Lost at Sea! is an adventurous and endearing children's picture book by Ian Humpheryes. It follows the adventures of Clear Shrimp, who stays in a rockpool but is washed away into the ocean in some seaweed, where it was resting. When Clear Shrimp finds itself...

“Why is pirating so addictive? They say that when you lose your first hand, you get hooked.” Adventures, even as pirates, can be both fun and funny, not to mention being full of poetic nonsense. In Jan Jang’s Pirate Poetry, the fun is in the...

The Christmas Hedgehog: Tales from the Bluebell Woods by Ian Humpheryes is a story for young children that is both well-written and expertly illustrated. Hedgehog wakes up in winter, and whilst he should actually still be in hibernation, it feels warmer than usual, and something...

How can anyone possibly have too many books? Mrs. Owl has a lot of books, but too many? Perhaps she just needs to organize her library a bit better. Eliana Hidalgo’s Mrs. Owl’s Messy Library is definitely a mess gone too far. Full of dust,...

In MJ Murray’s Detective Dylan and the Hunt for Home Plate, Dylan and Emily are amateur sleuths. Well, mostly Dylan, but his sister is always at his side ready to help. And it’s a good thing too because when the kids take on another mystery,...

Wingless is a children's fantasy novel by Catherine Witzaney. Asher Songfeather, a young half-bat, half-feather wingless sprite, has ambitions to join the Forest Guard one day. But when his adoptive sister Carinen's health takes a turn for the worse, Asher reluctantly agrees to help the...

In The Kingdom of Trolls by Rae St. Clair Bridgman, Wil Wychwood and Sophie Isidor, descendants of a lineage of mages, face a renewed confrontation with the ancient malevolent secret society, the Serpent's Chain, in Iceland. Concerns arise when Aunt Violet and Aunt Rue win...

The Secret of the Sweet Treats Kingdom by Sheri Williams is the first book in The Board Game Chronicles. It is the story of Amber and Ava, two sisters with regular lives. Amber, the older sister, is not pleased with the fact that she has...

The Griffin's Egg by Cole Poindexter introduces Phoebe Gray, a ten-year-old girl from Illinois who meets a peculiar being as she and her parents are releasing a screech owl in West Virginia. Phoebe finds herself in the middle of a fantastical adventure when she helps...

Mickie McKinney, Boy Detective: Connections in Chemistry by R.L. Fink is the story of Mickie, a sixth-grader who also happens to be a private detective. Jamie Burns, Mickie’s friend and a science genius, is sent as a substitute when their chemistry teacher leaves early on...