Hope and resilience are evident in The Plucky Ukrainian Sunflower by Karen Doornebos. The sunflowers noticed that things had changed in their world. The people who lived in their dacha hadn't been seen for days. Then, an enormous bear appeared, stomping on the sunflowers and...

The Legend of the Sleep-Eating Elephant by Nocola Williams is a sweet children’s story with an endearing message and themes of coexistence between humans and animals. Elephant has the important job of helping a village of growers tend to the garden and is responsible for...

Hulking Headaches by Chip Colquhoun and Korky Paul is a delightful book that tells two heartwarming tales. The first story, Huff Mctough, follows a princess who feels useless and unwanted in her kingdom until she helps a hairy creature named Huff untangle his knotty hair,...

What’s in a name? If yours was Sloppy Slurpy Silly Sally, it would mean a lot. While a bright little girl, 5-year-old Sloppy had proven to be a handful for her parents since she was a toddler—mischievous and a bit of a hellion. As author...

Grandpa Groundhog is a heartwarming children’s picture book written and illustrated by Kevin Geiger. It tells the story of two grandpas, one who lives above ground and another who lives below. The above-ground grandpa is grumpy and tries to tend to his garden, but is...

Vincent von Egg by Carmen Coronado is a beautiful picture book that tells the story of Vincent, a mean and arrogant egg from Frijjerayter Land. Anyone whom Vincent perceives to be different from him becomes the victim of his cruel words. His friends, the twin...

The Boy Who Loved Boxes by Michael Albanese is billed as a picture book for adults but works for all ages. A young boy discovers the joy of sorting his items into boxes. Everything has its place. Books go in one box, trains in another....

A World of New Beginnings, written by Melissa Garin, is a small book with a big message for young people: change is scary and not always easy, but adventure waits on the journey and life is infinitely more interesting and fun when adventure is included....

Two villains must deal with other, much more intelligent characters in the two stories collected in Bullies vs the Bold by Chip Colquhoun. In the first story, a greedy leopard puts the jungle at risk, so the animals decide to make a deal with him to...

Gugu Giraffe Goes Fishing by Auralee Arkinsly is a wonderful book for any child who is a budding scientist, biologist, zoologist, conservationist, or naturalist. As a former high school biology teacher, I wish all my former students had this book as children. The information shared...