It’s the last book birthday of May, and we’ve got some wonderful reads to celebrate! From warm family stories to spooky fantasy adventures, from partitioned hippopotamuses to uniformed unicorns, from classic tales to brand new fables featuring bunny friends, here are the new releases we’re excited about!

One Whole Hippopotamus: A Book About Parts and Patterns by Carter Higgins

Unicorns in Uniforms by Beth Ferry & A.N. Kang

Beatrix and Her Friends: Celebrating the Life of Beatrix Potter by Anne Lambelet

The Fabric of Us by Aditi Anand

Bonebag by E.M. Elliott & David Elliott

The Books of Clash, Volume 7 by Gene Luen Yang, Kendall Goode & Alison Acton

I Told a Little Lie by Judith Henderson

Kindergarten Gets Ready by Naomi Davis, illus. by Pete Oswald

Huge thanks to Chronicle Kids, SimonKIDS, Peachtree, Candlewick Press, Holiday House, Astra BFYR, First Second, MacKids Books, Little, Brown BFYR, and Hachette Kids for copies of these books, and happy book birthday to their creators!