Books
Novels
Frances and the Werewolves
of the Black Forest
WINNER OF THE 2024 PAGE TURNER AWARD FOR BEST MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION
BRAM STOKER AWARD® NOMINEE
When her train is hijacked on the way to an emergency meeting of scientists, and Frances and her friend Luca flee into the Black Forest. Seeking shelter with a group of orphans, Frances learns the rules of the woods: Never travel alone. Never make a sound. Because something hunts in the shadows, something with glowing eyes and sharp teeth.
Frances is no stranger to monsters, but she quickly learns there are forces more terrifying than she ever imagined…and that the key to defeating them might lie in her own scientific discoveries. With Luca and the orphans at her side, Frances must again face the horrifying, this time determined to stop evil and make a name for herself, once and for all.
Frances and the Monster
One day Frances Stenzel will be a world-famous inventor like her parents … if they’d only let her leave the house.
When Frances is left home yet again with only an infuriatingly clever robot named Hobbes for company, she enters her parents’ off-limits laboratory, determined to claim her freedom and prove her scientific mettle.
Instead, she accidentally awakens her great-grandfather’s secret and most terrible invention—an enormous monster who breaks out of the manor and disappears into the city below.
★ “Bursting with wry humor and references to Frankenstein, Tuma’s idiosyncratic, utterly original tale moves at breakneck speed through a richly imagined landscape, accumulating vividly rendered characters and settings…while injecting considered discussions of modern themes such as gender roles and privilege.”
—Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Picture Books
What The Dinosaurs Did The Night Before Christmas
In the third installment of the What the Dinosaurs Did series, your favorite overly-jolly dinosaurs get up to all kinds of holiday mischief: tipping trees, smashing gingerbread houses, swinging from garlands, and more.
Will they wreck the halls and end up with coal in their Christmas stockings, or is a Christmas miracle in store?
What The Dinosaurs Did At School
In the follow-up to the hit What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night, everyone's favorite plastic dinosaurs make the trip to school. Each scene is photographed in meticulous detail, letting viewers joyfully suspend disbelief and think to themselves--just LOOK at what these diminutive dinos did at school!
What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night
A Bank Street College Distinguished Children's Book.
Boasting bright and hilarious photographs, along with a story written from the point of view of an older, wiser sibling, Refe and Susan Tuma's picture book documents a very messy adventure that shows just what the dinosaurs did last night.
★ “The authors may well have created a monster with this deliciously chaotic notion. ”
—Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
