It’s that time of year. The children are excited about Christmas and, in some schools, they are learning the true meaning of Christmas. Many teachers are busy preparing the young people to put on plays and special events to entertain the parents. A Nativity play...

Papa Can Fix It! (My Truly Most Favorite Fluffy Friend Book 4) by Pamela Tomlin captures the magic of the Christmas season. Papa is going to pull Emma on the sled. While a few of her friends want to go with her, Banjo Bear, Bunny...

Meet Goti, the shiny red bus, and Vivek, the dusty coal train, in the storybook The Dusty Train’s Sweet Surprise: A Lesson in Kindness by Subhash Kommuru. They were both very hardworking but Goti always made fun of Vivek, saying he was faster than Vivek...

The Good Mood Book has a great message for young children. The idea of a child going to bed upset and dreaming of Good Mood Gorki has a lot of positives. The Gorki was cute, entertaining and delivered a good message. The illustrations were everything...

The little girl in the story Who Are You by Shanti Prem is free spirited and does not want to be tamed. She says she came into this world clear minded and free, and no one has any right to clip her wings. She wants...

Captain Green protects Planet Earth from pollution and grime in the story Captain Green and the Plastic Scene by Evelyn Bookless. He aims his green beam at litter and foul-smelling fumes. One day he gets a call from Dolphin, who is all tangled up in...

Kyle has no money to buy his dad a birthday gift and so he decides to sell his dad’s old shoes in the story I’m Selling My Dad’s Shoes (My Crazy Story Series) by Daniel Georges. He takes them from the shoe cupboard and sneaks...

Miss Rachel is going to teach the kids about pumpkins on Monday morning in the storybook Justin’s Pumpkin Patch Adventure by Tamika L. Prince. She takes out some pumpkin seeds and tells them how a farmer plants the seeds in the ground. Pumpkins need sun...

Beeswing Makes Friends is a children’s picture book written by James Bruner and Elizabeth Stevens, and illustrated by Daniela Frongia. Long ago, before there were buildings and cities and the time we all think of as familiar, Beeswing played and danced and sang with his...

Felice the Christmas Fairy by Irene Mathias, with full-color illustrations by Anja Uhren, is a wonderful story for young children (and adults who are children at heart.) Told in jaunty rhyme and accompanied by luscious artwork, it tells about Felice, a Christmas tree-topper fairy who...