Being Zelda by Russell Irving follows the story of Zelda, a mantis shrimp, who is looking for more than what her burrow holds. She longs to know where bluefin tuna come from, where they go, and the places they see. The moon sets off a...

A family of stringed instruments loves nothing more than playing music together. Their different shapes and sizes add beautiful highs and lows to their tunes, forming smooth melodies. While they are playing together on a windy day, a storm blows over the stands and sends...

Silkie lays a perfectly beautiful egg and announces it to the other chickens in the barn. Dottie points out that her egg is perfect but not a circle like Silkie thinks. To keep Silkie from worrying that her egg is not as perfect as she...

Elizabeth Everett has taken an old and beloved nursery rhyme and changed it into a scientific observation with Twinkle, Twinkle, Daytime Star. A star? A star that twinkles in the daytime? Then we realize, of course, it's the Sun. And so we begin to explore...

My Protest: Please Don't Erase My History! is a thought-provoking children's picture book by Linda Gaston-Bessellieu, Tawana Bessellieu, and Jaliyah Bessellieu-Webb. It follows the story of a first-grader, Jaliyah, the co-author's namesake, who is passionate about art and social studies. Jaliyah learns about important Black...

On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America, the first Black man in American history elected as the president. Yet, as monumental as the occasion was, America still has not elected a woman president. In The President...

Books often open a door to a world full of possibilities. You could be busy climbing high towers and saving the world with your cool superpowers. You could be teaching a new puppy some tricks. Building a grand tree house with rickety sticks. Flying off...

Do you love going on adventures? Then meet Rynnie Roo, a kangaroo that loves going on adventures and making new friends. How does she do this? Rynnie Roo has been to many places and this time around she is going to visit Glen Rose, a...

The Wobbly Wheeled Wagon by Juliet Mandelzweig, illustrated by Jess Bronte, is about a particular wobbly shopping cart in the supermarket that often gets abandoned in the parking lot when shoppers realize its defect. All the shiny, undamaged wagons would often tease, bully, and laugh...

This Llama Can Write by Patty DeDurr is a children’s picture book about a charming little goat and a llama with dysgraphia. Dysgraphia makes it harder for Cria the llama to write, but that doesn’t stop the little trusty goat, Kid, from helping her. With...