Suffused with supreme empathy, M. Darusha Wehm’s "The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human" is a probing speculative novel about the seductive landscapes of one’s memories. In New Zealand in 2043, life is more equitable.... Read More

A dreamy boy with an active imagination plays riverside with his mother in this tale about the pleasures of letting your thoughts drift. He floats on an inner tube past dreamscape scenes of children high up in the trees and neighbors... Read More

Its exquisite, atmospheric collage art evoking feelings of displacement, this empathy-building picture book focuses on refugee families around the world. Children walk with bowed heads beside their parents, or sneak a few moments of play... Read More

Gorgeous, dreamy, surrealistic illustrations are used to illuminate the early life of famed French Jewish mime Marcel Marceau in this biographical picture book—a story of “brushstrokes and bombs” that is a treasure for children.... Read More

A passionate couple from different sides of the Soviet divide avoids discussing their inevitable rifts in Yelena Moskovich’s sultry, wrenching novel-in-verse, "Nadezhda in the Dark". During a “black-milk,” mournful winter, as... Read More

In this imagination-awakening, sympathetic picture book about homesickness and becoming your own heroine, Ren is crushed when she learns that her family is going to emigrate, leaving her grandmother, whose story times are a highlight of... Read More

Sharp-minded Carrasco can be a bit literal for his own good in this curiosity-lauding picture book about untangling metaphors for oneself. When a space-invading neighbor he’s avoiding declares him a “strange bird,” it’s enough to... Read More

Nou, a Hmong girl, loves her home, though some people are determined to make her family feel unwelcome. Following an act of vandalism, Nou reflects on the racism that they, and other Hmong people in their community, face. She begins to... Read More