Belle Brown packs a lot into her latest book, Nia the Narwhal Explores the Christmas Ocean. At the beginning of the book, Brown includes information on sight words and their importance. She has highlighted these words in bold throughout the story. Nia the Narwhal loves...

The Christmas Feast: A Fishy Tale by Diana Pishner Walker is the story of two Italian boys who are cousins. Their fishermen fathers taught them the skill, but one year, just before Christmas, the fathers become incapacitated and were unable to fish. So the boys...

I Would Love You Even If You Burned The Christmas Turkey by Bucleigh Newton Kernodle is a holiday-themed book for children. It is a light-hearted, feel-good story that will teach young children the true meaning of Christmas, including a short version of the story of...

With Christmas just around the corner, A Christmas Miracle at Ground Zero by Judith M. Ackerman should be on many people’s lists as a gift for children, not only in New York City but across the nation. This fantastically illustrated book is about a family...

More than anything else, Cindi wants a playmate for Christmas – the four-legged, furry kind. That and snow. But how can she tell everyone what she wants? After all, she is a dog. She decides she must do what human children do and ask Santa...

Two Hearts' Christmas Promise is a work of fiction in the romance genre and is the latest installment in the Two Hearts Wounded Warrior Romance series. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Tamara Ferguson. The book follows the...

Children love activity books with word searches, mazes, spot the differences, or find the hidden objects and they’ll enjoy Captain Polo’s Christmas Activity Book: Educational fun for kids age 6-12. This colored activity book features artwork from The Adventures of Captain Polo comic book series...

Have you ever wondered what happens to the Christmas tree at night when everyone in the house is sound asleep? The Living Christmas Tree by Kristin Sponaugle describes how the excitement of Christmas and Santa’s imminent visit was building, but perhaps it’s not just the...

Reena Korde Pagnoni has authored the children’s book Rambee Boo & The Christmas Sock! It’s Christmas time. Families are busy. Stress is high. Rambee Boo is a young dog who has lost his favorite sock. Rock is his “big brother.” This book tells the story...

The Christmas Coat by Kathleen Shoop delivers on so many levels, from the narrative to the pitch-perfect realistic dialogue throughout and the message of being generous in the end. In my mind, The Christmas Coat comes across as a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol,...

A Christmas at Gingerbread Falls by Katie Mettner follows the story of two actors as they find that Christmas is truly the most magical time of the year. Carrie Murray’s whole career is all about Christmas and love. Appearing in movies exclusively made for Christmas...

If you are a unicorn lover - and who isn’t – you’ll adore the magical new series by R.L. Ullman that begins with Petunia the Unicorn’s Dazzling Christmas Debut. We know children need a lot of courage to start a new school. Now imagine that...

When someone poisons a man's Christmas gift, a local businesswoman searches for the killer in the delightful sleuth mystery, The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza Wacek. Charlie creates her own tea blends and herbal tinctures and sells them from her home. At times, Charlie...

Five strangers from various walks of life booked travel passages from Jackson Hole to Cody. Marilyn, Derek, Cassie, Fran, and Oscar planned to spend their Christmas in Cody, but fate had other plans. The group’s helicopter crashed in the middle of nowhere because a horrible...

Alonso, a spider weary of his travels, looks everywhere for a place to spend the night. Sadly, all the wayside inns of the city are occupied. Even the rafters are brimming full of spiders, leaving no space for him. A kind spider lets Alonso in...

Herald, the Christmas Dachshund by JC Konitz is about an adorable little puppy. Herald narrates the story and shares how one day a man with pointy ears comes to take him to a special place. The man was one of Santa's elves, and Herald was...

Living the city life was Kentucky native Marcos's dream. Why not? There was nothing more beautiful than a bird’s-eye view of the Rockefeller Center at Christmas. The bustle of New York City streets, the intoxicating promise of financial success, the won-and-done atmosphere of completion. It...

The Travelling Turtle’s Christmas Adventure: The Travelling Turtle’s Adventure Series written and illustrated by Bianca Vickers is an enjoyable and engaging children’s picture book. Young readers travel along with Turtle as he takes a merry adventure to explore the Arctic at Christmastime. Guided by two...

In The Christmas Cards: An Amish Holiday Romance by Sylvia Price, Lucy was not married for very long when her husband, Albrecht, died unexpectedly. The first Christmas that Lucy and Albrecht were to share is now a sad, difficult time for the young widow. Andy...

Police officer Max St. James and his partner, Maggie Kyle, are supposed to be taking down gun-runner Bobby King but a bomb threat at a coach terminal throws them a curveball. The bomb turns out to be fireworks rigged to explode, and there is only...