Kids Count by authors Nichole Hansen and Tevin Hansen is a delightful and larger than life children’s picture book that is an educational tool as well as a creative device to encourage children to learn how to count the numbers one through ten. Each number...

Helen watches her former playmates from the window now. Not long ago she had mixed with the blond children outside, but now she is considered the enemy. Words like Nazis and dirty Jews were becoming more and more common, with little to no explanation from...

Kurt, Gert, Jazmine, and Bagel In Their Train Station Adventure is part of a series of books by Irene Dolnick for teaching phonetic sounds to early readers. This book covers the letter combinations -tch, -ag, -ang, -ank, and -ed as suffixes with the pronunciation “d”...

There may be a simple answer to your question, why do apples float in water? They feel heavy enough, yet when placed in a bowl of water, they float. I guess floating apples is the reason why bobbing for apples is such a fun game...

Why would K.C. be digging in the garden? That’s what Mom wanted to know. It led to a series of questions, starting with: “Why are you digging up the garden?” Each of K.C.’s answers lead to another question as the young boy shares his new...

I love the title - K.C. & Kayla's Science Corner: Matter! What’s the Matter? It certainly doesn’t immediately strike someone that this might be a book about something scientific. But it is. Carol Basdeo has written a fun story, complete with colorful, exciting illustrations by...

Kurt, Gert, Jazmine and Bagel: A Halloween Nightmare by Irene Dolnick is the story of four puppies who travel on the train together to Phoenix. They arrive at their station and Bagel finds a Halloween Store. All four pups are drawn inside. They get a...

Kintu and the Fairy Bee is a children’s picture book written by Mary Beth Numbers and illustrated by Kabuye Ivan. This is a retelling of the story by Mrs. George Baskerville, which was first published in 1922, and was based on the oral storytelling traditions...

King of the Hill: A Child’s Personal History of the Great Depression by Nelda Bedford Gaydou is a collection of family stories from the Great Depression. It follows the adventures of Benji, the youngest of eleven children, and his share-cropping family as they move from...

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,...