise book with sounds, flaps, and a mirror. It’s part of a new sound-based series and the two books they’re starting with are Moo and Meow. What makes this a little different? Well, before you lift the flap, you press the button for the noise and then lift the flap to guess what the animal is. How cool is that? Sound technology is just so darned sophisticated in board books these days. And this is cool, but when you hear a child giggle in one of the sounds, that’s from one of the production designer’s kids. And happily there are more planned for 2026.

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Make Tracks: Great Outdoors by Johnny Dyrander

Publication Date: October 21, 2025

ISBN: 9798887772110

Woohoo! An outdoorsy one! You probably know this series because of its cool sliders that you push around the different tracks. This the first part of the series that features vehicles that do not use fossil fuels. So there’s a hiker, a bike, a canoe, etc. all following the tracks. AND there are different questions about colors and numbers throughout. Cool, right?

Thanks so much to Avery Cook and the team at Nosy Crow for giving us all a peek at their upcoming season!

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