Recycling is a wonderful early-nonfiction title for children ages six to nine. It discusses the importance of recycling, what kinds of materials can be recycled, and what those materials can be made into. Each page is accompanied by... Read More

"The Flower Girl Wore Celery" is a humorous story about Emma, who is asked to be a flower girl at her cousin Hannah’s wedding. Emma looks forward to dressing in a celery dress and meeting the ring bearer, and most of all to meeting... Read More

The excitement of an upcoming festival builds as a family observes the seasonal changes and makes preparations together, in "Is It Sukkot Yet?", by Chris Barash. Simple illustrations by Alessandra Psacharopulo combine nature and... Read More

Hijinks and hilarity ensue when a safari field trip turns into a hippo hunt as a rambunctious class and their beleaguered chaperone search high and low for the elusive mammal, in Julie MacIver’s "That’s Not a Hippopotamus!" Clever,... Read More

There is no happily-ever-after for this Little Red, but there are plenty of eye-popping, jaw-dropping twists in "Little Dead Riding Hood", part of the Scary Tales Retold series from Wiley Blevins. Channeling its Grimm roots, this and... Read More

Marriage of convenience? What could go wrong? Well, everything, in Lorelie Brown’s sassy new LGBTQ romance, Far From Home. In an attempt to solve their mutual problems—crushing student debt and American citizenship,... Read More

Unfortunately, for all the fire-breathers out there who also love a good book, dragons and libraries just don’t mix, and Julie Gassman will tell you why in "Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library", a rhyming misadventure through the... Read More

"Envoy of Jerusalem" is a captivating work of historical fiction. Helena P. Schrader’s Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian d’Ibelin and the Third Crusade is a detailed work of historical fiction that offers insight into the religious politics... Read More