Kara Kotecki introduces readers to Mae, a girl full of emotions. She describes feelings by using various examples so that children can relate to the level of intensity. While it is normal to feel deeply, you should keep your emotions in their rightful place and...

If She Can Do It, I Can, Too!, written by De'shawna Yamini and illustrated by Ayzha Middlebrooks, is a children's educational and inspirational picture book that highlights the accomplishments of black women in history that have shaped an entire nation. The book dives straight in...

How does a Jacaranda tree who struggles with feeling alone adjust to being in a place where no one seems to like her? When a stranger takes Jaca to a new place when she’s a seed, she grows slowly but not as vibrantly as was...

The Zoe-Chai Seed (Pearls of Wisdom – Book 3) was written by Catherine Ann Russell and illustrated by Brooke Connor. What a wonderful way to teach children about loyalty and true friendship with a story about a kingdom of animals of all sorts who live...

When you were a child, how many times did you hear the question, “What will you be when you grow up?” Kristina Schoettle deals with that question in The Restless Caterpillar: Heavenly Allegories for Children. The little caterpillar sees other animals doing things he would...

My Friend Toothy: How to Practice Good Dental Hygiene by Stacey Laviolette will get your kids brushing their teeth. Piper is a little girl who needed to see the dentist, who found some spots on her teeth. Piper had not brushed her teeth all week,...

Our NICU Journey, by Sarah Immonen Ward, is a short, beautifully illustrated children’s book about the author unexpectedly giving birth to twin girls at 28 weeks gestation and her and her husband's long experience in the neonatal intensive care unit. It shows that NICU journeys,...

Death is a fact of life. Grief is hard. Wilfredo A Vargas addresses these difficult issues in Dad Rides in Heaven Now! When a child goes through grief, they often feel all alone. They feel they are the only ones who have experienced such an...

Tessa liked school until Luke started teasing her about being short. Teasing is a type of bullying that most children experience and most children wish they could make it stop. This book presents an interesting approach to figuring out how to stop the teasing and...

Stuck Duck by Brooke Vitale is a cute story about a duck who starts out having a great day until something unexpected happens. Duck is feeling happy, and he picks a flower, content to take it on a walk with him, but there are some...