Small fingers will be eager to open and close creatively shaped panels in Chris Embleton-Hall’s sweetly engaging Noah’s Amazing Ark: A Lift the Flap Adventure. Uncover running tigers, pecking parrots, and flying doves as Noah, his... Read More

With themes on accepting strangers and responding to others with kindness, this is an optimistic, promising tale that bridges fantasy and the everyday. An Unexpected Guest at My Birthday Party, by Alice Vanderpool, introduces Max, a... Read More

The Listen & Live Adrenaline series, by definition, haunts the listener. In this cassette audiobook, extreme survival stories cause lasting images of desperation, narrow escapes, cold, pain, fear, starvation, and yes, cannibalism.... Read More

“The sea is not cruel, but it is sometimes without mercy,” Willis says in his introduction to this collection. “Godlike, the sea seems truly boundless. I see the sea every day and I still fear it.” The stories he has compiled... Read More

Willis, in his introduction, saysthe mountaineering meaning of “epic” is a climb gone wrong; just the opposite of its traditional definition. He, however, has done much right in compiling this collection of seven expeditions. Two are... Read More