New Releases by Ari Berk

Blue Trail Breakthrough is a leadership fable set in a fictional camp that explores the intricate process of building high-performing teams. Using the innovative Triangle Model, the book presents a flexible framework for aligning team efforts, fostering accountability, enhancing communication, and building trust. Using this model, teams learn to engage with tension, embrace responsibility, and cultivate clarity, authenticity, and integrity. Ultimately, the compelling narrative serves as a model for any team wishing for a new way to tackle challenges, grow together, and achieve collective success. Maria had always loved camp. She began attending Camp Starry Sky as a young girl and continued as a counselor in her teenage years. She progressed to the rank of assistant director at Starry Sky before, with the financial and moral support of her mentors, acquiring the prestigious Camp Blue Trail to run as a director herself. At Blue Trail, Maria encounters an eclectic group of leaders and counselors who, though passionate, have overseen a sharp decline in the camp''s enrollment. Maria must balance respect for the existing community and culture of the camp with the new ideas and strategies she wishes to bring to the table. To Maria and the others on the Blue Trail team, camp is more than just a fun summer in the woods. It is an opportunity to build critical leadership and social skills, to make lifelong bonds, and to grow as a multifaceted individual.

Renowned artist Brian Froud and scholar Ari Berk have continued their exploration of the goblin realm. (For the uninformed, goblins are those maleficent creatures who cause all manner of havoc in the human realm.) Now, thanks largely to Froud''s and Berk''s continuing carelessness, the viscid and largely nonsensical NEW volume has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Among its pages are new letters of apologies and disclaimers complete with new art; a list of Gargle''s new titles, grants, entitlements, and responsibilities; and, sadly, much more! Also included is an envelope containing a new talisman that is guaranteed to ward off goblins.

In the stunning conclusion to the Undertaken trilogy that Publishers Weekly called “a thought-provoking gothic fantasy,” Silas must master his powers and confront a past that is anything but dead. Silas Umber has returned from Arvale, his family’s ancestral home. Frantic to retrieve the shade of his beloved Beatrice, he turns his back on the spectral chaos he has left behind, unaware that the malevolence he unleashed has followed him back to Lichport. As his family and friends suffer and fall at the hands of the vengeful Huntsman from Arvale’s sunken mansions, Silas must reach deep into his complicated bloodline to summon powers and wisdom beyond those required of a simple Lichport Undertaker. But the dark and painful secrets of his birth threaten to overwhelm him, and if he can’t lay the ghosts of his own past to rest, Silas may lose everything and everyone he has grown to love and worked to protect.

As the only living resident of Arvale Manor, Silas must seek to understand the past and put an ancient wrong to right, as he discovers that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its past.

A breathtaking picture book with audio, illustrated by mega-bestseller Loren Long, about a young bat setting off into the world using only his good sense! Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you. With these words, Chiro’s mother sends him off into the night for the first time alone. It’s an adventure, but how will he find his way? And how will he find his way home? As the young bat discovers, navigating the world around him is easy as long as he uses his good sense. This beautiful and touching coming-of-age story, with mesmerizing artwork from New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long and lyrical text from Ari Berk, includes audio and conveys a heartwarming and universal message: No matter how far away you go, you can always find your way home.

Professor Berk returns to reveal another trove of magical history to his avid readers: the history of the humble hobgoblin. The richly illustrated, faux-nonfiction volume includes such special features as several mini-booklet flaps, a gatefold, and a lavish cover with embossing and foil.

When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber''s father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father''s hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.

Describes the history of mermaids and other sea creatures in folklore and mythology, discussing their anatomy, magic, language, and encounters with humans.

Explores through words and images the stories and cultures of some Native American tribes.

This lavish exploration of giants touches on folklore and myth, truth and whimsy, ranging from tales of giants in ancient Greece to the Celts and their Green Knight. Includes flaps, booklets, gatefolds, and an elegant tassel. Illustrations.

HOW TO BE A VIKING is the next instalment in the adventure-filled series that brought you HOW TO BE A KNIGHT and HOW TO BE AN EXPLORER. Purportedly written in 1138 by Ari the Learned, HOW TO BE A VIKING contains guidance and wisdom for young, aspiring Northlanders who are soon to set out on life''s adventure. Containing chapters on how to feast, explore, write, speak and arm yourself like a Viking, this book teaches you all you need to know about the gods, giants, trolls, sailing ships and Viking runes, as well as the world of mead hall.

Readers are invited into the fascinating world of Giants, including solving the mysteries of what a Giant keeps in his sack, Giant costume and clothing, the life cycle of Giants and the mindboggling evidence of Giants that can be found today in landscape features around the world. Meet the world''s most famous Giants, including Goliath, Gogmagog, Polyfemus, and the 9''3" Child of Hale. A fascinating and beautifully presented volume not to be missed!

All about fairies, these letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she ever stop this nasty habit?!) And the fairies - they too have done their part, sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout.

In 24 never-before-seen paintings, best-selling fantasy artist Froud interprets the ancient and mystical runes of Celtic and European origin through Elfland, a world of faeries and myth.