Fear of public speaking is a common phobia, and this is especially true for individuals who aren’t fluent in the local language. In Carla the Conqueror by Anna Maria DiDio, we meet a young immigrant from Colombia who only learned to read and write in...

Learning how to count should never be stressful for a child. This educational story allows children to learn how to count from one to ten using colorful farm animals and prompt pages. To make the counting game more fun and challenging, the pictures contain different...

Corbin Speaks Bee is a sweet, educational children’s picture book by Emma Pesis and illustrated by Divya George. Corbin’s not like any other kid – he can speak Bee. Well, sort of. He watches them carefully, and in turn, they teach him all kinds of...

Mind/Body connectedness is essential because it influences your body's response to external and internal energy. Although Connected: Discovering Your Inner Guides by Seema Desai with illustrations by James Ballance is geared to children, adults can benefit from the various tools provided here as well. Seema...

Can a Rock Grow? by Audrey Sauble is Book 3 of the Early Science Series. First, Sauble asks the question, ‘Have you ever seen a rock grow?’ Then she proceeds to explain how rocks change. Rocks change through different natural forces like gravity and tree...

Ronke is an energetic and vibrant young girl with a healthy curiosity and a tendency to get into trouble. She likes to play dress-up, school, pretend cooking, and many more. She also doesn't always like to be stuck hanging with her little brother, Bobo, and...

Have you ever heard of dyscalculia? It’s a learning disability that makes learning numbers difficult. Cassidy has dyscalculia. She’s nervous about starting a new school where the children don’t know her. When asked in class to say the numbers from 1 to 10, she gets...

Cornrows or 'canerows' in the Caribbean is a hair braiding technique that originated in Africa where the hair is braided to the scalp. Locs are a thin rope-like thread of hair created by braiding, twisting, or matting and these originated in India. The braids are...

Grandmothers are special people. Whether you call them Grandmother, Grandma, Granny, or Nanna, they’re still pretty special. With school out for the summer, what better place to visit than Nanna’s home. A young girl enjoys so many special moments with her Nanna, how lovely she...

Cleo-cat-tra the cat and her friend Mario the mouse were outside exploring the world of bugs. They followed a dragonfly that was fluttering above the water and watched a stink bug trudging through a hedge. Mario saw a spider in the barn and Cleocat was...