Flowers, Plants and Fascinating Facts: First Reference for Children by Gloria D. Gonsalves is a first-rate educational children’s book. It is enriching and comprehensive, comprising 170 pages, with 2 pages per flower/plant/tree. One page consists of information including interesting and useful facts and, most importantly,...

Ori Opossum lives in the forest with his fellow forest animals. On this particular night, while he was hungry, his stomach grumbled loudly. He decided to look for sticks to start a fire when he came across some trash in the forest, and because of...

Trivia games are everywhere, so to survive against such competition, one has to do a great job at presenting the questions and answers. David W. Leon does this in Interesting Facts for Curious Kids by carefully wording and choosing the various topics for the questions....

Pay Matters to Kids is a neat book by David Weaver that shares creative ways children can learn to earn and use money. I firmly believe that children should be rewarded with an incentive for their work. This might be an allowance or prize. As...

The Little Hedgehog’s Second Christmas by Ian Humpheryes is a delightful holiday tale in the Bluebell Woods series. In this story, Little Hedgehog is very excited to finally celebrate Christmas Day. He sets out to find the perfect Christmas gifts for his friends. However, each...

Not Me by Lana Stukel is a picture book that tells the story of a little monster named Not Me. He is mostly happy, but here he narrates a rather sad tale. Not Me is always blamed for mistakes. Whether it is about making a...

In Harry the Horse and the Special Place by KTY Haileselassie, too young to work, Harry has been kept in a barn since his birth and dearly wants to know about the world beyond stall doors. His mother could tell him little, as she had...

If you are like most people, you have lost something before. It might be your keys or a comb, but it is frustrating. Think how frustrating it is for a child when something goes missing. That is the situation Barbara B. Thompson addresses in Have...

Amanda Reou introduces the Opossum family and their nightly ritual in Goodnight Gratefuls. After a full day of playing and having fun, the three children—Opal, Otto, and Oscar—are called inside to get ready for bed. They do their night-time regular habits like brushing their teeth...

Mitchie the Service Dog Gets a Job! is a heartwarming story by Diane Petrozzo. It begins in Colorado with an elderly man named Mel, who is losing his eyesight. Upon hearing the news from his doctor that he will eventually become blind, he feels hopeless,...