What is STEM? It’s an acronym and we’re familiar with acronyms in an era that lives by them. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine. There are a lot of men and women who have excelled in different strands of STEM, but more has...

Penguins Eat Pancakes by Low Lai Chow is a picture book that gives us a line-up of popular carnivorous animals and their usual meals. This is quickly followed by suggested meatless and possibly plant-based but still palatable and healthy alternatives to enjoy, all of which...

Life can sometimes set up roadblocks that you cannot foresee. Bitter Melons by Stephanie Chan follows a young girl who has a hard time coping with the ups and downs of life after her father's untimely passing when she was thirteen years old. Having grown...

It's OK to Lose! is a wonderful educational story for children by Stephanie Chan on how to deal with losing in the everyday activities of life. The first thing I noticed and liked is the opening page. On this page, children can fill in the...

Have you ever knitted a sweater with an Irish Setter, or played tug with a Pug? An Alphabet Tail is a children’s animal book from the Phoebe Cakes Tails series by Michelle Dumont. Phoebe Cakes, a special needs Bulldog from New Orleans, Louisiana didn’t have...

Zomerschoon: Beauty of Summer is a contemporary romance novel by Wendi Dass. After an adventurous trip to Rome, Italy, Anna Franklin is back in Oxford as a grad student when her advisor, Dr. Cayley, suffers an unfortunate stroke. Left without her favorite professor, Anna has...

The Third Way of My God is a work of fiction in the epic fantasy subgenre and is the sequel to The Spiral of My Destiny. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by author Michael R. Schultheiss. The book follows Rosteval and...

Dieppe Crossing by Betty L McLane-Iles is an intense and searching story of family, love, connections, and serendipity that draws readers into a world where everything, it seems, is linked and little is left to happenstance. When Jena Cohn, a lost and slightly disillusioned middle-aged...

Juliette Godot's From the Drop of Heaven: Legends, Prejudice, and Revenge is historical fiction inspired by the author's 16th-century French ancestors. Catherine Cathillon de la Goutte de Paradis was Godot's thirteenth-generation grandmother. The family name "de la Goutte de Paradis" provides the title of the...

Insecurity is a Seed (Emotion Series) by Lauren Martin is a powerful picture book. Children will most likely experience feelings of insecurity at some point in their young lives, whether it is about their appearance or something they feel they're not great at. Whatever it...

Sadness is a Dark Cloud (Emotion Series) by Lauren Martin is an uplifting and empowering picture book for young children who are encountering emotional difficulties. If your child is experiencing the sad feelings that life can bring, this book will both comfort and soothe them...

Anger is a Storm (Emotion Series) is written and illustrated by Lauren Martin. In this story, the main character discovers all the ways anger finds its way into everyday life. Triggered by moments of not getting what is wanted, the child expresses anger in several...

Jealousy is the Moon (Emotion Series) by Lauren Martin is an educational picture book for young children. If your child has shown signs of jealousy before or if you are worried they may start to develop those feelings as they get older, then this book...

Disappointment is a Wave (Emotion Series) by Lauren Martin is an educational picture book for young children. Disappointment is a common emotion we all feel regularly. Unfortunately, children feel it too. There's no need for concern because Lauren Martin is back with another in her...

Katherine is disappointed when Phillip, her husband, is called into work on his first day off in two years. The lonely housewife had been so looking forward to this time off that she did not notice the chaos unfolding around her. Her reverie was broken...

In Joey Paul's Cramping Chronicles: The Second Pang, Jessie Oliver, a disabled fifteen-year-old, tries to understand her new empathic talents as she communicates with other empaths in an empath online forum and strives to ease the loss and grief of a classmate. Jessie was ill...

"To work is to live: for without work there can be no life and without life, there can be no work." So reads the opening statement in The Eloquence of Effort: Beware the Path of Least Resistance by Indar Maharaj. Is this a book that...

Rune Myth's Adventures: A Tail of a Tail by Shannon Langel is a fun and interactive picture book for young children. One day at the park, a young dog named Rune is playing with some other dogs. Rune notices that her tail is way...

Jaguars and Other Game is a historical novel by Brynn Barineau. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1809, the book follows the adventures of Maria and Isabel Azevedo, two sisters who lead a mule train to transport gold from the mines in Minas Gerais...

Timothy by Rosemary O Sheppard covers the first four decades of Timothy's life. From the day he was born in London to a single mother during the Second World War, he knew himself to be special, very special, and with God as his father the...