Sour Lemon and Sweet Tea: The Sour Lemon Series, Book 1 by Julane Fisher is a beautiful story with some powerful messages for young readers. Eleven-year-old Lillie Mae and her twin, Ellie, live on a chicken farm in Triple Gap, a sleepy town forty miles...

The Great Camp Escape is a children’s picture book story written by R.C. Wittig. Cameron, his sister, Bridget, and their cousin, Quinn, loved playing outdoors by their grandmother’s house. There were so many things to do, and they always had so much fun. Then one...

Bottom Burps is a children’s picture book written by Dave Cudd and illustrated by Brendan Mauer. As a young boy ponders his loud and odorous bodily functions, he comes to realize that flatulence is a natural occurrence as long as he excuses himself afterwards. But...

Science Mom's Guide to Water, Part 2 by Jenny Ballif is an educational and informative book that will teach children more about water and its properties in a fun and interactive way. Written using a lot of illustrations the book gives facts about water that...

Five-year-old Ella is confused about who she is. She doesn’t think she looks very much like her mother, who is African American, or her father, who is Mexican American. On her first day of kindergarten, she tells her new teacher, Mrs. Chang, that she thinks...

Three Sneezes in a Row—what could a picture book with that title be about? Cassie Kitzmiller has you guessing from the beginning. Ten sounds that you can hear coming from your body are shared with the reader through a counting poem and action verb after...

Moey’s Big Back Yard is from The Adventures of Moe children’s book series, written by Rochelle M. Lazauskas and illustrated by Teresa Amehana Garcia. When Moey, the black and white puppy, goes into his big back yard where it is cozy and warm, he decides...

Doctor Pound: Bedtime Story in Rhyme (Volume 4) by Tatiana Martchenko is a colorful illustrated children’s book of fantasy, animals, and rhymes centering around the continent of Africa. Doctor Pound is an excellent doctor who has animal patients both near and far. He works tirelessly...

Within each generation, there is something that stands out, especially in the way of communication from oral to written. In the '70s there was a heavy influence of shorthand, in the late '90s cell phones, social media and emoji evolved, and now Kanmoji has appeared,...

Alabama Oh: Artist, Dandelion Dreamer, and Independent Girl by Andi Cann,‎ with illustrations by Micaela Stefano, follows the story of a young girl, vivid with life and enchanted by flowers and color, and her struggle in a bland, colorless town. Alabama Oh - her name,...