Another creative take on children’s picture books is Secret Garden: The Amazing Life of Caterpillars by Fei Fei Chiam. Simple yet engaging, it poetically narrates the life cycle of butterflies in short bursts of verses per page. While the grownups among us are well aware...

Catterfly is Born, written by Alma Hammond and illustrated by Emily Hercock, is an adorable story of a caterpillar that comes out of her cocoon as a cat with butterfly wings and antennae. Even though Catterfly is very different than the other butterflies, she explains...

Kid Astronaut: Space Adventure is a children’s science fiction/education book written by Laura Knight. It’s the year 2050, and scientists around the world are engaged in monitoring the planets in our solar system for signs of life and any changes in their temperatures, geologic conditions,...

The Blue Witch (Witches of Orkney, Book One) by Alane Adams is a stunning fantasy story about a young witch named Abigail. Her first year at Tarkana Witch Academy is not going her way. A girl named Endera and her friends have been making Abigail’s...

Have you ever wondered where the elves came from? And do they go to school to learn how to read and write? Annabelle has wondered these things and so much more. She’s fortunate, in many ways, and most of all in the fact that she...

Dragon Boy by James Murdoch begins with 10-year-old Eric. It's not that he does not like school, but he does like dragons. When his attention wavers during class, he daydreams that he is soaring into the skies as a dragon. When Eric wakes from his...

My Dad is a Mad Scientist is a science fiction adventure book for children penned by author Matthew Cox, and forms the first book in The Adventures of Ubergirl series. Twisting the traditional conventions of the superhero genre in new and interesting ways, we meet...

The Bridge Monster by Michael J. DiPinto is the story of the curious and mischievous monster who lives under drawbridges. He always hides and only very few people have seen glimpses and peeks of his tiny little hands and seven-toed feet. Even the bridge tenders...

Bradley and the Magic Carpet, written by Julian Hilton and illustrated by Jacqueline East, is an adorable children’s story about a young boy named Bradley. Picking blackberries so his father could make blackberry pie, Bradley ate some of the fruit as they picked. Then he...

In Mystery at Point Beach: Alien Invasion by Kate Jungwirth and Deborah Ann Erdmann, a small group of mystery-solving kids gets a phone call about the possibility of alien activity. As Dominic, Forest and Sailor find clues that make the mystery much deeper than just...