“Shoes . . . Are You My Mate?” by Jennifer Moran and Camille Brown is a nonsensical children’s book in which one of the shoes in a pair of soccer cleats, Lefty, believes it is a better, more serious soccer player than the other shoe,...

“Who Lives in the Sea?: Ocean Animals of Hawaii,” written by Monika Mira, is a beautiful children’s story that will be read and enjoyed over and over. Baby asked Mommy who lives in the sea in Hawaii and she replied that a little rock crab...

"Mandy Princess of La La Land" is a fable/fantasy for children. Mandy and her cousins are very much attached to their abuela, which is Spanish for grandmother, who reads to them and tells them stories of Cuba, where she had grown up. She tells them...

“Small Hangers” by Amy H. Fraher is something of an enigma; it is a children's book written for parents. Not unlike the 1986 classic “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “Small Hangers” is destined to draw out a veritable flood of tears from the aching...

"Alphabeti-cool" by Rebecca Bielawski has taken alphabet books to a new level, by incorporating both the upper and lower case letters on each page. Seeing it on these pages makes me wonder why EVERY alphabet book doesn't do this? Kids have to learn more than...

We all know what the ‘Terrible Twos’ refers to, and Kanika Wilkins has so vividly captured this phrase in her new book, “Terrible, Too.” On the day Nikki turned two, she not only turned two years-old, but she went into that terrible stage too. She...

"What Daddy Did Today: A Father's Bedtime Story" by Walter Wally, and illustrated very nicely by Judith Bicking, is a vividly colorful, very imaginative tale of derring-do for a father to read to his children at bedtime. It details such heroics as saving a lion...

"Sabrina's Buttons" by Terri Kelleher is a fun story for young children. The use of bright and vivid colors throughout is sure to maintain the interest of the child, and one of the primary purposes of the story is to help children develop skills of...

It is not Super-Man, it is Manner-Man! I thoroughly enjoyed Sherrill Cannon’s new children’s book “Manner-Man.” Ms. Cannon has a unique ability to teach children very valuable behavioral lessons through her awesome writing. And the rhyming style of writing makes the story fun and enjoyable...

An easy, simple way to teach positive affirmations to your children. A new way to teach the alphabet to the young ones. Each affirmation is a joy to read with important meaning. Every child is special in his or her own way and the best...