Kangaroo Max Travels the Arctic, written by Chris Sunray and illustrated by Phillipa Haskins, is a children's picture book and the second in the Life Lessons from the world’s smartest animals and nature series, preceded by book one, Kangaroo Max Travels Australia. In this installment,...

Periwinkle Picks the Pickle by Lauren Harrell is a delightful and wonderfully illustrated story. It is the tale of Peter Pickle and Princess Periwinkle. Every year, people from the Kingdom of Cucumber bring their pickles, hoping that one of theirs will be chosen as the...

Sadoni Squirrel: Superhero- A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story by Once Upon a Dance is a whimsical children’s story with easy dance movements that anyone can try. Sadoni is a lively squirrel who believes that she can fly. She is also a real superhero who has...

Part of the PenPal Gal’s series, Friends Forever by Julie Thiessen follows Reese on a vacation. Reese, who, along with her family, spends much of the summer months camping at Lake Shore Retreat, enjoys an annual week-long kick-off at the campground. This year, though, sees...

Meet January is a picture book written and illustrated by April Martin that has admirable emotional range. January loves to snuggle up in bed and loves her sleeping bag and having pretend campfires indoors. In other words, January loves being snuggly warm and pursuing all...

What are you grateful for? Are you grateful for a warm house in which to live, food to eat, water to drink, toys to play with, books to read? There are so many things to be grateful for. I bet you can make a list...

It’s so easy to get comfortable letting others do things for us. That’s what happened to Scarlett. Now her Mummy has given her a big challenge: a list to follow to see what things she can do by herself. Scarlett is worried she won’t be...

A small cloud lands on earth and turns into a snowball named Snowy. Snowy wanders alone, trying to become friends with the animals in the forest, but they all ignore the snowball. It ends up meeting Lily, a young girl from the nearby village, and...

Old man Jack and his unlikely companion, St. Sebastian the rat, travel the world together. They’ve seen many places and met many people but wherever they go Jack is met with ridicule and spite. This is all because of his strange beard. Jack becomes dejected...

What would you do if your very special grandfather went missing? Could you find him? This is the dilemma presented to Logan and his partner, Emily. They’re great sleuths, with an uncanny ability to find things – and people. They’re part of a secret task...