Joyce Major entertains us in The Orangutan Rescue Gang when Jaylynn has a connection with an orphaned orangutan because she also feels abandoned and lonely without her mother. Her father doesn’t understand the important need she has to rescue this wild animal and reunite it...

In The Bully Brigade by T.T. Floyd, as Cokey Michaels' mother arrives at Misfit Elementary, she hopes that this will finally be the school that can help her son thrive and make friends. Cokey has problems socializing, his fingers twitch and the smallest of things...

Meet Snowflake and Goldie Duck in The Duck Who Lost The Courage To Swim: Believe in Yourself - Get Rid of Fear by Bernice L. Dunlap. One Saturday, Snowflake went to meet Goldie Duck. She was sitting on the ground near the water and Snowflake...

An unnamed little boy has a funny idea of what it means to be strong. His pet parrot/imaginary friend, Bruce (who initially acts like the feathery green spirit of toxic masculinity) has the same view. Strength is nothing but brawn, stubbornness and pure machismo. When...

Toni is a tanager, a small but very colorful bird with a tweeting attitude. She is honest to the core, almost brutally honest, taking pleasure in taunting the tree toads for only having three toes. Terri, another tanager, scolds Toni, insisting that she consider the...

Billy “The Bruiser” Fenton was an all-star hockey player who played a mean game and loved it. He was one of the best hockey players out there. Everybody who watched him play thought of him as a genuine hero to the NHL franchise, and to...

The Thumb Book of Kindness (The Thumb Book Series) (Volume 2) by Tevin Hansen and Nichole Hansen tackles a very important topic; that of kindness and Thumb is going to help. Kindness is being nice and having respect for others. Being kind to each other...

The Mango Seed Doll by Karlene J. Froling is the story of Salon who was born in a tree covered by leaves, and hung there with her brothers and sisters. She was removed from the tree when she was big enough and placed on a...

The Angry Dragon by Michael Gordon is a children’s picture book. George has an unusual pet – a dragon called Joe. Joe is an angry dragon who throws temper tantrums when things go wrong. One day, while playing with their toys, George broke one of...

The Great Pillow Sham: An Allegory of the Donald Trump Presidency by Travis R Dunn is a symbolic children's picture book casting doubt on the current US president's transparency. A family wakes every day to the bane of their existence – the dreaded bedhead. They...