Peanut Butter and Donner: A Curious Chorus by Erin Rosenblum is a unique, rhyming story about two pets who were rescued by their family. Donner is a blue parakeet who was found in an ice cream shop. Peanut Butter is a little brown rabbit who...

What Will I Be Today? This question activates Sailor’s superpower every day. Sailor is a young girl who lives a pretty normal life. She goes to school, watches TV, reads books, picks her nose, and plays with her toys. But when she is in her...

In Saanvi and Prakash Learn Together by Sheena Sharma, the two siblings discover that they do need homework help from their parents, and that working together can be fun. Saanvi and Prakash have opposite attitudes to homework. Saanvi is excited to work on the assigned...

Preethi Saravanakumar’s The Work of Art on the Wall is about a boy named Gary, whose parents give him anything he wants. But he’s sad that he doesn’t have any siblings to play with like all his friends. He spends his days wishing he were...

Water is a very important part of our lives. It’s here one minute and disappears mysteriously in the next minute. In Milagros Wallace’s Gregorina and Her Glass of Water, a young girl, Gregorina, learns the importance and growing mystery of water. She also learns it...

The Green Pumpkin by Jen Kennedy tells the story of Emmy, a girl who goes on a school trip to a farm. Soon, there will be a pumpkin contest, so Farmer Jim lets each student take one. Everyone runs to get theirs, always choosing the...

In Pam Sears's Leo’s First Field Trip, a young boy reaches a major childhood milestone. We watch little Leo get on a school bus for his first-ever National Park visit. Joined by his parents, friends, and teacher, Leo tours the wilderness with a diligent park...

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

The Moon and Me is a dreamy, magical, read-aloud counting book for young children. The gentle rhythms of the text by Nielle P Marques track nighttime animals in the sky, on trees, on fences, on land, in the woods, and in the creek. Flying herons,...

In Obesseus Operation Gravy Blockade by D.T. Tucker, the grand opening of the brand-new news building, Snackland Press, rapidly turns into pandemonium. The place splits into feuding factions, and everything is chaotic. The “No Fun Squad” is the stiff faction that barricades their territory and...