In The King's Decree by Torina Kingsley, Princess Devina loved to fill everyone's lives with joy but everything changed when she became fifteen. From that day on, the sunshine disappeared from her heart and facing each day became a struggle. Although her parents tried to...

What is your all-time favorite fairy tale? I think mine is Beauty and the Beast. What if the Beauty in the story really is the beast? Twist the original tale around and re-tell it and you can create another version of what it means to...

The Lumpy, Lumpy Snowman by Meghan McCaffery, illustrated by Annie Wilkinson, is a sweet tale of a girl named Charlie who has an active imagination. Charlie wakes up one morning to see a lumpy, lumpy snowman in her yard. She wonders who made it. Then...

Why would anyone want to read? When there’s computer games, television, high tech this and that, what could possibly be the allure of reading? Deziri loves to read (as do I). Why? Well, why not, is what I would ask. Reading takes you to worlds...

Rainbow was born different in a beehive far away. Instead of black and yellow stripes, this bee had stripes of different colors. That is why the Queen Bee decided to name the bee Rainbow. Rainbow not only looked different but liked different things too and...

“Dowsing doesn’t just mean getting wet. It can also mean finding treasure without any clues.” What if you had a pair of dowsing rods? Something that would find whatever you asked it to find? Like divining rods used by diviners to find underground water? Would...

Let's meet the Germie Germlins, the tiny nasty monsters who lived on a planet far away called Virion in the storybook The Amazing Zoe Defeats The Germie Germlins by Valene Campbell. They were at their happiest when they were able to touch anyone or any...

In The Little Ouch, we are introduced to a little girl named Penelope who doesn’t want to go to the doctor. She has to get her flu shot which is something she doesn’t want. The little girl makes a scene, kicking and screaming at the...

Everyone gets angry. In Tame the Beast, D.K. Brantley has written a rhyming story about how you can handle that beast. Several colorful beasts – including a werewolf, vampire, mummy, and swamp thing - demonstrate what it looks like to feel angry and they are...

The world was absolutely perfect and delightful for the little girl Mimi-Lu but one day something terrible happened and the perfect world Mimi-Lu knew went away. It was gone for days, weeks, and months. One day something fluttered by and three purple butterflies began circling...