Be careful what you wish for! Franky is a curious frog. He’s bored with eating insects all the time. He wants to try something new. While watching children have fun at the playground, Franky notices a recipe on top of the garbage bin. The recipe...

Everyone is different. Even the color of their skin is different. Violet’s skin is a shade of purple and everyone in her community is a different shade of purple. Violet loves the color purple. But, when her mother’s job means they have to move to...

Renz Bedtime Prayer by Larenz Tolson and Raykel Tolson is an uplifting book that provides young readers with bedtime prayers. It is bedtime again and time to be thankful for family and friends and the good day the little boy in the story has had....

During the current season that we live in today, it's more important than ever to listen to our bodies. In Amanda Loraine Lynch's The Mindfulness Room, with beautiful illustrations by Bonnie Lemaire, children will learn how to listen to their bodies, especially during stressful times....

There’s more to life than zebras. Or, is there? One little boy is so fascinated with zebras, that’s all he sees. He sees them in everything, even the spoon he uses to eat his cereal. His mother understands to a point, but she wants him...

When Everest, a cockapoo puppy full of life and forever active, was adopted and brought home to his fur-ever home, he was skittish and didn’t trust anyone. He had been abused in his previous homes and he was hesitant to trust anyone new. He even...

"Listen to the earth’s natural rhythm…To play the drum, one must remember every drum stroke is a rhythm” are beautiful words taken from The Drum With No Sound by Katrina Rahman-Stephens. This beautifully illustrated children's picture book sets the stage in Nigeria and tells the...

My Pandemic Diary by Dr. Vedika Agrawal and Dr. Kunal Das is an engaging story written in rhyming verses about the times we live in currently. An eleven-year-old girl is confined to home, although she is not sick, but because of the corona pandemic. Initially,...

How many times do we tell girls that they are enough? There is always something better to look forward to, something more that they can do and be. While that may serve as a motivation to achieve great things, it is also necessary for young...

The Cycle of a Dream: A Kid’s Introduction to Structural Racism in America by Kimberly Narain is an easy and direct short book describing the origins and the development of systemic racism in the United States. It is beautifully illustrated by Mike Motz, who demonstrates...