Billy Bloom’s Walter and the Wallet offers young readers a heartwarming opportunity to examine the constructs of honesty, conscience, and the power of a good deed. In its pages, young Walter Whippingdale, mired in a bout of self-pity after a less-than-perfect day including romantic rejection...

For most kids, playtime is the best part of the day, but what could make that time even better? In When We Play by Vanessa Guevara, a pair of siblings shows how much fun it is to be together, even when they enjoy different things....

Big dreams and bold questions fill the pages of this imaginative story. What Would You Do? by C.K. Willie is an engaging story for young readers. Told in playful, age-appropriate language, it asks a series of “what if” questions, inviting kids to imagine wild adventures—like...

When children learn to be kind, they create a healthy environment for themselves and improve their relationships with their friends. C.M. Harris teaches us this by example. She explains that there are many ways to help others. At home, children can do simple things like...

Where Summer Melts Christmas by Jéssica S. Scheumann is a gorgeous children's picture book. It follows Sofia and her best friend, Zeca, a cute penguin, as they spend Christmas this year in a new country with its own traditions. Sofia and Zeca both love Christmas, the...

Walter, Whatever Will Be, Will Be by Greg Bulla follows three young friends and their adventures as they navigate school, family, and friendship over a season in 1976, Oaktown, North Carolina. Walter Taylor and his two best friends are about to start second grade at...

When Santa Was Single: A Cinderella Story for Christmas is a children’s storybook written by Beth Wellington, with illustrations by Yvette Gilbert. The story follows Clarissa, a young woman living in a town near the North Pole. She had an incredible childhood, raised by her...

Waiting For You / Esperando Por Ti by Mikayla Ruvalcaba is a bilingual children's book depicting pregnancy in an age-appropriate way to help parents express their excitement and longing in the months leading up to the baby's arrival. It's a great book for young children,...

Puppies are adorable, but what if the puppy has big ears? Willie is a Yorkshire Terrier with one problem: exceptionally large ears. Clairmarie H. Field wrote Willie’s Gift to help children understand that the very thing that we often identify as odd can be the...

Whiskers and the Cat Café by Susan Montgomery is a tale of Friendships and Forever Homes. Whiskers, Sunny, Socks, and Fluffy all live in a cozy Cat Café, waiting for their forever homes. Whiskers loves playing with visitors to the Café, but he really wants...