Sam The Speedy Sloth is a cute, fun picture book for younger readers. The rhyming couplets were a nice addition and helped make the reader become more engaged. The plot flowed along at a fast pace, meaning it never became dull. There is also a...

Imagine a star with only four points. Have you ever seen one like that? What would you do if you did see it? Would you tease it and torment it because it was different? That’s what the other five-pointed stars did. Stella had only four...

Coco, a lonely black rooster, lived in Aruba off the coast of South America. Coco was separated from his family during a terrible storm and he grew up alone at the Arikok NationalPark. Coco wished for a family and friends and he wanted to have...

Scrub is a little bar of soap that lives on a pink dish in the bathroom. He loves jumping into action during a bath where he slips and slides until every part is clean. He might enjoy bath time but what he enjoys the most...

Sending Balloons to Heaven by Lindsey Coker Luckey is a story about a young girl who lost her grandmother recently. Her mother tells her that heaven is a beautiful place and that she’ll see her grandmother again someday. This makes the child sad because even...

Digger liked digging in the dirt around the base of a large tree in the Schmidt family's backyard. It was his love for dirt and digging that made his parents name him Digger. He would dig around the tree more than once and Mr. Schmidt...

Speranza’s Sweater, written by Marcy Pusey and illustrated by Beatriz Mello, is a story about foster homes and adoption from the point of view of a girl named Speranza. Speranza is now grown up and has a child of her own who asks her about...

We all have our fears. There are times when we’re too frightened to try. But, with courage, we may try and then we feel good afterward, realizing that the greater fear is really the fear of not trying at all. Ramone is a baby ruby-throated...

“Ah, what adorable animals,” will be a child’s first reaction when opening the book Sloan the Sloth Loves Being Different. The cuddly, huggable forest creatures fill the pages with big eyes and colorful tones. Author Misty Black has created another wonderful story to add to...

Sasha Savvy Starts It Up is an educational novel for middle-schoolers and preteens written by Sasha Ariel Alston. Sasha’s excitement over starting the new school year as a sixth-grader became even more intense when her mom announced there was going to be a hackathon at...