When Moggie met Froggie by Julia Stebbing is the story of an unlikely friendship between a cat and a frog. Moggie is a rather scruffy-looking ginger cat, out looking for a meal when he happens to see Froggie sitting on a log. Froggie comments on...

Belle Brown packs a lot into her latest book, Nia the Narwhal Explores the Christmas Ocean. At the beginning of the book, Brown includes information on sight words and their importance. She has highlighted these words in bold throughout the story. Nia the Narwhal loves...

I Don’t Want a Pet! by Harrison Martin is about a little girl named Jen who is lonely. Her parents decide that they should buy her a pet as a companion. Surprisingly, Jen tells them she does not want a pet. She proceeds to emphasize...

Ben makes the best buttermilk biscuits. He’s entered them every year in the Best Bread Baking Contest and every year his biscuits come in second place, after Sofía’s Abuela’s Mexican sweet bread. Why does he bother? His dad suggests he experiments with his recipe, volunteering...

The Great Race for the Lunar Calendar by Valerie Tsen tells the story of the Chinese Zodiac with the occurrence of a Great Race where twelve animals raced for placement on the calendar. The story is set long ago in ancient China during a time...

Have you ever woken up and thought, 'I want something different for breakfast?' That is exactly what happens to Candace Margaux in Chocolate Pudding for Breakfast by Daniel Sassoon. She is grumpy when she wakes up and does not want eggs, porridge, cereal, or toast....

Mongo was a small creature who loved to roam free and lived on a remote island in the middle of the sea. He was small and had blue hair, black eyes, and a red nose with bones sticking out both sides. He was the smallest...

Bethany Stahl has added another excellent title to her Save the Earth series. Save the Scraps is about composting and it starts with Alex and Mateo eating a healthy fruit snack. After they have finished, Mateo is ready to throw away the apple cores and...

All the animals lived in peace and harmony in the forest, and their days were spent playing games and collecting food. One day a loud noise shook the ground, and the bunny and the squirrel felt a big monster had moved in. The word spread...

There’s more than one way to fly. You can be a bird or a plane and soar through the sky. Or, you can be someone really special and do something really amazing, and then your spirit will be soaring high. Lulu is a young frog....