I Celebrate My Skin by Nonku Kunene Adumetey teaches that we are born with different shades of skin color and although the colors differ, we have so much in common. Our skin is our biggest organ and keeps us warm in the winter and cools...

Zion the Magnificent and the Frightful First Day of School, written by Imeisha Williams and illustrated by Nareh Grigoryan, is a children's picture book that features a little boy named Adam who is not terribly keen on starting school. The book begins with Adam and...

Please Still Love Me by Jo Toddly is a beautiful children's picture book that tells a touching story to assure children they are loved and never alone. It also contains fantastic illustrations and a great life lesson. It shows us how to express our love,...

When children help others, they develop their self-esteem, learn to be organized, acquire better habits, work as a team, and become empathetic and responsible. It’s never too early or too late to help, and Compassionate Kids: A Children's Book About Kindness and Love illustrates this....

In A Mother's Journey: A Story About How We Became a Family by Kimberley Hall, we have a new mother writing to her child about the struggle she had to bring the child into the world. She wanted a baby so badly, but year after...

In Punk Wig by Lori Ries, we are introduced to a little girl whose mother has cancer and who is going through treatment. She finds the hospital strange, with her mom hooked up to a lot of machines. Her mother tells her that the medicine...

The Super Code by Kay Dietsch is a fun mystery and adventure book for middle-graders with a gifted girl at its core. In the town of Trisburg, a centaur named Bienor has muttered a dark incantation in a deep forest and is soon talking to...

For the Love of Laxmi: Everyday Desi Biases and the Imprints They Leave speaks about families in a contemporary way, with amusing content. The story begins with a family photo on the couch, a moment we've all been through, where all the relatives want to...

Pick any day of the year you want. Unfortunately, over 400,000 children are in foster care every day across the United States. This figure is appalling! Liane Joly in The Yellow Shirt shares some of the fears and frustrations felt by these precious children. If...

Pignoli the Pig is a children's adventure story by Inga Eissmann Buccella. High above a remote hilltop in Italy resided a happy family of pigs. But without a farm to provide for them, the family had to hunt and forage for themselves. To Mama and...