Once again I’ve had the absolute pleasure of reading one of Viki de Lieme’s books for children – delightfully illustrated once more by Maria Burobkina - following the characters of Jacky and Raff as they teach young readers important lessons about the language they use...

Jake the Ape Makes a Lot of Mistakes! Book 1 in the Mindset School Series by Heather Lyn Davis is the story of a young ape still learning to perform daily activities like dressing, making breakfast, playing, and doing math. He makes a lot of...

Jacky & Raff and the Language of YES is a children’s picture book written by Viki de Lieme and illustrated by Maria Burobkina. After falling out with his family by yelling at his mother, Jacky the jackal runs away only to meet an easy-going...

Jake loves wandering through the woods. He growls at everything and everyone – in a friendly sort of way, of course. He enjoys meeting all of nature’s wonderful creatures and he’s made friends with many of them, especially Neet the squirrel. While Jake dashed through...

In Jessie and the Kindness Beads by Jessenia L Torres, we are introduced to a young girl who is bullied daily by the more popular children in the class. Unlike most kids her age, Jessie knows she sticks out because of the way she dresses,...

Mutants scavenged planet Earth and feasted on humans and animals. Juuji gathered his friends into a makeshift rocket and flew off to Mars. But Mars didn’t support some situations, and there were problems. One of Juuji’s friends, Asiim, remained in a cradle at nine years...

Jolene: Adventures of a Junk Food Queen is a fantastic book. It is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Alice and Wonderland. Creative, fun, and informative. When I first picked up the book, I was unsure how any author could make clean eating enjoyable or...

The lovely children’s story, Jackie Does It All by Fabian E. Ferguson, contains valuable lessons that every child should learn. It teaches children how to say no to avoid being overwhelmed. The scouts are preparing for a wonderful three-day event in which the top scout...

Just Nuisance, the Sea-Dog, written and illustrated by Patricia Furstenberg, is an introduction to South Africa’s only sea dog that became a Royal Navy Seaman. His name was Just Nuisance because once when he was following a human sailor around on the ship’s deck, the...

Jojo is a very happy, healthy, and intelligent little boy. He loves to play with his toys; he loves his trucks, and he's very friendly with others on the playground or at school. But Jojo is a little different from other children (but we're all...