Authors Carol McCloud and Caryn Butzke do a beautiful job of weaving a story of how an individual can be happy using the letters A to Z as bucket fillers. They carefully explain at the beginning of the book that people fill others’ buckets every...

Christmas in Paradise by Jaime Nicole Hughes is a delightful story for children revolving around the theme of Christmas. The book takes you down Memory Lane with Jamie as she describes her wonderful childhood trips with her family to Florida during the Christmas season. The...

Ruby, or Rubilito, is a hummingbird who lives in the United States in the state of Texas. Come follow him on his journey from birth to adulthood and learn the lifestyle, duties, and adventures of an everyday hummingbird. Read Ruby’s story and see how you...

The Power of Two by Lori J. Sawicki is a beautiful story of family, friendship and bullying. Jamie Corman is a sixth grader who gets kicked out of Sadie's Too Cool Club. She finds herself being ignored and bullied by Sadie and her friends. She...

Paris Hop!, written by Margie Blumberg and illustrated by Renée Andriani, is a story about Grandma taking her granddaughter to the Eiffel Tower on a visit to Paris. They are determined to see how the city looks with the sun shining over it, but they...

A delightful book of proverbs, Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs by Captain Edward Zellem is written in a language and culture little known to English language readers outside of Afghanistan. (It also includes helpful comments on pronunciation and the Dari language) Unlike the typical...

Little Kicker is not a very happy donkey because he has to get his donkey shots, and he is scared. Tony the Pony chimes in and starts telling Little Kicker all about shots. That did not help very much, because Little Kicker did not want...

In Gwen Dandridge’s novel, The Stone Lions, history, mathematics, magic, and intrigue combine to create a fascinating read for preteens. Twelve year old Ara lives out her life under the watchful eye of Suleiman in the harem of her father’s palace, Alhambra. Ara’s life is...

Rainbows to Snowflakes: Activities for Sometimes Snow Falls in the Summer is a non-fiction educational book for teachers and parents of young children written by Deb Troehler. This is a companion book to a book about a young girl, Ella, entitled Sometimes Snow Falls in...

Children are naturally curious but sometimes the attention span doesn't match the subject. Aurelia Tan and Nicholas Liem (illustrator) have mastered it all in their wonderful book, JJ's Science Adventure: Magnets. Through a cartoon adventure, magnets and how they work are explained in the story....