Many children want to buy things that their families can’t afford. Ethan’s Big Business Plan, written and illustrated by Yu-Ting Hung and Ethan Hsu, shows the basic steps necessary to start your own business, to earn your own money if you are a child who...

A mouse family lived in an animal refuge park at the end of a friendly forest. Mr. and Mrs. Mouse had seven children and they never had enough food to feed their big family. A tiger lived on the other side of the wall and...

The little girl loves to go to her grandmother's flower shop after school to play and help there in the story Fancy Flowers by Faye by Mark M. Dean. She snips off the bottom of one sunflower and it reminds her of the sun, bright...

Grandma Eileen was expecting a surprise. She ran to the door when the doorbell rang and there was a mason jar with a gingham-covered lid on her porch. She looked inside and found a long wooden stick with a jade-colored jewel attached to it by...

My Welcome Book by Diana Smith begins by welcoming a baby into the world and telling the child that their journey on this beautiful earth has just begun. A baby is always special and every child is born with a soul that is unique and...

A Raptor Ate My Homework is the first book of The Backpack Dinosaur series by Julian Michael Carver. It is a short story suitable for middle schoolers. Andy and Anna Saunders are both fourth graders. While Anna is a math whiz, Andy’s head is full...

I loved Betsy’s Philadelphia Adventure: From the Betsy Ross House to the University of Pennsylvania and I think children will, too! The story by authors Marcia Sawyer and Sandy Mayer is a scavenger hunt that takes place in Philadelphia. Betsy the red squirrel receives an...

How do we see ourselves? Unique? Individual? Beautiful? Actually, we’re all beautiful. Like the night sky shining above us, each one of us is different, but still unique, individual and beautiful. Even a fruit, like a pear, can look different from the other fruits on...

Tode the Turtle did not have fun playing baseball. He was slow and had never batted. Harriet and Eddie were the two team captains and they both could hit well and catch behind the plate. Tode was always the last player to be chosen though...

From Tree to Twelve: A Counting Book from Noses to Toes-es (Nick and Millie) by Dr. Qooz is a fascinating book that makes counting fun and entertaining for young readers. Nick and Millie the Monkey make learning to count from one to twelve a wonderful...