Marina Stephens’ Phillip M. Feelgood and His Circle of Friends is a compilation of stories with moral lessons to be learned. There are six stories which feature animal friends and the challenges they overcame. The first story is about Hippopotamus Peter and how his views...

Persephone, by Simon Spence, is the Greek myth that explains why planet Earth has seasons. Persephone was the daughter of Demeter (the goddess of the harvest) and Zeus, king of the gods. Hades, the god of the underworld, saw Persephone picking flowers and decided he...

Pippin's family lived on the river and she had been kayaking since the age of five. Now at nine, she could name all the animals on the river. She knew many of the turtles by species. When her next-door neighbor, Tommy, tried to take a...

Cottontail Elementary School always closes out the year with the Gopher Games, an event-filled week with races, relays, and revelry. Nerdi and the twins, Artsy and Sporty, looked forward to these games because it gave them another opportunity to add a trophy to the walls...

Principal Mikey is a wild, bright and highly amusing book for children written by author Derek Taylor Kent and illustrated by Paul Louis Smith. Intended for middle-grade readers of seven to twelve years old, this fast-paced chapter book follows our hero Mikey McKenzie, a scientific...

Pirate Bear is a work of children’s adventure fiction written in verse, penned by author Sonya Annita Song with illustrations by Javier Gimenez Ratti. Written as a picture book with a strong moral lesson, the story follows the central character Pirate Bear as he begins...

Puffy Gets Angry is a children’s picture book written by Rich Pfeiffer and Susie Post Roberts. Puffy is a puffer fish with anger management issues. When he gets angry, Puffy puffs up into a round ball with spikes, scaring his school friends away as a...

Purim is a Jewish holiday in late winter/early spring. It celebrates saving the Jewish people from Haman who was planning to kill all of the Jews in his country, the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire. It is a time to dress up in costumes, to read...

The little kitten was sad and lonely. He sat quivering on the curb, trying to find the scent of his mother, brothers, and sister. He sensed footsteps coming near him and heard voices. His mother, brothers, and sister ran away when they heard footsteps. The...

Bina Trunk watched a show about a princess one night and the next day morning she found Mama Trunk's red silk scarf and tied it around her neck. She also found a sparkly crown and a pair of glittery shoes and felt like a real...