Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill (Random House Studio). “Did you know that all snails are named Bob? It’s true! They feel that having the same name helps keep their lives simple. Snails like a straightforward, bland, uncomplicated life.” And that goes for this particular Bob, too, a slimy, unassuming little guy. Until the night he gets bitten by something, that is, and suddenly sprouts bat wings, starts sleeping upside-down, and develops an irresistible urge to suck the juice from tomatoes. Holy cow! Bob (again, this specific one) has become a vampire!

This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin (author) and Julie Morstad (illustrator) (Candlewick). “We must begin with the orange. So very orange. So deliciously round and sweet.” But this mesmerizing book hardly stops at clementines and mandarins. Its tour of the unique color spans centuries and continents, touching on everything from The Canterbury Tales’ rooster “dreaming of a fox whose ‘colour was betwixe yelow and reed’” to Buddhist monks’ turmeric-dyed robes to the carrot-hued jack-o-lanterns we carve on Halloween!

A Sound in the Night by María Coco (Rise x Penguin Workshop). The girl and her dog are having a wonderful day in the wilderness — swimming, flying kites, and playing catch. They even make s’mores around the campfire! But when night falls and the woods go dark? A frightening “CRACK” outside the tent makes them jump. What could’ve made the scary sound? Fill in the blanks yourself in this wordless tale of friendship, adventure, and navigating those spooky (or not-so-spooky) moments that come for us all.