This entry into the hagiographical Little People, Big Dreams series celebrates feminist icon Gloria Steinem. She’s depicted with her signature streaks, raised fist, and very cool shades from the first, as she learns to challenge the... Read More

"Sparrow" is a dreamy fairy tale riff on the adage to be careful what you wish for. In Brian Kindall’s fantasy novel "Sparrow", a boy in a village that suffers from inertia wishes on a falling star. In this work of magical realism,... Read More

"The Forbidden Fruit" is an emotionally vulnerable memoir that covers transformative spiritual experiences from around the world. Tina Scott’s touching memoir "The Forbidden Fruit" is about love, death, and the afterlife. In this... Read More

A young person invites Death to share her wisdom in Salena Godden’s ethereal novel "Mrs. Death Misses Death". Wolf is a writer trying to write about what they have known since they were nine: Death. Indeed, after impulse buying an... Read More

A greying man discovers that tea time for one is no match for purring companionship when a strange cat hops into his hat, de facto adopting him. Their days together are bright. Still, the man fears losing Hat, and locks him inside—a... Read More

What begins as a grey tale, and a somewhat everyday tale, transforms into something more when the cherry trees start to blossom above harried travelers’ heads. Their pink petals glow, and the color emanates outward, until the once... Read More

Push and pull the tabs of this colorful, calming story to reveal how various creatures start their days—and maybe give children some ideas of what to do with their own. As the sun rises over the crest of the distant hills, the forest... Read More

An autobiographical odyssey from Panama to Texas, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s poetry collection "Stepmotherland" ponders split identities through art, current events, and religion. Of African and Chocó descent, Holnes describes himself... Read More