"All the Awake Animals are Almost Asleep" is an exquisitely illustrated bedtime book. The story starts out with a mother trying to get her little one to lay down his head and sleep. When he says he is not sleepy, his mother tells him that...

Todd Parr’s "The Thankful Book" encourages children to think of things to be thankful for every day. And he offers a list of things we can all be thankful for, just to get them started. Some are sweet: “I am thankful for my ears because...

"The Adventures of Keeno and Ernest: The Banana Tree” by Maggie van Galen is a cautionary tale about the importance of following rules. Keeno is a mischievous monkey who craves adventure. Ernest is a wise young elephant, and Keeno’s best friend. When Keeno tries to...

“Shoes . . . Are You My Mate?” by Jennifer Moran and Camille Brown is a nonsensical children’s book in which one of the shoes in a pair of soccer cleats, Lefty, believes it is a better, more serious soccer player than the other shoe,...

“Who Lives in the Sea?: Ocean Animals of Hawaii,” written by Monika Mira, is a beautiful children’s story that will be read and enjoyed over and over. Baby asked Mommy who lives in the sea in Hawaii and she replied that a little rock crab...

"Mandy Princess of La La Land" is a fable/fantasy for children. Mandy and her cousins are very much attached to their abuela, which is Spanish for grandmother, who reads to them and tells them stories of Cuba, where she had grown up. She tells them...

“Small Hangers” by Amy H. Fraher is something of an enigma; it is a children's book written for parents. Not unlike the 1986 classic “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “Small Hangers” is destined to draw out a veritable flood of tears from the aching...

"Alphabeti-cool" by Rebecca Bielawski has taken alphabet books to a new level, by incorporating both the upper and lower case letters on each page. Seeing it on these pages makes me wonder why EVERY alphabet book doesn't do this? Kids have to learn more than...

We all know what the ‘Terrible Twos’ refers to, and Kanika Wilkins has so vividly captured this phrase in her new book, “Terrible, Too.” On the day Nikki turned two, she not only turned two years-old, but she went into that terrible stage too. She...

"What Daddy Did Today: A Father's Bedtime Story" by Walter Wally, and illustrated very nicely by Judith Bicking, is a vividly colorful, very imaginative tale of derring-do for a father to read to his children at bedtime. It details such heroics as saving a lion...