Dream Teams
The #1 title on our picture book list, Hansel and Gretel, is Stephen King’s adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale, built around costume and set designs that Maurice Sendak produced for a Humperdinck opera. It’s “splendidly chilling,” per our starred review. Troubling Tonsils! which also received a starred review, is #2 on our children’s fiction list. It reunites Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown for a chapter book spin-off of the picture book series they began with 2012’s Creepy Carrots!
Cooking the Books
Self-taught home baker Sally McKenney launched her Sally’s Baking Addiction blog in 2011 and has since amassed an Instagram fan base one million followers strong. Her new recipe collection and her first with Clarkson Potter, Sally’s Baking 101, takes the #3 spot on our hardcover nonfiction list. After a thorough run-through of the basics, she covers cookies, brownies and bars, cakes and pies, quick breads and yeast breads, and more. The result, per our starred review, “is a delicious, confidence-boosting collection that home bakers will return to time and again.”
In Clubland
Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, the Read with Jenna pick for September, lands at #5 on our hardcover fiction list. “The author’s vision of small-town life is as timeless as Sherwood Anderson’s or Thornton Wilder’s, and is enriched by his complex and morally conflicted characters,” according to our starred review. “Filled with wit and emotion on every page, this is a stirring paean to the joys and sorrows of family.” Ryan, the editor-in-chief of One Story, is the author of three YA novels, as well as two works of adult fiction, Send Me and The Dream Life of Astronauts.
Girl Power
Sara Cate launches her Salacious Legacy series with The Good Girl Effect, #3 on our trade paperback list. It’s a spin-off of her six-book Salacious Players Club series, which has sold 706K print copies.
