Tender, pithy, and steeped in respect, Never Sit if You Can Dance is a light-filled biographical work. Jo Giese’s radiant tribute, "Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother, Babe", gathers brief essays that illustrate a... Read More

A Mermaid’s Journal is a sweet middle-grade fantasy in which mermaids live among us. In Melissa G. Goodmon’s middle-grade fantasy, A Mermaid’s Journal, a young mermaid writes about friendship, love, and being true to yourself.... Read More

In Christian Felt’s eerie and wondrous "The Lightning Jar", an outwardly ordinary Swedish family’s history is plumbed for its most extraordinary dreams and aspirations. Amanda and Karl spend their summer perched on the edge of a... Read More

An enjoyable short story and image collection, "My Peaceful Place" reminds us that no obstacle is too big to overcome with the right mindset. My Peaceful Place: A Collection of Stories and Pictures to Comfort and Heal by Renee Heiss is a... Read More

"A Garden Wall in Provence" is a pleasing romp through the countryside of France, complete with quirky neighbors and croissants. Carrie Jane Knowles’s "A Garden Wall in Provence" is an utterly charming novella about mothers and... Read More

Often jubilant in its celebration of the everyday, there’s much in this poetry to delight in. Don J. Metivier’s playful and enticing collection, Poems from the Mind of a Madman, expresses admiration for things both commonplace and... Read More

Ah, the make-believe hideouts children create under beds, in closets and large cardboard boxes, etc.—tiny refuges for uninterrupted play, a secret rendezvous location to meet with imaginary playmates, or even a safe place to escape... Read More

This ambitious book full of politics, humor, and linguistics will fit nicely between copies of Walden and Catch-22. In Play on Words: A Grand Satire of Commercialization, Mike Harrison twists together a blueprint for a libertarian... Read More