It is a day like many others in the Windy City when the story of Stay on Track! by Michael A. Brown begins. Passengers are waiting on the platform for the arrival of their train when Eddie, the train engineer, steps on board his train...

Stripes: The Friendly Penguin by Seth Clay is about a little striped penguin who lives with his family and friends in Patagonia. One day while fishing, he gets stuck in an oil slick and becomes lost. He eventually washes up on shore in Brazil where...

Kubwa the hippopotamus saw Zuri the giraffe as he peered above the river water level. Zuri had long legs, a neck that stretched high, and was skinny. Even her nose was skinny, and Kubwa called her skinny. Zuri was annoyed and she told Kubwa that...

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...

In Show and Tell is CLOSED by Tanja Kobasic, we are introduced to a sad, scared, and angry boy named Beau. He feels this way because there is an infectious germ that has spread all over the world, making it impossible for him to go...

Dads are wonderful. They love their little girls and they enjoy spending time with them. But, one thing dads are not very good at doing is a little girl’s hair. Especially if it’s long and thick. As a little girl, I don’t think I could...

Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman is a delightful, middle-school-targeted adventure that finds three different but uniquely linked young pre-teens attending summer camp at Camp Inch, Michigan. Darby is a talented, young equestrienne but she is threatened by a recurring stutter that her mother...

Sibling love is a lifelong friendship and it is an indescribable bond. Readers' sibling love could be a little or a big brother or sister. No matter what the type of siblings, the bond is always unique and precious. Sibling love is all about expressing...

Bull Lee the Blowfish was the new student at Undadussee Elementary School and he announced himself to be bad as he entered the classroom. The other children in the class got scared except Simon, who was good at self-control and followed the theory of Stop,...

Scamper and the Magic of Appreciation written by Michal Y. Noah, Ph.D. and her daughter Loren Noah, and illustrated by Favreau, is an entertaining picture book in verse about how daily self-affirmations can positively impact your outlook on life. Focusing on the daily appreciation of...