Why Animals Love Santa (Join Santa on his Adventures in the Forest) by Santa, Edit Engel, and Alan McBrearty is a children’s adventure story that would appeal most to young children and parents who celebrate Christmas. This book is filled with Santa’s forest adventures and...

Meet Quigley, a tiny hedgehog who is quiet and thoughtful in Quigley the Quiet Hedgehog by Claudine Norden. Quigley watches everything and takes it all in. He does not think he needs to shout in a big crowd. He is confident that he is seen...

Deer Oh Deer is a children’s book on the theme of animals and nature penned by author Ed Ehlers and illustrated by Emely Pascual. Based on a true story from the author’s life, this is the second book in the Max & Tucker Adventure series...

El Perro con Sombrero meets Los Gatos con Gelatos: English and Spanish Edition is a bilingual animal adventure storybook for children, grades k-3, written by Derek Taylor Kent, illustrated by Lynx Animation Studios, and translated into Spanish by Mara Martinez. Dogs and homework have traditionally...

Otter is the music conductor. He carries the baton, swishing it in time to the music sheet that lies before him on the music stand. An orchestra of animals and their wonderful instruments of choice is preparing to perform, all numerically set. There’s one lemur...

Pippin's family lived on the river and she had been kayaking since the age of five. Now at nine, she could name all the animals on the river. She knew many of the turtles by species. When her next-door neighbor, Tommy, tried to take a...

Sam’s sea otter family has a very special treasure. It’s a stone. Not just any stone, but one that is perfectly smooth and curved in just the right spots. It’s been handed down for generations because it’s the ideal stone to serve clams, mussels and...

There are so many things that make a person beautiful and these things have nothing to do with physical appearance. For example, people are beautiful when they are kind and caring, when they laugh, when they are learning, when they share, when they allow their...

Cottontail Elementary School always closes out the year with the Gopher Games, an event-filled week with races, relays, and revelry. Nerdi and the twins, Artsy and Sporty, looked forward to these games because it gave them another opportunity to add a trophy to the walls...

Mama Kangaroo Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times, by Cassandra Lennox, is a 44-page-long children’s picture book that mimics the nursery rhymes I grew up with but are set more for today's youngsters. The rhymes are positive, bright, and often funny. The pictures are colorful with...