In Now I’m Really Mad: A Story about Controlling Anger, a picture book written by J.J. Shegog and illustrated by Muhammad Tahir, a little Black girl, Rita, has a problem controlling her temper. She is reprimanded by her parents for being mean to her younger...

Kids love superheroes! Even better, kids love being superheroes. Donna Glass has written a cookbook with that in mind. Be a Superhero in the Kitchen enlists kids in helping to make the food that they eat. She starts her book with a list of superhero...

Mrs. Paddington and the Silver Mousetraps by Gail Skroback Hennessey is set in 18th-century London. Mrs. Paddington is a wealthy woman and has been invited to the Moonlight Ball. All the fashionable ladies will be there and each of them will have a very elaborate...

The latest book in the EQ Explorers series is Ruvi Rhino Lost Her “No”: Set and Keep Boundaries! by Kim Linette. It starts in the grasslands outside a village with a girl named Daya. She is enjoying her trek when she is alerted by some...

Do you think you know the story of Hansel and Gretel? Well, think again? Sibling Wars is the newest entry in the Fairytale Fraud series by Katie Pye. We meet Hansel and Gretel and the witch, but this version has a little twist. Instead of...

Who does not love penguins? In Marybeth Wishart’s book, Parker the Purple Penguin, she has written a timely story about bullying. Parker enjoys all the things most penguins love; snow, sliding, water, and swimming but he does not look like all the other penguins. The...

Little Miss Grubby Toes' feet were always grubby because she never wore shoes. Outside, inside, all around, you would always find her without shoes. Her toes were the worst because she loved squishing them in the mud. Little Miss Grubby Toes was usually good at...

Oval Man by Mary Davis Gage is a story about an unusual superhero. Shapes abound in this wacky story. Oval Man lives on planet Ovaliscious with his wife Ovalah and his dog Ovaltina. One day his nemesis Triangularus, who lives on the planet Isosceles, decides...

A Dog Named Trouble Goes to a Forever Home by Anthony Gonzalez is a feel-good story about a huge Saint Bernard. Trouble starts out at a shelter where his new Mom and Dad pick him up and bring him home. Trouble has some anxious moments...

The Day the Screens Stood Still written by R.L. Ullman and illustrated fabulously by Buhmi Loupito is a book all middle grade kids should read—and parents too. With all the blessings home computing has brought us, some bad things have come along. Like taking us...