Me, G, and the Locust Tree by Clay Anderson is an illustrated children’s book about life cycles - our life cycles to be specific - and how ordinary things around us, like trees, can come to mean something endearing. This appears to be taken from...

Wow! What a Trip! My Journey to Meet my Family by Susan M. Tarrant is an insightful and fascinating book that will help children feel good about being a brother or a sister. The baby is excited to know that it is connected to its...

A Gift for Laura / Un regalo para Laura by Pilar Velez-Zamparelli, with illustrations and design by Alynor Diaz and drawings by Mariet Vergara, is a bilingual children's book about Laura, who is celebrating her birthday. Laura lives in Mexico with her grandmother, Carmela, who...

The Book That Shouldn't Exist by A.J. Cosmo, with illustrations by Felix Hinojosa, is truly as the title states. Intended for family members with small children who have been impacted by school shootings, the simple but important message is that, despite the world sometimes being...

Sherman’s Happy New Year is a children’s book written by Anne Shields and illustrated by Janell Colburn. On his very first outing, Sherman the balloon is ever so excited to be attending the countdown at Times Square. After the giant ball falls, hailing in the...

Abigail was the very beautiful Queen of Natronia. But she hadn’t always been beautiful. Like the story of the ugly duckling, Abigail was hideous at birth and throughout her childhood she was teased, tormented and bullied by her peers. She was so ashamed of her...

Nathan is always excited when Nana Cassandra visits him. Sometimes they go to the park, sometimes they play video games and sometimes they go to the movies. In Nathan and Nana Cassandra – Superheroes by Karen Gorback, something different happens the next time Nana Cassandra...

The Sleeping King is a remarkable book about climate change, written by Laurel Colless. Hidden away in Gum Tree Rest Home in Australia since his parents’ murders years earlier, eleven-year-old Peter Blue is woken from his sleep by a tall stranger, Tollen, who has a...

King of the Hill: A Child’s Personal History of the Great Depression by Nelda Bedford Gaydou is a collection of family stories from the Great Depression. It follows the adventures of Benji, the youngest of eleven children, and his share-cropping family as they move from...

Grandma and Me: A Kid’s Guide for Alzheimer’s and Dementia is a social/health issues book for children written by Beatrice Tauber Prior Psy.D. and Mary Ann Drummond RN and illustrated by Julia Walther. Who is Grandma? She’s a little boy’s best friend. She’s the one...