Zinny always finds reasons not to wash her hands and she finds excuses like she had just washed her hands or her hands were not that dirty. Her parents always tell her to wash her hands before eating, when she gets home from the playground,...

"Listen to the earth’s natural rhythm…To play the drum, one must remember every drum stroke is a rhythm” are beautiful words taken from The Drum With No Sound by Katrina Rahman-Stephens. This beautifully illustrated children's picture book sets the stage in Nigeria and tells the...

My Pandemic Diary by Dr. Vedika Agrawal and Dr. Kunal Das is an engaging story written in rhyming verses about the times we live in currently. An eleven-year-old girl is confined to home, although she is not sick, but because of the corona pandemic. Initially,...

How many times do we tell girls that they are enough? There is always something better to look forward to, something more that they can do and be. While that may serve as a motivation to achieve great things, it is also necessary for young...

Eddy, one of the two characters in the colorful children's book Eddy the Farting Pug by Jeffrey Blatt, wakes up and finds a bowl of marshmallows. He's having them for breakfast, but his friend Corky the Corgi already knows that nothing good will come of...

The Cycle of a Dream: A Kid’s Introduction to Structural Racism in America by Kimberly Narain is an easy and direct short book describing the origins and the development of systemic racism in the United States. It is beautifully illustrated by Mike Motz, who demonstrates...

Bumpy was a rock who sat down on the grass and got in the way of children when they played. Bumpy felt his life was a curse because he didn't mean to spoil games. A tumbling cabbage advised Bumpy that he would be of no...

The little girl loved her mom and dad but she thought it was better they were apart. She knew her mom had a heart of gold and her smile lit up the room but she also knew her mom was happier when she was not...

You don’t have to be a child to be bullied or even to be a bully. Adults are just as vulnerable as children. So, what do we do? What can we do when we see someone being hurt or bullied? These bullies are not only...

Be careful who you trust. Mel, the king of the monkeys, believes he can be and do anything he wants without fear. But he has his enemies. Only his trusting nature doesn’t allow him to be cautious. So when Mr. Alligator approaches Mel, on the...