In this imagination-awakening, sympathetic picture book about homesickness and becoming your own heroine, Ren is crushed when she learns that her family is going to emigrate, leaving her grandmother, whose story times are a highlight of... Read More

All it takes is a bit of creativity to make modified snack time enjoyable in this lighthearted picture book about finding fresh meaning in holiday traditions. By the third day of Pesach, Sammy is tired of matzah. That’s when his... Read More

Modeling how compromise and caring communication can be used to overcome emotional conflicts, "Ida’s Really Big Feelings" is an edifying picture book. In Karen Bartlett Durack’s educational picture book "Ida’s Really Big Feelings",... Read More

Lauding creativity, kindness, and love, the warm picture book "Our Treasures Within" builds upon a message from Pope Francis to instill optimism and hope. Peter H. Reynolds’s endearing picture book "Our Treasures Within" encourages... Read More

A Korean American girl helps her mother prepare to host Thanksgiving in this warm, celebratory picture book about the joy of intermingling cultures. Though the two sides of her family have quite different tastes, the girl hopes to... Read More

An adorable puppy goes on a whirlwind holiday adventure through Europe, ferried by the magical wave of his tail, in this endearing, culturally edifying series entry. With five stops, including in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,... Read More

In the big city where Lisa lives, all she hears is silence, and all she sees are people on their phones. Wanting to help people see beauty again, she sets off through the countryside, through a forest, through a labyrinth, to the sea,... Read More

Against black-and-white backdrops, blended hues of tan and brown are the only colors in this picture book that honors the true leaders among lions: the lionesses who work together to raise their cubs, feed their prides, and teach the... Read More