Fruits and vegetables are important for the health and well-being of the body, especially for children as they are growing. It's a daily challenge to make children eat what’s good for them on a regular basis. Well, eating vegetables just got more fun in Nancy...

Robert McNally tells readers in the introduction to I Had Jelly on My Nose And a Hole in My Breeches that his friends call him “the memory man”, and boy, are they right! What an astounding memory McNally has for times, places, names and...

Sister Superior’s Thumb, the Pope’s Ring and the End of Childhood by Robert McNally begins in 1946 when Robert is 14 years old. This is the second book of a trilogy by McNally that he calls The Memoir of a Boy on His Dangerous Journey....

Twice Born by TJ Green is the sequel to Tom's Inheritance. It's been a year since Tom has been to the Other, where he awakened his ancestor King Arthur and left behind his cousin, Beansprout. At the time he thought it was what he wanted,...

Bump the Monster is a delightful children’s book written by T.D. Ashcraft and beautifully illustrated by Daniel Roper. Bump is a blue and orange monster who lives under the bed in a secret place. At night, Bump comes out to play, sometimes bringing his friends...

I chose to read For No Reason by Kathleen Gauer because my daughter has had a similar problem to Jamie’s with a boy in her class. In the book Jamie is being bullied by the new kid. Jamie wants the bullying to stop, but she...

Meet Baryn, Bump’s new pet in Bump and the New Pet by T.D. Ashcraft. Bump found him in a tree, and Baryn is a rainbow rhino-bat. Baryn’s horn changes color with his mood. Bump does not shut the windows in time when Baryn starts to...

Bump and the Family Tree by T.D. Ashcraft is intriguingly clever. It is a picture book likely to appeal to children who are invariably attracted by lots of colour. There is also a great deal going on in most of the illustrations, which would keep...

Trying to protect his family from the two most notorious gangsters of the twentieth century, a young postal worker is unwittingly caught in the rivalry between Bugsy Moran and Al Capone, in the intense and thrilling supernatural novel Unremarkable by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee....

Alexa Tuttle’s Rosie and Mr. Spooks is a spooky fun story told in the form of rhyming poetry and with eye-catching, colorful illustrations by Carlie Tuttle. On a wet Halloween evening, after some festivities, Rosie just wants to relax with a cup of cocoa and...

Fresh off the Starship is a work of contemporary chick lit with a science fiction style twist, written for adults by author Ann Crawford. The heroine of our tale is Missy, a being from a race far across the galaxy, who is sent to Earth...

Letters from Birdie Camp or The Theatre of the Absurd Bird by Lola, Queen of Green and Broccoli as told to Jeanne Filiere Juhos is an entertaining story featuring Lola, Teddy, Miss Sophie, the resident dogs, and the furry and feathered neighbors. Lola finds herself...

Looking for Trouble: Adventures of Teddy and Trouble is a children’s animal picture book written by M.L. Moyer and illustrated by S.W. Moyer. What started out as a perfectly nice, sunny day turned into a series of adventures for Teddy, a young dog looking for...

Pumpkin's daddy brought the best kitties home and she loved them. She found them cute, cuddly, sweet, and perfect. She kissed them every morning and carried them around in her baby buggy. She took care of them well but still, they started running away from...

The rain outside had stopped and Trudy Matoody was happy knowing she could go outside and walk down to the pond. She hoped she would find a friend who loved to sing, just like her. She went to the front door and started singing. Her...

Have you ever tried counting sheep to help you fall asleep? Some people think it works. But there are other ways to count yourself to sleep. How about just counting from one ginormous candy explosion to ten brave squirrels? And then try it backward. Sound...

We live in very difficult times. Many parts of the world are plagued by war and civil disruptions. While we watch the battles in far-away places in horror, while we see first hand the plight of those close to us lashing out in anger, we...

The Wild & Zany Galactic Adventures of Commander Zhang & Lieutenant Simon by Vegastarchild584 is the tale of the titular Zhang and Simon and their extra-terrestrial work. The relationship between the co-workers who conduct exploratory assignments from the base of the Athena is one of...

Karen Henton introduces us to delightful characters in her picture book Meet the Snozzeralls, with illustrations by Sarah-Leigh Wills. The Snozzeralls are a family who lives in the face of a human and through their adventures we learn more about the anatomy of the human...

My Brother Is AU-Mazing! by Bethany Lynn is an AU-mazing children’s book. While the book deals with the many complications of Noah’s autism, it also deals with his sister. Too often, the siblings of differently-abled children fall through the cracks. Bethany does not say that...