Spring 2017 Children's Announcements: Publishers N-R

National Geographic Kids Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess, and Deanna Nikaido, photos by Joel Sartore (Feb. 14, hardcover, $15.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2767-4) pays tribute to the beauty, diversity, and fragility of the animal world. Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash by Sarah Wassner Flynn (Mar. 28, paper, $14.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2730-8) addresses composting and recycling, landfills and dumps, and ways to reuse rubbish. Explore My World discovers Rain Forests (July 18, paper, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2828-2) and Ducklings (Mar. 7, paper, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2715-5) by Marfe Ferguson Delano; and Sea Otters (July 18, paper, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2825-1) and Honey Bees (Mar. 7, paper, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2713-1) by Jill Esbaum, ages 3-7. First Big Books introduces National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Things That Go by Karen de Seve (July 11, hardcover, $14.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2804-6), ages 4-8. National Geographic Readers welcomes At the Beach by Shira Evans (May 9, paper, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2807-7); Buzz, Bee! (May 9, paper, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2780-3) and Climb, Koala! (July 25, paper, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2784-1) by Jennifer Szymanski; and Let's Play (June 6, paper, $7.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2791-9), ages 2-5; Predator Face-Off by Melissa Stewart (July 25, paper, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2811-4), ages 4-6; and Night Sky by Laura Marsh (June 27, paper, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2815-2), ages 5-8. National Geographic Kids Chapters gains Dog on a Bike: And More True Stories of Amazing Animal Talents! by Moira Rose Donohue (Feb. 14, paper, $5.99, ISBN 978-1-4263-2705-6),...