Most people have heard of the Disney Corporation, but not everyone knows the story behind it. Meet the Disney Brothers by Aaron H. Goldberg tells the story of the men behind the animation studio: Walt Disney and his older brother Roy. The book begins when...

Tiny the Frightened Acorn by Neil Roy McFarlane is the adorable story of an acorn named Tiny, who is the tiniest of the tiny acorns in the field. She spent her days being afraid of the gang of squirrels that hunted for their meals in...

Tangled In The Web, Quick Mystery #2 has a lot going on. There is humor, mystery, romance, twists and turns, friendship and baseball. The main star of the story is Quick, a man who has gotten himself into an impossible situation that may or...

Allison the Alligator was different. She was not like the other alligators. She disliked the murky waters of the swamp and longed for a bubble bath. She was sophisticated and tried convincing the other alligators that life was more than just lurking behind the bushes...

Cruel Tricks of the Heart by Cheeba Jonez takes the reader through five different mental health afflictions: depression, anxiety, addiction, self-harm, and suicide. The author reveals to us early on that he has suffered from a mental health condition since childhood. Not only did the...

Med student Sharon can’t seem to shake the haunting memories of her Baba and what happened that fateful day, despite all she’s done to move on with her life and make a difference in the world. Just when the gnawing pain in her heart...

Goldilocks and the Six Simple Machines, written by Lois Wickstrom and illustrated by Nicole Hehn, is a children’s short story about six machines that help the Bear family with needs within their home. All of the Bears were gentle and appreciated the help of Goldilocks...

Meet Emilie, the little elephant in the story Emilie The Little Elephant by Isabel Scheck. Emilie loved hugging her mummy and liked picking flowers. She was happy when she blew bubbles and she enjoyed the time when she played in the water. Her friend's name...

We are all different. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, but sometimes our weaknesses provide us with hidden strengths. Iris was born blind, or at least she had limited vision. Because of her blindness, she was the last of the litter to be...

Though Scary the Iguana was a scary creature, he was scared of everything. He lived by a dock, under a rock, and it was next to the waters of the Blue Hole. The Blue Hole was in Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys. Penny...

Postcards From the Future - A Triptych on Humanity’s End by Andrew C. Lark, Donald Levin and Wendy Sura Thompson is a collection dealing with how humanity may end. Andrew C. Lark's Pollen uses many characters to show how a phenomenon in the sky was...

In Eternal Life in the Spirit World, Jennifer P. Tanabe and Dietrich F. Seidel paint a picture of the hedonistic body in relation to the free soul. They explain that humans need to live harmoniously, both in body and soul. Helpful illustrations are present throughout...

Extinguishing the Inferno of Anger by Alexys V. Wolf provides tools that readers need to break away from the destructive power of anger, a book that is as timely as it is relevant, with a powerful message that addresses one of the troubling realities that...

Burning the Bacon by L. Austen Johnson comprises four distinct sections of poetry – Gravity, In Memoriam, Entropy, and Parthenogenesis. These titles fascinated me before I began to read. The title poem, Burning the Bacon, is a declaration of love whilst Molded, one line of...

Pete the Pig Gets Picked On by Lindsey Luckey is a children's book that extols the virtues of being different through the story's main character, Pete the Pig. Unlike all of the other pigs on Farmer John's farm, Pete has an extremely heightened sense of...

Nadishka Aloysius’s story of Roo, The Little Red TukTuk: Introducing World Cultures and Travel through a Picture Book about a Brave and Kind Vehicle for Children age 3 - 6 is a lovely tale about a three-wheeled motor vehicle that is popular in Colombo, Sri...

Stuart Duffelmeyer and the Masters of Plagues by Dewey B Reynolds is a young adult fantasy novel that is delightful, featuring a very sophisticated protagonist. Stuart Duffelmeyer is known as “the Whiz Kid”, an NYU student who has worked hard to become a perfect 4.0...

In Laura E. Goodin's adventure novel After the Bloodwood Staff, a fictitious novel of the same title becomes the basis of an adventure. Sybil Alvaro believes the novel After the Bloodwood Staff, written by her favorite author C. G. Ingraham, is not entirely fiction. Hoyle...

Zay loved his rock more than he loved playing in the water. He loved lying on it, twisting and turning on it, and stretching on it. Abby also wanted to sit on the rock but Zay barked every time she climbed on the rock. ...

Dipsy Doodle And The Recital, by Alisa Guttadauro, is good for kids of all ages suffering from shyness. The story starts with Dipsy and her mother, Mrs. Doodle, discussing how she is petrified of performing on stage. A classmate, Sindy Sazparilla, teases her, telling her...