A guide for families
The new-book calendar, explained
The coming-out calendar lists every new book with a release day in the series Peabody tracks, month by month. Here is where those days come from, why one can move, and how a book turns from coming to out on the morning it arrives.
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Where the days come from
A release day is the day a publisher says a book goes on sale in the US. Peabody copies it from the publisher's own page, or another page we can cite, and dates the check on the series page. 19 books on Peabody have a day on file, and 18 of them fall on a Tuesday, the usual on-sale day for most new books in the US. The furthest one out is Hilo: Attack of the Hungry Monsters, on February 2, 2027.
Books from the UK, Australia or Japan often come out there first. The day on Peabody is the US one, because that is the edition most of our readers will find in a shop or a library. Where a series began somewhere else, its page says so.
Why a day can slip
Release days move. Printing takes longer than planned, an author needs more time, or a publisher shifts a book to a better month. Usually the change is announced weeks ahead, sometimes only days. When a day moves, we change it on the series page and the calendar changes with it, because both read the same data. A day that hasn't been announced stays off the calendar: we don't guess.
If a book you were counting down to disappears from the calendar, check its series page. It will give the new day, or say that the day is no longer known.
How Out today works
Each page works out today's date in US Eastern time, where most of the publishers are. At midnight Eastern, a book whose day it is becomes out: the countdown ends, the sun banner says Out today, and the series' count goes up by one. Pages are drawn again at most an hour apart, so the change shows within an hour of midnight, with nobody pressing a button.
On the West Coast that midnight is 9 the evening before; in the UK it is early morning. The banner stays up for the whole day, and then the book moves to the calendar's Just out list.
What a countdown means
The countdown counts whole days from today, in Eastern time. Tomorrow means the book comes out at the next midnight Eastern. A countdown can't make a shop or a library move faster: some shops put a new book out on its day, some a little later, and a library may need a week or two to get it onto the shelf. Putting a hold on it at the library before the day is often the quickest way to borrow it.
Never miss one
There are no emails and no accounts. Tick the books your child has read on any series page, and My shelf puts a NEW badge on a series when its next book comes out. The ticks stay on your device and are never sent anywhere.
The calendar covers the next twelve months. A month with no new book is skipped, so a short calendar just means a quiet season. The hub's Coming soon strip shows the next few months at a glance.