When children face new challenges in life it is normal for them to experience strong feelings such as having doubts and even negative thoughts about themselves. Adults can help children by teaching them to adopt a positive point of view. Search for Silver Linings: The...

Greenwood School is having an art contest. The students are all excited and do their best to win the contest. Benjamin and Lenny are the top contenders, and both greatly want to win. Author Sandy Jarvis sets the scene in The Golden Kite. The two...

Everyone struggles with anxiety at some point in their lives. Kris Taft Miller understands this and has created The Anxious Avocado - "a children's book about dealing with anxiety including techniques to help handle stress and stay calm to address anxiety on a child’s level."...

I used to love making daisy chain wreaths for my hair. Or picking the petals and chanting, “He loves me yes, he loves me not.” As a child, however, I didn’t know that daisies could be tossed in a salad and eaten, or used to...

I love the Trees by Delores Henriques is a children's action and picture story. Trees are one of the most important aspects of our lives but too many people fail to see the benefits they offer. Farmer Jones has gotten together with a First Grade...

There are so many ways that children can learn the alphabet. Why not do so with food and nutrition? In reading Queen Bee's Alphabet Cookbook: A Nutrition Guide for Families by Mariah Ecker RD and Teri Ecker, children will have fun because they will learn...

Teaching life lessons to children contributes to healthier and more positive relationships with others. They will be able to use these lessons to address problems and, in this way, they can become more independent. Cama: Your Special Friend subtitled Change Kindness Love Forgiveness has four...

In The Mermaid And The Ice Cube Necklace (Mermaid Science) by Lois Wickstrom, we are introduced to Maia and Fig, two kids who are enjoying a picnic by a lake. Fig brought ice cubes along so that their beverages don’t get too warm. Trezzie, the...

In Mama Opossum’s Misadventures (Awesome Opossum Stories), Gina Gallois tells the tale of an opossum who loses her ten joeys. She sets out to find them, meeting other nocturnal creatures as she searches for her offspring. Some of the animals are not friendly, so Mama...

Hogan is a young Dalmatian that is adopted into a forever family, which consists of a mom and dad (both human) and a sister (another dog). Then the family adopts another dog, and the family is complete. Hogan has what many would think of as...