KATE BEATON
Kate Beaton releases her debut picture book, The Princess and the Pony, in July with Scholastic Canada.
More Beaton: Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection appears with Drawn & Quarterly in September.
JULIE MORSTAD
The Almost Everything Book (Simply Read Books) lands in October, and the artist also provides illustrations for U.S. author Laurel Snyder’s Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Books, Aug.)
KYO MACLEAR
The Specific Ocean (Kids Can, Aug.) is illustrated by Katty Maurey, while Maclear’s homage to classic picture books, The Good Little Book (Tundra, Aug.), features images by Marion Arbona.