The last great battle of the Indian Wars comes alive for children and adults in accurate, illustrated text. Custer’s Last Battle is a gorgeously illustrated, fictionalized yet well-researched account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn... Read More

When Hilda and her mother move to a new home in the city, the little girl’s wonderfully solitary journeys into nature necessarily cease. How she manages to satisfy her need for independence while assuring her mother of her safety is... Read More

A woman befriends an injured, feral fox, and it adds significantly to her measure of delight in the world. Is she selfish to make friendly overtures to a wild animal? Will it come to harm? A beautifully illustrated story about a... Read More

Within America’s increasingly urban population, fewer and fewer children really understand where their food comes from, or the nuts and bolts of how it’s produced. In Tom and Pearl’s Udder Stand, Tom Paris manages to entertain kids... Read More

A dig site in Montana reveals a great adventure for a group of schoolchildren from Los Angeles, when a nine year old finds the buried skull of a teenaged Tyrannosaurus Rex. The remainder of the fictionalized story of a real event... Read More

Proponents of enriched environments for children will be delighted to discover Mereki and Pangari, whose book-filled home contains several computers, Rolling Stone, and Mad Magazine, but no television. When the children pause from... Read More

Part of the We Both Read series, We All Sleep invites adults and children to read aloud together. The left-hand page is for adults, and highlighted in the simple text is the word the child will use on his right-hand page. Two phrases are... Read More

When Margurite’s beloved Papa Jacques, “the oldest and most famous book painter in all of Paris,” is having difficulty completing an illuminated manuscript for his patron, the Lady Isabelle, Marguerite offers to help. Her father... Read More