Sticker Fun: Unauthorized Wickedly Popular 1,600 Swankified Stickers

 

Available October 7, 2025

Wickedly Popular Stickers for your Inner Witch 

1,6000 Swankified Stickers 

Including 550+ nail stickers!

by Brooke O'Neill

Workman Publishing

Hachette Book Group, Inc.

2025

64 pages full color stickers

ISBN: 9781523534418

Wickedly cool stickers for any Oz aficionado!

This is the perfect gift for any occasion as it is filled with wicked cool stickers for any fan of "Wicked" and all things in the kingdom of Oz. It includes stickers for laptops, purses, bags, notebooks, snail mail and even stickers for your fancy wicked cool fingernails. Stickers feature all the characters and props. Well-known lines from the book and movie include: Not in Kansas anymore, there's no place like home, the wizard will see you now, and over the rainbow. Pages are devoted to each of the main characters: the tin man is featured with his ax and his heart and Toto is on stickers with his basket, his dog dish and puppy footprints are perfect for any Oz aficionado. 

The first pages are devoted to the Broadway show and wildly popular movie "Wicked" and include the wicked witch, Defying Gravity stickers followed by pretty pink princess stickers and stickers showing the two characters coming together in pages that show "Pink goes good with green." 

Highly recommended for grades 1 and up and for scrapbookers, notebook collectors (I see all you writers out there!), students, teachers, crafters, well, for everyone.

Quiet, Calming Picture Book: Breathe In, Breathe Out

 

Breathe In, Breathe Out

A calming sensory book 

by Dori Elys

Illustrated by Laura Roode

Little Simon

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division

2025

12 pages

ISBN: 9781665974820

Publication Date: August 12, 2025 

Calming pastel illustrations and interactive features will soothe wandering minds and fidgety hands. The reader learns to count slowly and breathe in and out. The youngest readers are taught to slow down and listen to their heartbeats. Unique design features are a sliding "window" to reveal the sun, a puffy cloud to touch and crinkle, and flowers who can dance. 

What a wonderful addition to the bedtime routine. Read this one first to calm the little one and gain their attention. Or read this one last to sooth them and get them ready for sleep. Once they master the breathing, it can be useful in stressful situations and help them to quiet down in order to sleep. 

Breathe In, Breathe Out is baby's first yoga breath tutorial presented not as a boring lesson but a quiet time of reading and resting. 

Highly recommended ages 1 and up. 

Exceptional Picture Book: Heartfelt

 

Heartfelt

by Elaine Vickers

Illustrations by Samantha Cotterill

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 

2025

56 pages

ISBN: 9781665929769

If you can judge a book by its cover, Heartfelt will be the one you'll fall in love with. Sheer joy on a child's face as they dance, arms overhead through a shower of red and pink hearts capture the true spirit of this lovely picture book based on the author's own experience of teaching children to do "Secret Service." A bag of paper hearts was given to each child to give one to each person they'd like to "gift." It could be a neighbor, teacher, parent, friend, or anyone the child thought deserved to be recognized. They would leave a heart, sometimes secretly, and share their experiences in the group the next week. The children involved were excited to share the care and love and once back in the group, excited the share the discussion. 

The child in the book leaves hearts for the neighbors with a bag of warm cookies. A bag with a heart is left for the mail carrier and the child makes a picture with a heart for her friend. As they continue the heartfelt giveaway, the child thinks about love and even though they have passed out all their hearts, they realize love and care is all around them right in their own neighborhood. 

Elaine Vickers shares this example of a HUGE idea that will impact children and those around them. If every child could experience this heartfelt fun, the world would be a different place. 

Highly, highly recommended for preK to grade 4.