The Flying Tree: Teaching Children the Importance of Home is a children’s picture book written by Ingo Blum and illustrated by Anna Zeezat. The life of a bird seemed to be so much better than living on the same old hill day after day. The...

I Like Me And I Love Me: A Book of Self Love Affirmations for Children by Abby Zaitley is an uplifting and encouraging book about self-love, self-liking, and self-acceptance. The main character in the book loves herself when she is perky and quirky. She likes...

We’re all different. We have different ways to laugh, to smile, to cry, to speak, but that’s part of what makes us all so uniquely special. Jake is a fun-loving dog, caramel-colored with “a chocolate stripe down his face” (I love that description). He loves...

School is an exciting place to be. There are lots of things to distract an active young mind while trying to learn what is being taught. Joseph is excited about starting kindergarten. But, on his first day, he becomes so focused on his coloring project...

Wayne Gerard Trotman's Rhyming Stories: An Anthology of Seven Illustrated Children's Poems is a collection of different, witty poems focused on different modern concerns. The book starts off with a poem about honey bees, followed by a poem about the animals from the forests and...

Everyone one of us has experienced grief or will soon experience grief. Grief happens whenever we lose someone or something. J. R. Denney has authored The First Day Without Sunshine to help children deal with the subject of grief. He does an excellent job explaining...

Nina is usually calm and relaxed but now she has to make a difficult decision. After taking a nap, she decides to call on her friends for help. Juan could help as he always did the right thing, taking his parents and their values into...

ZaZa is excited to learn in her virtual class and guess what, today is World Kindness Day! ZaZa knows the answer so she excitedly shouts that kindness is sharing things like a cupcake. Her teacher admires her enthusiasm, and for the class's homework assignment, they...

Linda Hoff celebrates and honors the journey of mothers with mentally ill adult children in her book, Sisters in the Storm: For Moms of Mentally Ill Adult Children (MIAC). The challenges of MIAC far outweigh those of mothers dealing with normal children, and it is...

Many people know about Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, but few have ever heard of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). In Grandpa and Lewy: A Story of Hope and Empowerment for Children Touched by Lewy Body Dementia, Jennifer Randazzo explains the twofold nature of this disease called...

Why I Love Grandpa: A Celebration of Grandpas and Their Love of Children by PeTika Tave is a beautiful tribute to grandfathers. It shows us all how important that connection between children and their grandparents is. There are some wonderful subtleties that make this story...

When we express ourselves honestly, we remain true to ourselves and are authentic. Being honest sets us free from the burden of maintaining the contradiction between what we feel and what we express. Children should be taught that telling the truth is always better than...

From an early age, we must teach children about emotions so that they can recognize and understand them. As an example, they have to understand that feeling angry is a natural emotion, but it is necessary to control it for one's good. My Angry Robot...

Meet June by April Martin is an educational children’s picture book about a little girl called June. It’s the month that many have been waiting for, summertime! June’s family already has an exciting trip to the beach planned, and with Father’s Day coming up, she...

Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling reminds us that we are all born with the capacity for empathy. This remarkable book with beautiful pictures is divided into three acts: The Awakening, The Lessons, and The Gift. Erick K French's story follows Iphelia, a child born...

Love With the Five Senses by Carmen Parets Luque starts with a child called Rose pondering what love is after seeing her lovesick older sister. Her mother tells her that there are different kinds of love; it is not limited to romantic relationships alone. She...

Life is sometimes hard. Things happen to break your heart and it makes life confusing. “How do you fix a broken heart?” You can ask anyone, and each person you ask will give you a different answer, many of which really don’t help at all....

Living in an era when being gay was unacceptable and seen as an abomination was stressful enough, but what about raising a child in such circumstances? The fear of being rejected by society, the strain of having to hide your sexuality, and the fear of...

In If I Lived On A Farm!, written by Shona Darin and illustrated by Anne Zimanski, a young boy dreams of living on a farm as a farm animal. He imagines how great it would be to supply milk as a dairy cow (that makes...

Owl B. Blue is very sad. He learned at church that Jesus died on the cross. In Rob Sudano’s Owl B. Blue on Easter Day, his parents explained how Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after the crucifixion, which is why we...