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What’s under the covers in August 2026

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By Mac Barnett, Isabelle Arsenault, Leslie McGuire
| City Parent Verified
What’s under the covers in August 2026 Just Because By: Mac Barnett & Illustrated by: Isabelle Arsenault Why is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? It might be bedtime, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep.
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Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy

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By Mac Barnett, Markus Motum, Jackie Khalilieh
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Mac Barnett, illus. by X. Fang. Tundra, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-7748-8571-0 There’s no woolgathering in this wickedly funny farm fable from Barnett (The Future Book) and Fang (Broken). Though sheep Tom Nancy poses as a barnyard charmer, he’s really a mad scientist whose side-eye suggests that some first-class fleecing is afoot.
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Kid Review: Rumpelstiltskin By Mac Barnett

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By Mac Barnett, Jan Farnworth
| YA Books Central Verified
About This Book: In the follow-up to the highly acclaimed, instant bestseller, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, comes the second ​brilliant and highly anticipated fairy tale retelling from the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Award-winning creators, Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis. Once upon a time there was a clever girl with a not-so-clever father. When her father claims she can spin straw into gold, the king forces the girl to perform this impossible task.
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