What is the best pet for a young wizard? Rago receives a pet that has to learn a skill and a spell by the end of the school year. If pets do well they will receive a gold badge. Rago is given Zalon, a dragon...

Ready... Set... Frog! written by Katharine Mitropoulos and illustrated by Laura Watson is a modern-day fable about helping others while sticking up for yourself. When Frog learns about an upcoming obstacle race, he is eager to enter. However, it seems that every attempt he makes...

There is a reason for doing things a certain way. Sometimes it’s difficult for young people to understand why they must follow so-called rules, like going to bed at a specific time each night. Even adults have trouble understanding the need to go to bed...

Who doesn't love rhymes, right? Now imagine a picture book full of 19th-century illustrations with 21st-century rhymes. In Rhymes for Small and Large, Tom Hindley pens his poems alongside the work of German artist and painter Paul Thumann, who drew these illustrations for his book...

Rainbow Cat and the Big Tidy written by Julia Stebbing and illustrated by Nivya Kuirakose is a picture book about how a posse of creatures led by an attractive rainbow-colored cat and a dog with one shoe was formed to clean up a forest. Both...

Read-Aloud Stories with Fred, Vols. 1 and 2 Collection by Fred Olds and Margo L. Dill (first story), is a collection of seven children's tales that can be read to young children or can be read by kids on their own. I did not know...

Outstanding illustrations will attract children to Rhythm Rescue, especially the shining and sometimes reflective eyes in portrait close-ups while the wonderfully imaginative story by author Vicky Weber will keep them entertained. What a wonderful way to keep children entranced—they can help summon the main character’s...

In Ruby's Christmas Gifts by Nancy Oswald, Ruby is expecting a big Christmas Eve surprise, and as she waits for the surprise she goes stargazing, one of her favorite things to do. But her donkey, Maude, lets Ruby know her foal is missing, so they...

You probably remember Rapunzel, the little girl whose father gave her to a witch, who put her in a tower. Rapunzel had super strong long hair that the witch used to climb into and out of this tower. Then, in the original tale, a prince...

N. Reece Ho-Sheffield’s collection of children stories, Reece's Vintage Tales, carries inspiring lessons for any reader. The stories feature colorful characters, fascinating scenes, and powerful insights. In the story, “The Prince of Vanity,” a pompous and vain prince is eventually humbled when he realizes his...