Dreamy colored pencil illustrations elevate this alphabet book to a work of art. “Inspired Iguanas Improvising on Ice” and a “Unique Unicorn Using a Unicycle” are just a few of the quirky creatures children will come across in... Read More

This almost wordless picture book imagines the origins of cave paintings in the Pleistocene. A group of early people battle treacherous conditions and face dangerous animals as they travel in search of food and shelter. A young girl... Read More

In Sarah Gerard’s spare and elegant novella "The Butter House", a woman seeks solace and contemplates her future while she settles into a new home with her boyfriend and two cats. The woman and her boyfriend leave Brooklyn for an... Read More

Heather Camlot’s "The Prisoner and the Writer" tells the story of the Dreyfus Affair for early readers. In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason against France. He was sentenced to prison on remote Devil’s Island, where he... Read More

The youngest in a large family living on a farm, Clover has trouble making decisions. With her brother’s encouragement, she decides to accompany him to the river, but a lost goat coaxes her back into the woods. Faced with many choices... Read More

The “wonders [are] infinite” in this surreal early reader. Franca, who’s afflicted with ennui, relates a fairy tale dream to her two sisters. To chase down its queen, they head for the forest, their escape evading adult notice.... Read More

This nature- and community-centered self-help activity book for youngsters introduces gratitude as a continual, life-giving practice. It suggests that being grateful can begin the moment you wake up, and can extend into each moment of... Read More

Upon learning of her adaptive scriptwriting accomplishments, we can fix the explanation for Evie Christie’s complex use of motivation, conflict, pathos, and trauma—humanity’s theater writ large in her work. That she does it with... Read More