Bedtime can be a challenging time for parents and kids. Animals Over the Bridge: A Bedtime Story Routine by Janine Maxwell is a soothing, rhythmic story that will make bedtime more pleasant. Along with the gentle rhyming jungle story, an accompanying wind-down activity adds value...

ZaZa is excited to learn in her virtual class and guess what, today is World Kindness Day! ZaZa knows the answer so she excitedly shouts that kindness is sharing things like a cupcake. Her teacher admires her enthusiasm, and for the class's homework assignment, they...

Life is full of possibilities and what-ifs. You can be anything you want to be if only you believe in yourself. You can be an astronaut or a chef, a writer or a judge, or even a scientist. You might be different in how you...

Wibby loves playing pretend with her friends, and when they give her a superhero costume to wear, she falls in love with it, pretending to have superpowers. But when she finds herself in three situations in which sea creatures or people need her help, Wibby...

Jolene: Adventures of a Junk Food Queen is a fantastic book. It is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Alice and Wonderland. Creative, fun, and informative. When I first picked up the book, I was unsure how any author could make clean eating enjoyable or...

Owl Be Seeing You (A Grumpy the Iguana and Green Parrot Adventure) by Susan Marie Chapman is a picture book intended for ages 3 to 8. The book is about Screech Owl, who comes to a park to meet the female owl with whom he...

In The Pinch Pixie by Heather Dagostino, we are introduced to a beautiful pixie with a very important job. It’s her job to make sure that you aren’t afraid to get a vaccine that is much needed. Vaccines were developed many years ago by a...

In How To Potty Train A Unicorn by Hailee Oman, we are introduced to a young girl who is at her wit's end with her pet unicorn. She’s desperately trying to get her to go potty in the toilet but the unicorn refuses and fights...

A challenging event in some children's lives is when they become older siblings for the first time. Anita Zurbrugg has put a humorous twist on this life passage in her book My Brother is an Alien. In this rhyming text, a young boy is sure...

Donna McFarland’s Duck and Friends Go Into Orbit delivers more than the title promises. Each of its five chapters is well-rounded enough to be separate stories. As well, the book explores a few sites with which even adult readers might be unfamiliar. One example is...