We live surrounded by holes. Things we may take for granted, like doorways and windows, are really holes in our walls. They let us go from room to room or go outdoors. If we open a window we can let the breeze come in. A...

Francis did not want to go to school; he was nervous, and his mom tried telling him how things can turn out better than expected. Francis was still nervous about his first day of school but his mom told him about a secret superpower termed...

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 been blamed for something you insist was not your fault? That’s what happens to Declan in the book The Go-KartAstrophe (Kids’ Court Book 2) by Caron Pescatore when his friend Greg blames him for crashing his go-kart. Declan insists that something was...

We are all uniquely different, from our sizes and shapes to the colors of our hair and skin. Some of us walk on two feet, while others move around in wheelchairs. Some of us wear glasses and are shyly extra smart, while others like to...

Take a step back in time to the late 1960s. Life for young people in this era was simple, unassuming, and very different than it is for young people today. Without all the techno-gadgets of the twenty-first century, and without even a TV for many...

Everyone loves a good pun and children will enjoy Once “a Pun” a Time. Children love to tell jokes to parents, friends, and other family members. A pun is a figure of speech that uses similar-sounding words or exploits multiple meanings of a term. Written...

Daddy, Can You Bring Me the Moon? by Justin Vaughn, a 30-page children’s picture book, is a short story of a father and a daughter who share a slice of nighttime together on a beach. The story shifts focus when the daughter asks her father...

We have so much to be thankful for. Even when we think we need something else to make our lives perfect, we already have more than we need. Instead of wanting, we really need to show more gratitude, more thanks for what we do have,...

The world is full of differences: big things, small things, young things and old things, things that fly high and things that go low, and so much more. These are opposites, but these are also differences. And there are many more examples: some are tangible,...