The question of whether the horrors of the Holocaust are over for the next generation is a pressing and haunting theme in Ruth Rotkowitz’s Escaping the Whale. Set in 1980, Brooklyn, this is the story of 28-year-old Marcia Gold, a high school guidance counselor who...

Alone, confused and scared, when Micah’s mother died, his future was uncertain. Having grown up in a rather strange place, the orphan of Athena Weston (alias of Amy Buckman Westlund), is searching for answers to his confusion in Micah and the Angel by Anita Batz....

Pepper Parrot’s Problem with Patience: A Captain No Beard Story by Carole P. Roman is the second book of the Captain No Beard series. The book opens with Captain No Beard and his crew of The Flying Dragon cleaning the deck. The Captain asks them...

Quentin's Problem by Misty Baker is an entertaining story about Quentin the Quick who loved Pirate School, but could never bring himself to say 'Arr.' Swashbuckling came easily to him and he could swing from ship to ship without missing a beat. Now he wanted...

Ghost of the Forbidden City - China by Sumita Mukherjee takes readers to China with Keiko, Kenzo, and Eji. They are on a school trip with their friends, and Tyra, their history teacher who was also known as Miss Tyrant. Eji has been given special...

Meet the Imaginative Joe Dreamer (Joe Dreamer series Caribbean Adventure Book 1) by Karlene Stewart is a delightful storybook revolving around Joe Dreamer who lives with his parents in the Cayman Islands. He likes to think that his drawings are real and he draws almost...

Henrietta Hedgehog’s Prickly Problem by Carole P. Roman shares a beautiful story about self-acceptance. Henrietta is a charming hedgehog who is unhappy with her spiky quills and feels they keep her fellow critters from becoming close friends. While at school, some of the animals tease...

Eri and the Fairies: A Tangled Solution is a delightful fairy story with fairy food descriptions. Leni Puccio tells the story of Eri and the two fun-loving fairies, Freddy and Freida, who visit her hair every night. Freddy, Freida, and their friends love to have...

Ripened on the Vine by Lori Michele Davenport has a Christian theme. The book is about the author who was haunted by the images of her father abusing her mother when she was a child. She speaks about how those images distorted and traumatized her...

Life, even in a royal palace, can be difficult. Especially for teens who are trying to come to terms with their changing bodies and changing feelings. It takes courage to grow up. It takes courage no matter where you live. For Toby and Olive, it...

There is good magic and bad magic all around us and when witches and warlocks plot their battles, good against evil, anything can happen, especially on Halloween. Elliott is a boy growing up in a non-magical world. But he has the potential to do magic....

When Fred the Snake and Friends explore USA-East by Peter Cotton is a fun-filled and adventurous picture book for young children. Jungle Jim and his friends go sightseeing around the USA. From New York City to Niagara Falls, this unusual group of friends sees it...

Emma Tate is a good girl, but the same can’t be said about her eating habits. Like her friends, she loves to eat fish fingers, chips, sweets and crisps rather than the mashed potatoes, vegetables and meat that her mum prepares for dinner. She often...

Kamyla Chung and The Creepy Crawlies is a wonderful story of trying to get children to sleep when they think there are spooky images in their bedroom. Author Ellwyn Autumn has created a bedtime story that all children and parents can relate to. Firstly, Kamyla...

Drinking the Poison and Waiting on Your Neighbor to Die by Dominique Wilkins is about how attitudes can change lives. Savannah hates everything about Kaleena. She tries to make Kaleena's life miserable with her scheming ways and hatred. But Kaleena's attitude of not being bothered...

In Seal The Deal: A Resource Book for Those Looking to Improve and Retain Healthy Loving Relationships with Others, author Nadi Williams has written hints for a positive and loving relationship with significant others. She urges readers to first search within themselves in order to...

Nerdi Bunny loved to read and she was not an average bunny. She had been spending her school vacation reading books and daily newspapers, and in the afternoon she read the headlines about how the Honey and Harvest Festival was in jeopardy and the Bee...

Born of the Night is Volume 1 of a murder mystery series by Matt Wanicur. Ethan Lewis is well-loved by his parents and everyone expects him to have a great and promising future. Tragedy turns his life around and sends him off in a direction...

Buzzy's Feet by Uncle Amos and Carmi Katz is a delightful children's animal pictorial book which introduces readers to the concepts of self-confidence and self-acceptance. Buzzy is a spunky little duckling who is unhappy with his own feet when he begins to tire one day...

What makes Mind Files by Penny Hodgson such a unique and vital contribution to the immensely relevant and timely subject matter of individual psychological health is Ms. Hodgson’s manner of applying the deepest of psychological understandings from practitioners as astute as Carl Jung to a...