Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Mythical Zoo
Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Sacred cows, wily serpents, fearsome lions, elegant swans, busy bees, and sly foxes--all are caricatures of the creatures themselves, yet they reflect not only how different cultures see the natural world around them but also how such cultures make use of their native animals. In this fun and thought-provoking...
by Jennifer Thermes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his first voyage. Though he was a scientist by profession, he was an explorer at heart. While journeying around South America for the first time aboard a ninety-foot-long ship named the Beagle, Charles collected insets, dug up bones, galloped with gauchos, encountered...
Like My Teacher Always Said...
Weighty Words, Crazy Wisdom, the Road to Detention, and Advice We Could Never Forget, Even If We Tried
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Erin McHugh’s last two books, Like My Mother Always Said . . . and Like My Father Always Said . . ., pulled together a rainbow of savvy, humorous, and questionable wisdom from parents. Her next volume leaves home and heads for the classroom to celebrate what we gleaned from perhaps the most obvious...
Lullaby and Kisses Sweet
Poems to Love with Your Baby
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Beloved children’s poet and anthologizer Lee Bennett Hopkins has produced more than 100 volumes of poetry throughout his illustrious career, but Lullaby and Kisses Sweet is his first collection geared toward babies and toddlers. Featuring 30 original poems by esteemed children’s writers like Jane...
by Nikki McClure
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Known for art that celebrates the virtues of community, hard work, and living gently on the planet, Nikki McClure here explores a topic close to her heart: the farmers market. Alternating between story and fact, this lovingly crafted picture book follows a mother and son to the weekly market. As they...
by Lillian Bassman, Eric Himmel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Through the 1950s and the early 1960s, working with that era’s supermodels, fashion photographer Lillian Bassman created the quintessential modern feminine image of women in their lingerie. As Ginia Bellafante put it in the New York Times recently, “In place of heavyset women constraining themselves...
by Michael Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
From Michael Buckley, the bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, and Dan Santat, author-illustrator of Sidekicks, comes this hilarious picture book starring Kel Gilligan (a.k.a. The Boy Without Fear”) that encourages kids to laugh at their fears and celebrates the bravery it...
by Lisa Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
A Hug Is for Holding Me is a sweet, cozy book about love and affection and invites children to engage with the natural world in a fresh, new way. Some hugs are tight and some hugs are snug . . . but guess who gives the BEST hugs?
Bach to the Rescue!!!
How a Rich Dude Who Couldn't Sleep Inspired the Greatest Music Ever
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Every famous piece of art has an origin story—even Bach’s Goldberg Variations! When the richest dude in town can’t sleep, he hires a much-less-rich dude named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to play him lullabies on the harpsichord. Goldberg does an OK job, but as the Rich Dude hollers for Goldberg...
by Todd Tuell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Follow this little ninja as he sneaks up on the family dog, swipes a cookie from his brother, and escapes from Granny’s kiss . . . only to be out-ninja’d by his younger brother’s sneak attack! Young readers will be drawn in by the fast-paced rhymes that parallel the little ninja’s quick moves,...
Hands & Hearts
With 15 Words in American Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A mother and daughter spend a sunny day at the beach together where they swim, dance, build sandcastles, and, most importantly, communicate. But their communication is not spoken; rather, it is created by loving hands that use American Sign Language.
Readers will learn how to sign 15 words using American...
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation.
Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen...
I Am Human
A Book of Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
I am human
I am a work in progress
Striving to be the best version of ME
From the picture book dream team behind I Am Yoga and I Am Peace comes the third book in their wellness series: I Am Human. A hopeful meditation on all the great (and challenging) parts of being human, I Am Human shows that...
Maritcha
A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This Coretta Scott King Honor Book provides a much-needed window into a little-documented time in black history. The poignant story, based on the memoir of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, shows what it was like to be a black child born free and living in New York City in the mid-1800s.