Author-illustrator of GIRAFFE IS TOO TALL FOR THIS BOOK and the forthcoming HAVE YOU SEEN MY ACORN and THE DANGEROUS ALPHABET BOOK DK Ryland’s GIRAFFE’S BOOK IS MISSING A STORY, a sequel to the first Giraffe book, an interactive book that revisits a group of animal friends as they ask for the reader’s help in bringing a story to life on the book’s blank pages, to William Kiester at Page Street Kids, in an exclusive submission, for publication in winter 2025, by Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).

Author of BRAINSTORM! and WHATEVER COMES TOMORROW Rebecca Gardyn Levington’s FINDING FORGIVENESS: A ROSH HASHANAH STORY, set during the Jewish New Year’s Tashlich ceremony, about two sisters learning how to forgive each other and themselves after a terrible argument, illustrated by Diana Mayo, to Joy Peskin at Farrar, Straus Children’s, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary Agency for the author, and by Christine Isteed at Artist Partners for the illustrator (world).

International speaker and allergy mental health expert Tamara Hubbard, LCPC’s FINDING BALANCE: NAVIGATING THE OVERWHELM OF ALLERGY PARENTING, offering evidence-based guidance for parents of children with allergic diseases, including food allergy and asthma, to help them mindfully balance the anxiety, stress, and emotional triggers often experienced with allergy parenting, to Suzanne Staszak-Silva at Johns Hopkins University Press, in a nice deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world English)