Our Little Promise by Priya Pasumarthy follows Billy and Lilly, two best friends who love to play together while their mothers spend time together. It’s April Fool’s Day, and Lilly dresses up in various costumes, pretending to be anything from a cat to an elephant...

Bedtime can be a challenging time for parents and kids. Animals Over the Bridge: A Bedtime Story Routine by Janine Maxwell is a soothing, rhythmic story that will make bedtime more pleasant. Along with the gentle rhyming jungle story, an accompanying wind-down activity adds value...

Wibby loves playing pretend with her friends, and when they give her a superhero costume to wear, she falls in love with it, pretending to have superpowers. But when she finds herself in three situations in which sea creatures or people need her help, Wibby...

Owl Be Seeing You (A Grumpy the Iguana and Green Parrot Adventure) by Susan Marie Chapman is a picture book intended for ages 3 to 8. The book is about Screech Owl, who comes to a park to meet the female owl with whom he...

All babies like to snuggle close when darkness approaches. For many animals, it’s bedtime, a time to go to sleep. Puppies and kittens snuggle close to their mothers, as do baby bears and lion cubs. It’s also time for human babies to sleep, too, all...

Pud: The Wannabe Cat by Brian Murphy is the true story of a lost cat. Brian’s cat Pud used to enjoy spending time with his family, Sue, Ben, and his special playmate, Theo. When Pud accidentally fell asleep in the gardener’s trailer, he ended up...

I Love You, Fiorella, Flaws and All!, written by Cindy A. Bell and illustrated by Emily House, is a children's picture book that centers around a young puppy named Fiorella and her mother, Mama Rose. The story begins with Fiorella happily running around her farm...

The Love Book is an adorable story highlighting the impossibilities of the limits of how a parent can love their child. Somehow every impossibility is conquered by the love the mother feels. Jemima Neal illustrates the unexplainable feelings that come with being a parent, and...

The Clean Green Dragon by Rebecca Bielawski is a delightful picture book story about a dragon who helps some not-very-bright creatures see the error of their sea-polluting ways. A dragon, with solar-paneled wings, lives a lazy life on a volcanic island blowing cheery, animal-shaped clouds...

Silviya Rankova, the author of The Very Stubborn Camel, knows a lot about camels. She has a page at the end of the book with a list of nifty details about camels: how strong they are, how fast they travel, how much water they can...