From award-winning creators Matthew Burgess and Matthew Forsythe comes a new picture book classic and an invitation to imaginative dreaming. IF THE MOON is the perfect lyrical bedtime book―a visual poem that soothes and smooths the transition from waking to sleeping.
IF THE MOON
by Matthew Burgess
illustrated by Matthew Forsythe
Stonefruit Studio/Sourcebooks, August 2026
If the Earth and if the moon,
if the whistling of a tune.
If you drift, if you dream,
into space, into streams…
Softly step on tender feet,
come and lift the latch of sleep.
This portable dream machine is an antidote to the endless “what-ifs” that fill one’s head before bedtime—inviting readers to allow their minds to gently wander before drifting off to sleep.
Readers will delight with each turn of the page as we move through the skies and the seas, and between past and present.
Matthew Burgess is a poet and educator and the author of a number of picture books, including Fireworks, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring, and The Bear and the Moon. Matthew’s books have received many accolades, including starred reviews, a Eureka Gold Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and inclusion on numerous best-of lists from the NYPL, the Chicago Public Library,the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, ALA Booklist, Amazon, and others. A full-time professor at Brooklyn College, Matthew also has been a poet-in-residence in New York City public schools.
Matthew Forsythe is the author and illustrator of Pokko and the Drum, Mina, and Aggie and the Ghost. He was also a designer for animated projects including Adventure Time, The Midnight Gospel, and the Oscar-nominated short film Robin Robin. He was born in Toronto and now lives in Los Angeles.
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The first in a bold new YA dystopian trilogy blending the psychological intensity of The Maze Runner with the layered secrecy of The Darkest Minds.
RECRUITMENT
by K.A. Riley
Sourcebook Fire, November 2026
In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It’s the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again.
It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken.
The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life. The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected.
Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they’re the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense.
If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her. If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.
RECRUITMENT is Book 1 in the timely Resistance Series, a story about connection as resistance within a world that demands complete obedience. Kress’s unforgettable bond with her raven, Render, adds a Golden Compass–like dynamic and could be the key to her survival.
Residing in Ontario, K.A. Riley is a top-selling self-published author in the young adult dystopian space, with over 20,000 TikTok followers. In her spare time, she loves walking her drooling pup, traveling, and interacting with readers on TikTok while chugging copious amounts of coffee. She may or may not also eat plentiful chocolate while on the treadmill.