In How Sunny Sees It: A Journey to Reading Bravely, by Lesley D. Nurse, the author shows how the main character, Sunny, a young child, would rather play than study. Nurse shows how some children can be mean and taunt a fellow child, making the...

Huff…Puff…Grind! by Lois Wickstrom is an educational children’s picture book that is a modern-day twist on the long-told tale of The Three Little Pigs. In this version, the three pigs are not just any old run of the mill average-minded pigs. They are highly educated...

Let us go with Hannah and Amy to Kenya and have a look at their real-life adventures in Hannah & Amy Go To Kenya by Sabrina Rizk. Kenya is on the east coast of Africa, right at the equator, bordering the Indian Ocean. Let us...

Gus and Jack watch the kids getting into the yellow school bus every day and they are envious of them and the fun they have traveling on the colorful bus. They hope to be on it someday. When the driver gets out and leaves the...

“Life on earth is wonderful,” said Mom, “but heaven is better.” Heaven is Better is a unique children’s story in which the author, Shirley Alarie, creates a dialogue that is designed to spark the imagination of the reader. Heaven is a topic often not very...

Meet William who was happy being alone and in his room in the story How I Made A Friend (My Crazy Stories Series) by Daniel Georges. He liked being in his room and making masks of clowns, pirates, and monsters. He liked to wake up...

When Anna and Levi break into their school one evening to recover assignment notes, they did not expect to be part of the ongoing mystery surrounding the school’s persistent strange noises and temperature changes. Finding two sweet mice in the basement changed their lives when...

Patrice McLaurin loves inventions. She has collected stories about inventions and inventors and assembled them into his book, Have You Thanked a Kidventor Today? Some of the inventions she features are the television, trampolines, the toy dump truck, the popsicle, and earmuffs. The illustrations by...

In Humongous (& Cool) Words For Kids by SB Hilarion, siblings Hao Finley and Sabine Yi Lee are eager philomaths or, in other words, seekers of knowledge. Follow their journey through the alphabet as they discover the meanings behind over 800 words. This may...

Father Sky and Mother Earth were in deep discussion to create light to remove the darkness when the world was created. They went to Fire for help and he created a brilliant fiery yellow ray of light called the Sun. The plants, the people, and...