For a vampire girl, losing your sunscreen (or getting it stolen from you) is a big deal! Without special sunscreen, the danger of becoming permanently polka-dotted is real. Scaredy Bat and the Sunscreen Snatcher by Marina J. Bowman is a fun, humorous mystery following a...

A small cloud lands on earth and turns into a snowball named Snowy. Snowy wanders alone, trying to become friends with the animals in the forest, but they all ignore the snowball. It ends up meeting Lily, a young girl from the nearby village, and...

In Silly Sam The Elf by Angela Lindsey, we are introduced to an elf who not only loves his job making toys for the children of the world, but he also loves to make his fellow elves laugh and have a good time. That is...

If you were born any time between 1970 and 1990, you probably remember Choose Your Own Adventure-style books and countless other lines riding that popular wave; if born at any other time then either your children or your parents enjoyed them. I adored those pulpy,...

Things may not always be as you think. Stories have a habit of ever-changing and the characters become bigger than life with every new change. This is what happens when Simon decides to go on a quest looking for the very scary dragon. Simon’s a...

Stargazey World by Christine Dawe is a fast-paced children’s fantasy adventure filled with humor. Its protagonist is Sheena Robinson, a scouser (person from Liverpool) with a mass of green hair, a dad who’s always telling corny jokes, and a best friend called Lizzy. Sheena hates...

Safe! In Outerspace written by Anita and Brandon Holmes and illustrated by Antonio Pahetti is a fun-filled children's picture book with aliens, no less! Readers follow Brandon, a young boy, who is shocked awake by an alien crash landing in his room. He doesn't have...

Secret of the Starflower: Rainbow of Spectra is a work of children's fiction by author Jessica Kopecky. Sandy wasn’t like the rest of the seahorsicorns that she knew growing up in Spectra. While everyone at school had pretty colors and could vanish as a way...

Shadow’s a dog; Foxy and Sparkles are squirrels. It doesn’t matter that they’re different; they’re still best friends. Shadow once saved a lost baby squirrel, Little Whitey, and that’s what cemented the friendship. There are other wild animals (and not so wild, too) who have...