New Epic Books This Month

In this latest installment in the enormously popular Construction Site series, the team is back and building a brand-new superhighway. Alongside a crew of new rough-and-tough road-building machines, they’re all hard at work rolling, building, paving and more to make a road that will get everyone home safe in time for bed. 

Loved by pre-readers and early readers everywhere, this playful rhyming book is a fun one to read out loud to your little one at bedtime. Plus it instills values like teamwork and introduces kids to real-world skills.

You can also find the first book in this series, “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site on Epic.”

Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? A family frantically tries to finish the chores… but the cat keeps scrambling the list in order to avoid a bath! So instead of feeding the fish and mowing the lawn, they’re busy rocking the rug and mopping the baby. Silly rhyming word scrambles and hilarious illustrations make this perfect for an engaging and freshly funny read-aloud.

Yoomi the cat yet is ready for a perfect Sunday. It’s off to a rocky start, though, when the shirt she wants to wear is in the laundry and there’s no seaweed for her kimbap breakfast. So after opting for a different shirt and breakfast, Yoomi and Daddy take a bus to Koreatown. There they read Korean books, eat Korean treats and visit Grandma. In the end, she discovers that even though things don’t always go her way, an imperfect day can be even better than what she had imagined. This sweet story celebrates family and Korean culture, and includes a recipe for kimbap. 

If your kid loves this book, they might also like another of Yoomi’s adventures, “No Kimchi for Me!”

Treat your tot to some super-rad vocab fun with this 90s-themed digital board book. You can enjoy some 90s nostalgia at the same time with terms that celebrate the music, tv shows, toys and fashions from this iconic decade. Featuring 100 super-fly words and phrases, this is more than just your average first-words book. It’s a cultural primer.  

Friends Isaac, who is Jewish, and Teresa, who is Christian, have been looking forward to the holiday season for months. Even though their families and interests are different, they can’t wait to enjoy many of the same festive winter activities. Like playing in the snow to making cookies! But when Isaac’s window is smashed in the middle of the night it becomes clear that not everyone is able to appreciate one another’s differences. Inspired by a true story, this uplifting book follows these young kids as they help their community stand up to injustice and spread light.

In this installment in the heartwarming, humorous and empowering Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS series, Sophie loves visiting her friend Mia and playing with her dollhouse. She especially loves the tiny toy dog, Emma, who lives there.

One day Sophie decides not to put Emma back when it’s time for her to go home. But back at her own house, Emma looks out of place. After struggling with her conscience over the “dognapping” and asking for advice from the Sunshine Squad, Sophie decides to tell the truth, learning that doing the right thing can feel even better than getting a new toy.

If your kid enjoys this book, they might also like “Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS: The Sunshine Squad.”

This bright, beautifully illustrated rhyming picture book teaches kids about perseverance, kindness, courage and self-discovery through situations any kid can identify with. It shows them all the important ways that actions, choices and words can shape who they are, empowering them to be the authors of their own stories.

Kids and adults alike will get a huge kick out of this hilarious graphic novel featuring undercover unicorn, Special Agent Bubble07. On a mission to decide whether his fellow unicorns should invade Earth, he poses as a stuffed toy and infiltrates the home of Earthling Daughter. Told in diary format, Bubble07 relates back to his unicorn leader all sorts of dangers, from dog slobber to tea parties. Will he blow his cover? Or will Earthling Daughter win him over with snuggles?

Fans of the beloved Sesame Street TV series will love this  heartwarming book about sharing.  

When Cookie Monster bakes cookies to share with Elmo, he finds he wants them all for himself. How will he resist? This adorable story will show your kid that while sharing can be hard, it makes everyone happy, especially with friends. It even includes a special monster cookie recipe in the back!

This lyrical, artfully illustrated book follows the life of the legendary guitarist and rock icon, Jimi Hendrix. From tough beginnings and a turbulent childhood through his famous Woodstock appearances, it captures all the richness of his story. Written as a series of verses, from intro to outro, it will take both you and your child on an entertaining ride of rhythm and rhyme.  

The second in the graphic novel adaptation of Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior series is here! 

Runt and his crew are back and ready to embark on a quest to defeat the ender dragon. But if taking down this legendary boss monster weren’t enough, another mysterious enemy lurks just around the corner. This book is perfect for reluctant readers and Minecraft fanatics.

Your kid can find even more action-packed pixelated adventures set in the Minecraft Universe on Epic.

After discovering Bob, a grumpy, talking popcorn kernel in the first book in this hilarious series, Ellis and Bob have now become best friends!

Since Ella’s school has become a “healthy school” and banned many of the best snacks, Ella and Bob start secretly handing out popcorn to Ellis’s classmates. Everything would be going great, but visitors from the possibly nefarious Popcorn & Co. are following them, and Bob might be in danger. Will Ellis be able to protect her pal?

To explore the beginning of this unlikely friendship, check out the first book: “Popcorn Bob.”

This captivating chapter book takes young readers on a journey through the stars, to the very heart of what it means to be human. 

A girl named Petra Peña longs to be a cuentista (storyteller) like her abuelita, but there’s no time. Earth has been destroyed and only a few hundred scientists and their children have been selected to travel to a new planet and carry on the human race.

Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes up to discover a malevolent Collective has taken over, and is determined to erase the sins of humanity’s past by systematically purging the memories from everyone left. Petra is the only one who remembers Earth, and now alone must carry the stories of our past into the future.