Mermaids on a Mission to Save the Oceans is an environmental story book for children, grades K-3, written by Janet Balletta and illustrated by Alyssa Figueroa and Alexander C. Appello. Balletta is a second-grade teacher and the author of books about the environment for children....

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm: A Self-help Kid's Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger, Worry, and Stress by Lori Lite is an interactive and fun coloring book in which children get to see the Angry Octopus using great techniques to express his...

Swoosh and Slide Search and Glide by Gail Kamer follows the adventures of a cute little alligator called Bess as she explores the river bank, endlessly searching for something special. Her journey takes her along the riverbank and we have to look for clues to...

Sean Wants To Be Messi by Tania Preminger is the adorable story of Sean, a second grader, who dreams of being like Messi. While doing his homework with his mom, Sean tells his mother that he does not need math as he is going to...

Hey Buddy, I’m your Body! by Agnes Deglon is an educational and insightful book and is the first in the series of Kids' Questions about Life. The book gives readers an introduction about life and how to take care of themselves. The book opens with...

Kids will love Lucy and Chester’s Amazing Adventures! by G. Brian Benson. Told in rhyme and beautifully illustrated, each page holds delight for the young reader. Lucy is a Dora, the Explorer kind of girl. She and her stuffed bunny, Chester, go to sleep each...

Golden Sparkles: An Introduction to Mindfulness is an educational picture book for children written by Catarina R. Peterson and illustrated by Mateya Arkova. In her preface to this book, Peterson discusses what is known as mindfulness and how being mindful helps us learn “to pay...

The Little Miss Grubby Toes series, written by Eddie Price and illustrated by Mark Wayne Adams, depicts a series of escapades and scrapes that Little Miss Grubby Toes herself (so named because of her reluctance to wear shoes) gets into … and out of. These...

Mrs. Weber falls ill and the students get a substitute teacher, Mr. Potter, in Tales of a Substitute Teacher Volume 2: A Magician’s Tricks Take Over Room 6 by Sheri Powrozek. The children like Mrs. Weber; she had been an assistant in the school earlier,...

Poor Teddy: The True Story of a Poodle Named After a Noodle is the incredible story of shelter adoption, written by Lisa DePriest and illustrated by Ignacio G. Abandoned and tied to a shelter door, Teddy growls out of fear when strangers approach him. Having...