The Grumpy Catfish by Mary Esparza-Vela relates the story of a lonely catfish who is bullied by younger fish. Grumpy lived alone on the bottom of the ocean. All his friends were gone, captured by fisherman. Grumpy had advised them not to grab a hook,...

Dotti was a happy little girl. She enjoyed doing lots of things like reading and painting. The only problem was Dotti liked to take her time about everything she did. She took her time getting up in the morning. She took her time answering the...

The Little Encouragers - Ellie: New Town, New Mom, written by mother and daughter authors Mariah and Tallula Sebastien, talks about Ellie and her magical friends. After her parents’ divorce, Ellie and her mom moved to a new town. She also had to go to...

The Good Night Knight by Josh Will is a humorous, beautifully illustrated book written in rhyme. A knight who guards the city at night keeps the townspeople safe and happy. He knows each of them and treats them like friends. They repay him with...

The Verbal Bully is a title from The Brown Bear and Oofie series for young readers. Both written and illustrated by Masami S.C., the tale of The Verbal Bully deals with the harshness of a bully’s words. As Brown Bear celebrates the beautiful day outside,...

The Great Camp Escape is a children’s picture book story written by R.C. Wittig. Cameron, his sister, Bridget, and their cousin, Quinn, loved playing outdoors by their grandmother’s house. There were so many things to do, and they always had so much fun. Then one...

Three Sneezes in a Row—what could a picture book with that title be about? Cassie Kitzmiller has you guessing from the beginning. Ten sounds that you can hear coming from your body are shared with the reader through a counting poem and action verb after...

All Georgie wants for Christmas is a new pair of skates. His old ones are too small and he loves skating on the pond when it freezes over. But times are tough and there’s not much money to buy gifts. Papa even said that Santa...

The Fed-Up Cow is a children’s picture book, written in rhyme by Peta Lemon and illustrated by Maria Dasic Todoric. Unhappy with being a boring brown cow which does nothing all day except moo, Hilda the cow decides to take affirmative action. Initially trying to...

The City of Smogg is choked by a thick blanket of pollution. The people who live there walk around like zombies. Animals and plants are non-existent there. It is outside this place that Calvin Callioni, the ringmaster of the most splendidly spectacular circus of Starzborough,...