Searching through one of her old notebooks for short story ideas, Lucy Maud Montgomery found this scribbled note: “Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is sent them.” From Huckleberry Finn to Harry... Read More

In Browne’s latest book about Willy, the chimp (or is he a boy?) takes up painting, and produces his own versions of several well known masterpieces. Willy gives them his own titles and “stories” consisting of one or two line... Read More

A photograph is often the catalyst for recalling some childhood memory, and for the narrator of this book, it sets the stage for a lifetime of memories. In it, she is pictured sitting on her father’s lap as he reads aloud to her from... Read More

It is November of 1772 in Esterhaza, the summer palace of Prince Nicholas. During the performance of a new symphony by court composer Franz Joseph Haydn, the baffled Prince watches as, one by one, musicians stop playing, snuff their... Read More

Why do parents in Japan buy a Koi Nobori (carp banner) for a new baby boy? So he will “be like the koi, swim upstream, fear nothing and never give up.” This description of the Children’s Day Festival is just one of many holidays... Read More

To anyone intent on a perfectly manicured lawn, dandelions are known as a weed and a nuisance. In Dandelions, Posada offers a different view of this ubiquitous yellow flower. With a simple rhyming text she presents the flower as a... Read More

In a recent article in the Detroit News, students in a Royal Oak, Michigan, elementary school are featured learning about science through a new curriculum, which stresses hands-on experimentation. Student response has been extremely... Read More

In a recent article in the Detroit News, students in a Royal Oak, Michigan, elementary school are featured learning about science through a new curriculum, which stresses hands-on experimentation. Student response has been extremely... Read More