In Tagalong Caitlin by Katie Lang-Slattery, Caitlin loves going to camp every summer. Her mother works there, so it’s not quite the same as if Caitlin is one of the campers. But she wants to fit in and she wants to go on the three-day...

The Legend of the Stinky Sock is a short story by Laura Riley for young children. The story starts with Conner, a young boy who plays for the Little League baseball team called the Rockets. Conner was very upset by the poor performance of his...

The First 12 Days of Preschool by Jeanette Bradley is a fun and rhythmic picture book depicting the first twelve days of preschool. The story spends one page talking about each day, using a short paragraph that coordinates with the Twelve Days of Christmas song....

The Ranatanland Tales by Lloyd Chiasson is a children’s adventure. Gus is nine years old and having the time of his life. Staying with his grandparents while his mother goes to fetch his father, he is both excited and fearful as a hurricane batters the...

The Mystery at Moz Hollow by A.K. Hicks is a charming adventure set in the Minnesota wilderness with a fun scavenger hunt and mystery that allows Emma to get a look into the past. Emma and her best friend Laura tag along with Emma's mother...

Trez, Frez and Inez, written and illustrated by Deb Neeley-Garcia with the help of her grandkids, is a fabulous book for preschool kids and looks to be one of a series, this one titled The Workshop. Author Neeley-Garcia calls it “a story of fun, friendship...

The Red Fence by Ed Damiano is a fun and educational book for children with a powerful message behind it. In the town of Vanderloo, where everything is the same, a new family arrives and causes chaos and upset with their different colored fence. The...

The Ice Cream Truck at Midnight, written and illustrated by Ken Priebe, is a collection of drawings, short stories, and a poem about a Disk Jockey called DJ. The poem is the most striking completed work in this collection. In exacting rhyming meter, the poem...

In The Cherry On Top by Lauren Eresman, we are introduced to two cherries named Molly and Polly. Their stems are conjoined together, but they couldn’t be more different. While Molly is a more outgoing cherry that loves to be the center of attention, her...

Magic is all around us; all we have to do is believe. Emiko, a young Japanese girl, is visiting her grandparents. In their garden, she discovers all kinds of amazing, magical things and creatures. There’s even a fairy, who shares love and magic with the...