Year of the Meatball by Angela Calabrese offers readers a delightful blend of humor, heartache, and youthful resilience. The story is told through the eyes of Joey Marconi, a young boy whose life is uprooted when his family decides to move from the bustling Bronx...

You Can Fly, Little Bird is a touching children’s storybook by Tuula Pere with full-color illustrations by Alexandra Burda. Serene is a newly hatched chick, the last of three eggs in her parents’ nest. Her mother worried when she took so long to hatch compared...

With the increasing usage of the media, technology, and the internet, finding one's voice and identity requires a great amount of effort and will in today's world. Considering this, it is extremely important to teach children early in life that they can be themselves and...

In You Can’t Quit Lil Peter You Just Can’t by Tasche Laine and Peter Valdez, we are introduced to a little boy who has trouble staying interested in anything that he attempts. This particular time it is soccer that he wants to quit and his...

Life can be wonderful and inspiring, but it can also be frightening. How do we deal with things that frighten us? Like the fiery dragon in our fairy tale imaginings? Or the music concert where we have to stand on a stage in front of...

You Gotta Have Heart is a coming of age novel for children and preteens written by Bruce Bernstein. Alan Michaels was excited and just a bit nervous about his first day of classes at Sensei Hideki’s School of Karate. He was the first boy from...