Children often hear the excuse, “We don’t have the money for that.” Sadly, not many parents take the time to explain to their children what money is and how to properly use it. Enter Thelma Ribeiro and her fabulous book for children on finances, Money...

A Lost Star Named Stella: A Children’s Story About Learning to Follow God is an engaging and thoughtful Christian children’s book written by Jackie Perucki with illustrations by Larisa Ivankovic. This uplifting story shares the beautiful message that God loves each one of us and...

Kangaroo Max Travels the Arctic, written by Chris Sunray and illustrated by Phillipa Haskins, is a children's picture book and the second in the Life Lessons from the world’s smartest animals and nature series, preceded by book one, Kangaroo Max Travels Australia. In this installment,...

Are you brave? Can you do anything you set your heart to do? Even when you’re awake and the others are teasing and bullying you? Nino is a platypus and he wants to believe he’s the bravest in Animalandia. Well, he is in his dreams....

Doing what is right is not always easy. However, if we learn this as children, it will be much easier to do so in the future. You do the right thing when you tell your classmates not to write on the wall with a marker,...

Periwinkle Picks the Pickle by Lauren Harrell is a delightful and wonderfully illustrated story. It is the tale of Peter Pickle and Princess Periwinkle. Every year, people from the Kingdom of Cucumber bring their pickles, hoping that one of theirs will be chosen as the...

What's Troubling Tawny? by Emma Sandford is a gorgeous and original picture book. The way it is illustrated is fabulous. The text is embedded next to the pictures in various ways which makes it all the more appealing. The drawings perfectly complement the text. It...

Sadoni Squirrel: Superhero- A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story by Once Upon a Dance is a whimsical children’s story with easy dance movements that anyone can try. Sadoni is a lively squirrel who believes that she can fly. She is also a real superhero who has...

Part of the PenPal Gal’s series, Friends Forever by Julie Thiessen follows Reese on a vacation. Reese, who, along with her family, spends much of the summer months camping at Lake Shore Retreat, enjoys an annual week-long kick-off at the campground. This year, though, sees...

It happened to me, and I am sure it will happen to you and your children. Within two minutes of starting to read Jake and the Biggest Yawn Ever by Chris Hardy, I began to Y-A-W-N. Our puppy friend, Jake, lets out the most enormous...