What do George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, and the Marching Crimson Pipers Band all have in common? They are all affiliated with the history of Tuskegee. George Washington Carver was a botanist, who joined Booker T Washington at Tuskegee University and is known for his...

The Nile Crocodile Invades Florida by Katharine Benelli Coggeshall is an informative and educational book that speaks about how Nile crocodiles got from their native home to the United States. It is a must-read for any child who is interested in wildlife and crocodiles and...

The outstanding illustrations in Who Laid The Egg? will attract readers who’ll want to know which eggs were laid by which animal. Author Audrey Sauble has created a wonderful, but simple story of animals and the eggs they lay. Who Laid The Egg? is a...

I Am a Butterfly: A Story About Big, Beautiful Changes is a nonfiction educational picture book for children written by Sally Stone. The main character is a beautiful monarch butterfly, but she didn’t always look like she does now. At first, she was a tiny...

Are you thinking about getting a dog? Need help deciding what breed would be best for you? Dogs: A Kid's Book of Dog Breeds by Eve Heidi Bine-Stock is an excellent introduction to dogs for children. This book contains the types of dogs, where they...

Carole P. Roman and Mateya Markova have created a delightful children’s book in If You Were Me and Lived in… Viking Europe. I have two grandsons who love Vikings, and this book brings many elements of history and culture together in a way that makes...

Four Days of Pongal: The Harvest Festival of South India by Lakshmi Narayani throws light on the Pongal Festival, known as a harvest festival, celebrated by people in the southern part of India who speak the Tamil language. The book discusses all aspects of the...

Imagine living hundreds of years ago in the ancient African country of Mali. Imagine the clothes you’d wear, the house you’d live in, the family you’d have, the food you’d eat. Imagine being grown up at the age of twelve, and, if you were a...

We get to meet Little Miss History in the storybook The Adventures Of Little Miss History: Volume 1 by Barbara Ann Mojica, who is so named because of her keenness to learn about things in the past. She has traveled everywhere by land, sea, and...

Perseverance. That’s what it takes. Facing all of life’s difficulties, all those hurdles thrown in our path, what we need is perseverance. We can’t give up. We have to dream, dream big, and reach for our dreams with a determination that nothing will stop us....