In That’s What My Dad Is Like by Angela Garcia, a young girl describes her father’s funny and loving way of moving through his life each day. In the mornings, he wakes the children by banging pots and pans. The daughter describes it as “like...

The Magical Tram by Hayley Frazer follows Clem, a conductor with many jobs who brings the reader along as a newcomer while he and his old friend, a dog, ride a tram that can wander through his memories. The tram takes them to different moments...

The Cheeky Capybara and the Emerald Boa by Kateryna Dronova centers on a quiet mangrove forest that gets turned upside down one afternoon. Ramiro, an elderly pelican, drops out of the sky in a complete panic to warn the animals about a big green presence...

Every child has picked up something they probably shouldn't have. In The Tissue Issue: Ariel and the Dirty, Yucky, Icky, Sticky, Stinky Tissue by Jamie Kucia, a curious five-year-old girl does the unthinkable: she picks up a used tissue. The story begins with that girl,...

The Night of Samhain: A Halloween Fairy Scary Story is part of The Everkind Tales by Gael J. B. Orr. It’s Samhain night, and there’s a full moon. Emlyn the tawny owl sits in the hickory tree. The fairy sisters Willa and Violet are tucked...

Tower in the Stars (Torre en las estrellas) by Laura Carolfi is a children’s illustrated picture book about life and death. Tower is an older dog, and he is there when Tiny is born. I liken Tower to a grandfather figure, in his later years...

Preethi Saravanakumar’s The Work of Art on the Wall is about a boy named Gary, whose parents give him anything he wants. But he’s sad that he doesn’t have any siblings to play with like all his friends. He spends his days wishing he were...

The Green Pumpkin by Jen Kennedy tells the story of Emmy, a girl who goes on a school trip to a farm. Soon, there will be a pumpkin contest, so Farmer Jim lets each student take one. Everyone runs to get theirs, always choosing the...

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

The Moon and Me is a dreamy, magical, read-aloud counting book for young children. The gentle rhythms of the text by Nielle P Marques track nighttime animals in the sky, on trees, on fences, on land, in the woods, and in the creek. Flying herons,...