Maya loves the outdoors. She loves to watch the leaves falling and she enjoys dancing to the music made by the swaying trees. She is like the lotus flower, “a strong-willed flower, resilient as a nurtured child.” In Patricia Ambinder’s As Maya Grows in the...

Emma is a real champster. That’s what we always called our dog when he braved the unthinkable and continued to hobble through life with joy and jubilation. William found Emma in a field, starving and dehydrated, barely alive. She had obviously been abused by her...

Fear is the most powerful and paralyzing of all emotions. Emotions are natural and everyone has them, but the trick is in how to control them. Willow the Skunk has to face a typical fear of school-aged children in Willow the Skunk Gets Schooled: On...

Reading can be fun. But first, you have to learn the basic sight words. In Dawn Renee Young’s Little Cub’s Big List, Little Cub is on a mission to learn and memorize his long list of sight words. Sight words are hard to remember, but...

Porter and Midge: Paws and Playtime is an educational children's picture book by Jennie Chen and Giselle Nevada. The book follows the adventures of two furry friends, Porter and Midge, and their human companions, CJ and Lora. CJ and Lora can't wait to play with...

Sometimes it’s just too difficult to sit still. That’s Gracie’s problem. She’s so full of energy that she feels compelled to always be on the move, tapping her pencil, wiggling in her seat, and kicking soccer balls into the wrong net, earning the opposing team...

Promise, You Will Be Kind is written by Yara Yardley and illustrated by Vikki Reds. Jamie enters a new school after leaving everything and everyone she knew behind. Adjusting to a new school with new people can be very difficult. Will Jamie make friends in...

I Am Me Unique and Free is written by Angela M Smith and illustrated by Ashleigh Lambert. It is important for everyone to discover where they fit into the world. For children, finding their balance can be a lot more challenging. Drawing parallels to the...

Sometimes our body does things that are just disgusting, like producing gas (fart), mucus from the nose, ear wax, and the worst of all—sweat! But these things should not be ewwy because we cannot survive without them. What would happen if there was no mucus...

Smidgen, the Baseball-Loving Pigeon, written by Sue Nichols and illustrated by Gary Blake, is the tale of Smidgen, a young pigeon born near the baseball stadium in New York City. Smidgen's family is forced to move when their nesting place is demolished, but they find...