{"id":17387,"date":"2015-11-06T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2015-11-06T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:00:58","slug":"year-of-the-yeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=17387","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Yeti"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend and fellow Vermont College MFA grad Betsy Wernert is a children’s librarian as well as a fabulous writer, avid reader and book reviewer. Years ago, Betsy\u00a0created a set of cryptid characters<\/a> who introduced great books to kids. We were also classmates with another terrific writer, Trina St. Jean, who was working on a\u00a0novel\u00a0about a sasquatch. Back then, there wasn’t much in the way of stories with cryptid heroes, but wow, has there been an explosion of them this year! Or, to use my favorite term for a group of yeti(s), a flurry.
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\nT<\/strong><\/em>he Thing About Yetis<\/strong><\/em> by Vin\u00a0Vogel
\n(Dial, $16.99) ISBN 9780803741706
\nThis is a book we Vermonsters — I mean, Vermonters — can really identify with. Even the most snow-loving creatures on the planet, the furry yetis, can get a little sick of winter. This book is a celebration of the joys offered by seasons both snowy and sunny.
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\nDear Yeti<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by James Kwan
\n(FSG, $17.99) ISBN 9780374300456
\nTwo hikers eager to meet a yeti send letters to him on their journey. Birds-eye views show the yeti observing them from his hiding spots \u2014 and, though he is quite shy, he just might have\u00a0a surprise for them.
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\nMonsters on the Run (Yeti Files #02 )<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Kevin\u00a0Sherry
\n(Scholastic, $8.99) ISBN: 9780545556194
\nBlizz, a yeti, and his cryptid\u00a0pals set out to help\u00a0their friend\u00a0Nessie (the Loch Ness monster)\u00a0find another of her kind.\u00a0This involves time travel several dozen million years back to the days of plesiosaurs. This heavily illustrated chapter book series is total silly fun. (Book 1 is called Meet the Cryptids<\/em>.)
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\nAre We There, Yeti?<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Ashlyn\u00a0Anstee (Simon & Schuster, $17.99)
\nISBN: 9781481430890
\nWhen a group of school kids piles onto their orange bus for a mystery\u00a0field trip, they can’t resist asking their furry bus driver, “Are we there, Yeti?” again and again, as they pass by all kinds of likely field trip locations.\u00a0Finally, they reach their destination, and it’s a snowy surprise!
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\nNo Yeti Yet <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Mary Ann Fraser
\n(Peter Pauper, $16.99) ISBN\u00a09781441308559
\nAs a little brother trails behind his older sibling who is leading them on a yeti hunt, he asks all kinds of yeti-related questions. They’ve set out to spy a yeti, but it turns out the yeti is spying on them!
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\nYeti and the Bird\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Nadia\u00a0Shireen
\n(Atheneum, $17.99) ISBN\u00a09781481403894
\nAll of the forest animals are afraid of the giant, shaggy Yeti \u2014 except for a lost bird, who slams into Yeti and then cried because Yeti isn’t the island she was looking for. Their budding friendship leads more animals to befriend\u00a0Yeti, so by the time the Bird is ready to migrate,\u00a0Yeti won’t be so lonely.
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\nAnd for the yeti’s warmer-weather incarnation:
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\nSuper Sasquatch Showdown ( Sasquatch and Aliens 02 )\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by\u00a0Charise Mericle Harper
\n(Henry Holt, $13.99)
\nIn this sequel to Alien Encounter<\/em>, Morgan and Lewis can’t resist trying out the Sasquatch robot remote control that their neighbor entrusts to them, which leads to all manner of amusing disaster.
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\nAnyone want to place bets on the next cryptic to warrant a trend? How about one of Betsy’s half-invisible turtles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a trend that’s not abominable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}