What’s New on Epic for June!

It’s a hot summer day and Lily and Milo decide to go to the beach. They see fun things, eat ice cream, build a sandcastle, hunt for seashells and enjoy everything the beach has to offer. 

Your kid will love this cute, simple story about summer from a little one’s point of view. 

This picture book celebrates the timeless game of playing pretend. It starts when a brother and sister invite their friends to play “good guys and bad guys” with them. Things get a bit rowdy when the kids dress up in costumes and create a world of mischief—the bad guys stir things up and the good guys save the day. 

This book is a great way to show kids how to safely try out personas, both good and bad, through play.

This isn’t your average bedtime book! Join a zany group of froggies as they hop, have burping contests, play accordion, perform underwater ballet and do just about anything but go to bed. Your little one will love the hilarious illustrations as the antics get more and more outrageous. 

For any parent whose kids come up with wild excuses to avoid bedtime, this is an over-the-top fun way to get ‘em willingly off to snooze-town.

This uplifting, vibrantly illustrated picture book is a New York Times bestseller. Filled with beautiful, hand-lettered typography, it delivers words of encouragement and inspiration, showing kids that tomorrow they can always try new things and do their best. 

Whether it’s being adventurous, or curious, or creative, it let’s readers know that each new day is filled with new opportunities, if they choose to be brave.

Many of us remember the cult-classic Pixies’ song “Where is My Mind.” Read and revel in this reimagining of the lyrics in this story of a girl who literally loses her mind when she falls off her skateboard. 

What follows is a whimsical adventure as the girl searches for her lost mind. This book is so fun you’ll find yourself doing a sing-along as well as a read-along.

Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but in this silly, imaginative series, they can still enjoy all sorts of adventures together. 

In this book, it’s garbage day and the duo is looking for buried treasure. While they’re at it, they run into a poisonous swamp (maybe just a trash can), a tsunami (a garbage truck driving through a puddle?) and a dragon! When the “tsunami” causes their treasure map to fly away, they think it’s all over. Will they find the treasure? 

This dual-language book is not only filled with playful fun, it’s a great way to build English and French vocabulary.

Meet Burt the June beetle. He may not be able to carry 50-times his weight like, say, an ant. Maybe he can’t release a bad smell like a stink bug. But he can chase porch lights. Does that count as a bug superpower? Maybe not, but when other types of bugs get into trouble that even their superpowers can’t get them out of, Burt is there to save the day. 

This silly book is filled with humor, adorable comic-book style illustrations and even some fun insect facts.

This unique alphabet book gives kids a hilarious take on their ABCs through… eyes! Not just a primer on foundational language basics, every page includes animal facts and a fun idiom that plays on the word “eye.”  

When 8-year old Meg gets a special ring as a birthday gift, she wakes up the next morning with superpowers! Like running the fastest in gym class and leaping over treetops. Her magic ring turns her life upside down, but at the same time, strange things start happening in her town, and it’s up to Meg to master her powers so she can keep everyone safe. 

This fun rhyming book takes kids on a ride through the full lifecycle of a popular snack… popcorn! It starts when a group of kids plant the seeds. Then they care for the plant and like magic, it sprouts. Next they harvest and shuck until they finally get to pop the kernels. This educational read also includes scientific facts at the end with activities related to the process of creating popcorn.

Welcome to Camp Avalon, also known to campers as Camp Average. In the final book of the series, Mack and Andre, who normally spend the summer at Camp Avalon, are at the rival Camp Killington. While they’re being bullied by their fellow campers, their friend Miles is at Camp Average trying to keep the peace and get Mack and Andre back on their home turf. 

This entertaining book (and series) is great for teaching kids about friendship, teamwork and cooperation.

Resentful over having to spend the summer halfway around the world in the Tasmanian rainforest, middle-school violinist Louisa makes some intriguing discoveries. The story follows Louisa as she encounters big-footed bandicoots, scary spiders, weird noises in the night, and… Convict Rock. 

Convict Rock, she learns, is a sanctuary for the last remaining Tasmanian tiger and huge marsupials hunted into extinction almost a century ago. Now the sanctuary is under threat and she must earn the tigers’ trust to lure it into safety with her violin.

A huge storm threatens to destroy 12-year old Darby’s strawberry farm. 

Darby, who has Down syndrome, loves music, chocolate and her big sister Kaydee. She can’t wait for her family’s annual chocolate hunt so she can enjoy them all! But when the weekend arrives, frustrations get in the way of her fun and worse, the farm gets hit by a tornado. The family is prepared for the tornado, but what they’re not prepared for is the storm of emotions that surface.