Two siblings learn the value of caution and not keeping secrets in Cynthia Y. Whited’s picture book.

Mama and Papa Coney decide to move their growing family away from the Coney Colony and build a shelter on the far side of Prayer Mountain. Mama selects a good stone surface for a foundation, and Papa begins […]

A great-grandmother goose bestows wisdom to her family in Jo Ann Schmitt’s picture book Great Granny Goose Says.

Great Granny Goose is visited by her flock of great-grandchildren (“the Greats”) and decides to teach them an important lesson: that “There is only one thing in this life that you can call your very own.” The […]

Paula Bailey’s Peaches and Jake Celebrate Christmas is a children’s story illustrated with photographs that follows two dogs on Christmas as they meet and play with their new toys.

Peaches and Jake awake Christmas morning to learn there are presents for them from Santa. While Jake is sleepy and lazes in bed, Peaches is eager […]

A woman sets an example of how to keep the world clean in Martha Goldner’s picture book Litter Lady Leads in a Litter-Filled Land.

Litter Lady is “old and caring.” She has a cane with a pointed tip that allows her to pick up litter wherever she sees it, and she disposes of gum wrappers, […]

This entertaining, thoughtful middle-grade book proposes that “a person must treat others with respect” no matter their differences.

Eager to play, a crocodile named Sandbank grabs Sarita, a human villager, and pulls her into the Sillibilli River. While asking him to let her go, Sarita calls him “Mr. Crocodile Person.” Intrigued by that name, and […]

Boopable! is a cute, rhyming picture book that asks readers to imagine “boop”ing various animals.

The narrative dives in with no preamble, asking, “Would you be shocked if you booped a fox?” and continues asking similar rhyming questions about seven other animals. Each question is accompanied by a full-page illustration of the face of the […]

Told from the perspective of a young child afraid to get his/her first haircut, this picture book addresses the anxieties that can build up before unfamiliar situations.

The narrator, illustrated in a gender-neutral way, speaks directly to readers, pondering questions about what might happen at a first haircut. Will he/she need bandages? Will his/her hair […]

In this third travelogue in the winning The Tales of Charlie Wags series by Sofie Wells and Ali Barclay, the titular pup wags his way to Paris.

The story is told in compelling rhyme. When Charlie wishes to travel somewhere, he wags his tail—“swish, swish, swish”—and he finds himself there. This time, he arrives in […]

A young girl who has blocked out the truth surrounding her mother’s death forms a life-changing friendship that enables her to confront her fears in this nostalgic tale aimed at middle grade readers.

In the winter of 1964 at All Saints School in Springfield, Massachusetts, smart-mouthed sixth grader Montura (Monty) Moriarty bristles when her teacher […]

The Adventure of Love by Janelle and Abigail Orsborn is a sweet, instructive, beautifully illustrated picture book that serves as a guide to life and love.

The book is written in rhyming verse, with a narrative style that will be intriguing to young readers. For example, the first two pages read: “Even though you’re little/ […]