The Little Dragon by Sheri Fink is a charming story that held me captivated from beginning to end. There are no concessions made where language is concerned – words like whimsical, expressive, sensation, stomach, barge, and taught cannot be read phonetically. It is a picture...

It was Casey's first day at school and she was scared. She was starting a new school in the middle of the year. Casey was afraid just thinking how the day would be and the more she thought about it, her fears became more intense....

Tony the Theatre Dog: Puttin’ on a Show explores the world of theatre – well, specifically, what goes on backstage. Tony takes readers on a tour and introduces different important people who help run the show. While doing so, an unexpected problem unfolds before the...

It’s not easy being a new person to a group. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, Blue, a border collie dog, watches sadly as his family drives off and leaves him forever. He’s now a homeless refugee, looking for a safe place: a place...

Meet Professor Petey, the bold and true explorer in the story The World According to Professor Petey by Stephen K. Scott. Professor Petey loved visiting libraries because reading books fired his imagination and took him on a magic carpet ride. He thought he was a...

Meet the TyrantoCrankaTsuris, the cranky dinosaur who survived the Dark Ages and became the oldest ancestor of mankind. The Last Surviving Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris by Steven Joseph is a story set around the Jewish culture where everyone in the neighborhood got together and spoke about...

The Bully Who Learned To Love by Claudia Villarreal is a good book for both adults and children to read as it tackles the relevant topic of bullying. The bully likes to be hurtful and make others cry. He likes to scoff when he sees...

The Adventures of Kenzie-Moo is an educational adventure storybook for children written by Tanya Savva and illustrated by Emma Stuart. Kenzie-Moo doesn’t see with her eyes because she is blind, but her world is richly informed by each of her other senses; her ears, nose,...

Otter is the music conductor. He carries the baton, swishing it in time to the music sheet that lies before him on the music stand. An orchestra of animals and their wonderful instruments of choice is preparing to perform, all numerically set. There’s one lemur...

Sam’s sea otter family has a very special treasure. It’s a stone. Not just any stone, but one that is perfectly smooth and curved in just the right spots. It’s been handed down for generations because it’s the ideal stone to serve clams, mussels and...