Hitting The Shelves: July 2025
last updated 01 July 2025
If you’re on the lookout for new books to add to your summer reading list – you’re in luck! This July, we have a fantastic selection of brilliant, funny, insightful and joyful books hitting the shelves.
Titles that are available as physical copies in the US are linked to Bright’s Bookshop.org page. If interested in purchasing any of the titles in this list, click here. Each purchase helps support independent bookstores.
Ribbit
Artist: Fred Blunt
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Fred Blunt
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Available July 1st
Wednesday is for Wiggling
Artist: Holly Sterling
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Eva Wong Nava
Publisher: Walker Books
Available July 1st
The Gift of the Broken Cup
Artist: Jade Orlando
Agent: Anne Moore Armstrong
Author: Allan Wolf
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Available July 1st
Steve and Maggie: Spooky Halloween Party
Artist: Sr. Sanchez
Author: Steve & Maggie
Publisher: Walker Books
Available July 1st
Call Your Boyfriend
Artist: Sarah Long
Author: Olivia A. Cole
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Available July 1st
The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster: The Frenemies
Artist: Hannah McCaffery
Author: Jenny Valentine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's
Available July 3rd
Poison Tides
Artist: Matthew Taylor Wilson
Author: Jay McGuiness
Publisher: Scholastic Children's
Available July 3rd
Supersized Squirrel: Attack of the Zombears
Artist: Luke Seguin-Magee
Author: Luke Seguin-Magee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Available July 3rd
Bizzy Bear: Swimming Fun
Artist: Benji Davies
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Benji Davies
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Available July 3rd
How to Train Your Teacher
Artist: Sophie Kent
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Bethany Walker
Publisher: Scholastic Children's
Available July 3rd
Every Botty Burps
Artist: Alex Patrick
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Becky Wilson
Publisher: Little Tiger
Available July 3rd
Torla and Smorla and The Deeper than Average Hole
Artist: Chris Jevons
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Happy Yak
Available July 3rd
Five Little Friends: A Collection of Finger Rhymes
Artist: Fiona Woodcock
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Sean Taylor
Publisher: Walker Books
Available July 3rd
What Came First?
Artist: Aaron Cushley
Agent: Georgia Tourney-Godphrey
Author: Kit Frost
Publisher: Farshore
Available July 3rd
Meet the Whales
Artist: Becca Hall
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Kate Peridot
Publisher: Hodder Children's
Available July 3rd
Where Is Sheep 100?
Artist: Sebastien Braun
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Susie Crosby
Publisher: B&H Kids
Available July 8th
Christmas Island Crabs: A Migration Story
Artist: Howard Gray
Author: Lisa Amstutz
Publisher: Amicus Publishing
Available July 8th
Jo Weston's Netball Besties: Foul Play
Artist: Sam Loman
Author: Jo Weston
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Available July 8th
Yours, Mine, Ours
Artist: Andrés Landazábal
Agent: Anne Moore Armstrong
Author: Arun Gandhi & Bethany Hegedus
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Available July 8th
Into the Bewilderness
Artist: Meggie Johnson
Agent: Alex Gehringer
Author: Gus Gordon
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Available July 8th
A Rakhi for Rakesh
Artist: Nabi H. Ali
Agent: James Burns
Author: Nadia Salomon
Publisher: Clarion Books
Available July 8th
All the Ways to be Pretty
Artist: Reyhana Ismail
Agent: Georgia Tourney-Godphrey
Author: Shamaila Khan
Publisher: Kube Publishing
Available July 8th
Data, Big and Small
Artist: Luke Seguin-Magee
Author: Dharini Balasubramaniam
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Available July 10th
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Bob Marley
Artist: Subi Bosa
Agent: Georgia Tourney-Godphrey
Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher: Quarto
Available July 10th
Perfect Harmony
Artist: Alex Willmore
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Kristina Stephenson
Publisher: Penguin Children's
Available July 10th
It's Almost Time for . . . Halloween!
Artist: Tom Knight
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Maisha Oso
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Available July 15th
Dein Magische Buch: Öffne das geheime Siegel
Artist: Kristina Kister
Author: Nica Stevens
Publisher: Ueberreuter Verlag
Available July 15th
Spooky Hide, Spooky Seek
Artist: Tom Knight
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Sam Williams
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Available July 15th
Ghosts of Fear Street: Who's Been Sleeping in My Grave
Artist: Berat Pekmezci
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Available July 15th
Ghosts of Fear Street: Hide and Shriek
Artist: Berat Pekmezci
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Available July 15th
Little Witch's To Do List
Artist: Kiersten Eagan
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Helen Kemp Zax
Publisher: Abrams
Available July 15th
The Girl Who Sings to Bees
Artist: Geraldine Rodríguez
Author: Chiquis & Lissette Norman
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Available July 15th
Ten Minutes to Bed: Where's Little Dragon?
Artist: Chris Chatterton
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Rhiannon Fielding
Publisher: Ladybird Books
Available July 15th
This That What
Artist: Colleen Larmour
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Kay Ashworth
Publisher: Puffin Books
Available July 17th
A Deadly Inheritance
Artist: Julia Murray
Author: Charlotte Vassell
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Available July 17th
The Martian Museum of Earth Animals
Artist: Matt Hunt
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Jules Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's
Available July 17th
Uh-Oh, Niko: Swimming
Artist: Chris Chatterton
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Chris Chatterton
Publisher: Ladybird Books
Available July 17th
Stemosaurus
Artist: Mark Chambers
Agent: Nicky Lander
Author: Andrew Root
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Available July 22nd
The Escape Artist
Artist: Galia Bernstein
Agent: Anne Moore Armstrong
Author: Thor Hanson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Available July 22nd
Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party
Artist: Hannah Peck
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Aubrey Plaza & Dan Murphy
Publisher: Penguin Kids
Available July 29th
How to train a Dad
Artist: Noémie Gionet Landry
Author: Sally Barns
Publisher: Affirm Press
Available July 29th
My Brother's Butt Is Haunted
Artist: James Rey Sanchez
Agent: Alex Gehringer
Author: Dan Poblocki
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Available July 29th
A Gift from the Birds
Artist: Jessica Smith
Author: Caroline Stills
Publisher: Text Publishing
Available July 29th
The Marvelous Now
Artist: Lorena Alvarez Gómez
Agent: Alex Gehringer
Author: Angela DiTerlizzi
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Available July 29th
Hedgehog or Echidna?
Artist: Amandine Thomas
Author: Ashleigh Barton
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Available July 30th
The One and Only You
Artist: Ben Mantle
Agent: Susan Penny
Author: Shane Hegarty
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Available July 31st
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