How does a Jacaranda tree who struggles with feeling alone adjust to being in a place where no one seems to like her? When a stranger takes Jaca to a new place when she’s a seed, she grows slowly but not as vibrantly as was...

The Zoe-Chai Seed (Pearls of Wisdom – Book 3) was written by Catherine Ann Russell and illustrated by Brooke Connor. What a wonderful way to teach children about loyalty and true friendship with a story about a kingdom of animals of all sorts who live...

When you were a child, how many times did you hear the question, “What will you be when you grow up?” Kristina Schoettle deals with that question in The Restless Caterpillar: Heavenly Allegories for Children. The little caterpillar sees other animals doing things he would...

Tessa liked school until Luke started teasing her about being short. Teasing is a type of bullying that most children experience and most children wish they could make it stop. This book presents an interesting approach to figuring out how to stop the teasing and...

The Braggin' Dragon by Anders Roseberg is an educational picture book for young children. In a school full of different animals, a dragon is always bragging. The dragon tells his friends that they are doing things the wrong way, or that they are not as...

In Toby, Toby, Worry Free, written by Lucinda T. Grapenthin, Ph.D., and illustrated by Kevin Gosselin, an octopus named Toby is worried about riding his bike with his friends. Will he fall down? Will he get hurt? Will the other kids laugh at him? ...

How many types of cats do you know or would you recognize? I’m not talking about domestic cats or even the ferals that roam rural neighborhoods where someone abandoned them and left them to fend for themselves. I’m talking about the truly wild cats: the...

The Boogies and the Woogies is a work of children's fiction in the picture book and social issues subgenres. It is intended for young children who are accompanied readers or just reaching independent reading age and was penned and illustrated by author Marianne Reed. In...

The Squiggly Wiggly Worm by Lindsey Coker Luckey is a fun, silly rhyming story. The squiggly worm starts on an adventure one day, meeting various creatures along the way. Each meeting results in a new rhyme and another descriptor being added to the worm. When...

Samantha and Stacey are two dolls who used to live together, but their owners grew up, and the dolls ended up in separate homes. Samantha wants to find Stacey and one day she met Murry Mole. They plan to go out at night to different...