Witches Garden Chaos is a children's fantasy tale by Laurel Lorenzini. Mags, a witch doctor, has a lot on her plate. Apart from seeing customers with various problems, she has to manage a garden alongside a home with pets and a young granddaughter named Bo....

Who is Driving Your Bus? by Shannon Sonnenberg is a fantastic story for young readers. Niko plays with his toy bus and pretends to be the bus attendant. The bus driver represents his inner emotions. The bus and who is driving it are analogous to how...

My Pancreas Needs Glasses is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Rhonda Goodall. It tells the story of Zach and his younger brother, Julian, who has Type 1 Diabetes. Zach admires Julian for taking care of his health and being brave by taking...

Our children today, regardless of age, are growing up listening to adults talking about climate change, how it is affecting the environment, and what it means for our youngsters’ futures. Our Earth by Jane Calame clues them in easily without heady explanations and teaches them...

Sasha Smart: Short Stories for Girls by Shermaine Perry-Knights introduces Sasha, a young girl who, like many other girls her age, faces daily challenges. From having to learn from her blunders in science class to striving to shine in other areas of her life, this...

Unfortunately, we live in a world of pain and suffering. Children should never be the victims of intentional and malicious attacks that can harm them for life. In Cam Creates a Hero by Dagmara Sitek, we meet Cam, who lives in a foster home with...

The Purple Christmas Tree by B. Woster is an engaging read for children from eight years of age and up, their parents, and teachers. Christmas is an important time of the year not only for humans but for trees. They do their best to look...

Two villains must deal with other, much more intelligent characters in the two stories collected in Bullies vs the Bold by Chip Colquhoun. In the first story, a greedy leopard puts the jungle at risk, so the animals decide to make a deal with him to...

On the same day, a hurricane and an earthquake hit Pondville, a town in Nova Scotia, Canada. At first, there does not seem to be any major damage, but then the inhabitants — including Sheriff Harry — discover that the courthouse building is leaning and a...

Dodging Cupcakes by Laura Pashley is the story of a seventh-grade girl, Mindy, who moves from Chicago to a small town, Oglesby, with her father. In Chicago, she was a student at a private school, but in Oglesby, she joined a school that was once...