Can you imagine a life without fresh strawberries? Or even a life without honey? I can’t. The mere thought is very disturbing. But, then again, so is the thought of life without honeybees. If we lose our pollinators, and honeybees are very significant pollinators, then...

In Harold Peabody and the Magic Glasses by Dawn Kopman Whidden and O.M. Faye, Harold is travelling back to his mother's childhood town in Louisiana after his Navy SEAL father was killed in Afghanistan. Harold hopes they can begin to rebuild their lives and he...

Letter From Santa Claus by Waring Jones is a children’s fantasy adventure that mixes a bit of reality right along with it. The time is early 1949 and Robin, our main character, is a young boy who catches pneumonia and spends a considerable amount of...

Windhollows: Book 3, Windhollows and the Axe Breaker is an action adventure story for children written by Trayner Bane. With everything that Billy Molskin has been through, his life is just about to get even more complicated. Between learning new things about his dad, and...

A work-at-home dad is shocked to find an elephant in his bathtub when he goes to take a morning bath. Then he finds a gorilla sitting on the kitchen counter, a camel in the study, a cobra in the bedroom window and so many other...

Windhollows Trilogy Book 1: Air of Vengeance is a teenage action/adventure story written by Trayner Bane. What if ever since birth everyone considered you a worthless, useless nobody and everyone you knew made fun of you and treated you as if you were a doormat...

Windhollows Trilogy, Book 2: Darkness Falls is a kids' action/adventure story written by Trayner Bane. Billy Molskin, a thirteen-year-old boy who has finally found true friends, is beginning to learn who his arch enemy is, and the reason for all of the mishaps that have...

I Saw a Starburst to Flames by J. R. Lamar comprises about a hundred poems formed as quatrains. This has the effect of giving them a rhythm that draws the reader inexorably onwards. Each is colorfully illustrated, very often with a wry sense of humour...

It is said that each child has a designated elf who knows them well and checks in on them and their good and bad behavior. They also do unique things like baking treats with Mrs. Claus, making toys that squeak, feeding reindeer in...

Lily Luna's Journey to Space by Maren Beattie is a wonderfully written children's story that begins with Lily looking out her window at the stars while her ginger cat, Pollux, is lying beside her and rubbing his little black nose against her cheek. As the...