Claire is a soccer player. Her team has their last game of the season today. Claire is both excited and nervous about the game. She has not scored a goal all season and is feeling a little bit saddened by that fact. She really wants...

The Small Sports Take The Field, written by Matthew Damman and illustrated by Patty Eisenbraun, is a wonderful children’s book that teaches the importance of hard work, teamwork and positive thinking. One day, Jake is sitting by an overgrown field and daydreams about scoring a...

The Adventures of Lorenzo the Bear: Encounter at Jellyfish Cove is a children’s book written and illustrated by Carmela Dutra. Lorenzo practices his sword-fighting every day, and the other animals always used to wonder why he did so. He’d explain that he was practicing in...

There is a watermark on the cover of The Moth and the Sun. If you look closely, you can see the outstretched wings of a moth. We tend to take moths for granted. In fact, many of us don't really like them. But they are...

The World is My Drum by Amber Richards is a delightful little picture book. A small boy, Hudson, loves to play with his drums. In fact, he loves to play more with his drumsticks, creating rhythms on all kinds of different surfaces around the house,...

The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street (A Springer Spaniel Mystery) is written by Nancy T. Lucas. Scout, a Springer Spaniel, enjoys living at home with his dad and mumma. He likes having dog parties and playing with a few neighbourhood dogs, except for those...

Eleven-year-old Jenny thinks her mother pays more attention to her older brother, Brian, and little sister, Janine. She misses her father who is hospitalised, and often quarrels with her mother who never listens to her. Jenny believes she is a misfit in the family. She...

The Little Ladybug is a rhyming, illustrated storybook by Amelia May. It tells the tale of a lonely ladybug who is looking for a friend. The ladybug meets a lot of different bugs on his journey, but most of them are too busy or self-important...

The Little Green Astronaut by Victor Alfaro is a children’s story illustrated by Christopher Alfaro. The story centers around a young lizard named Green who stows away on a NASA truck, which in turns takes him inside a rocket ready for launch. Green tags along...

The Way We Move by Terri Kelley is a sweet book that does a wonderful job conveying an important concept. It will catch the hearts of those who “move differently” or know of those who do. The main character falls and skins his knees. Even...