“Why didn’t anyone want to eat at the restaurant on Makemake?” Young readers love a good riddle, but for this one, perhaps it’s a good idea to learn something about a dwarf planet named Makemake. And perhaps one should learn how to pronounce it: “Mahk-ay-Mahk-ay.”...

Two Wins for Wiley, written by Karen Patricia Nespoli and Caitlin Bree Kennedy, and illustrated by Carissa Harris, is a children's picture book that revolves around a young boy named Wiley and his chronic stomach pain. The book begins with Wiley describing persistent belly aches...

Book of Bad Manners by Laura Teste is a book of the best bad manners you can imagine! Mom drops Jazz and her older brother off at Uncle Mark’s for dinner, leaving them with a reminder to use good manners. She also wants a full...

K.J. Field will make starry-eyed astronomers out of all of us with 5 Little Dwarf Planets: A Rhyming Solar System Book. In this picture book, we learn about the five most famous dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Makemake, Eris, Haumea, and Pluto. Some...

Prop is a small firefighting propeller-driven plane that lives at Zik International Airport, and every day he sees military aircraft going on special missions. Little Prop wishes he could be like them and make a difference. One day he meets Oz, a special kind of...

I Am Different, I Am Great is a children's picture book written by Melody Kiang and illustrated by Jinulz. Little Mei Mei loves playing and learning with her friends at her kindergarten, but her accent sometimes makes it hard for her friends to understand her....

In Lacie’s Moon by Natcole Staskiewicz, we are introduced to a little girl whose mother is sad after losing two important people in her life. Lacie doesn’t quite understand death and it makes her upset to see her mother sad. She tells the moon that...

Diego the Smelly Dog by A.G. Russo tells the story of a little girl named Ava who desperately wants to take home a stray dog that she and her grandfather saw on a walk. Her grandfather and her mom know it is risky to take...

Appalachian heritage, family bonds, and culinary adventure meet in Pawpaw is My Favorite Flavor! by Kaitlin Kulich and Laura Dobrota. Henry is excited about the possibilities of learning as he travels to Athens, Ohio to visit his grandpa. Once there, Grandpa shows Henry an odd-shaped...

Maggie’s Encore: A Heart-Warming Tale of a Music-Loving Shelter Dog by Danielle LaRosa is a beautiful picture book for children. Encore the singing and dancing dog lives in a shelter and dreams of finding his forever home. But Encore isn't like any other dog, and...