A supportive group of pigeons is determined to get their friend’s art into a museum in this cheeky story about creativity, friendship, and the subjectivity of art. Alex is different from his friends: he visits art museums and enjoys... Read More

The stark contrast of winter woods lends a foreboding atmosphere to this fairytale-like story about fear and courage. Sylvie had always been fearless, until she caught a glimpse of a wolf in the woods. Sylvie is afraid that no one will... Read More

Lili has always felt out of place, like a tiger in a world of ducks. She tries to be a duck, worried she will be rejected for being different. Eventually, she confides in her grandmother, who encourages her to embrace the tiger. The... Read More

A pirate searching for a parrot and a clumsy penguin collide in this lively tale about friendship. When a penguin falls aboard his ship, a lonely pirate mistakes it for a parrot; he paints it, tries to teach it to speak, and feeds it... Read More

Sean Ferrell’s novel "The Sinister Secrets of Singe" is a complex morality tale—an epic-scale steampunk vision of troubled family relationships. In the near past, the residents of Liberty bucked for autonomy against their sovereign,... Read More

Charlotte Wilde’s "Eclectic Witchcraft" is a thorough, enjoyable introduction to witchcraft as a practice. The book lays out all of the fundamentals of witchcraft, starting with working with energy. It covers protection work, the... Read More

In Burhan Sönmez’s literary novel "Stone and Shadow", an Istanbul cemetery is the site of loves lost, recast, and reunited. In the 1930s, a traveling flutist introduces an orphaned street musician, Avdo, to a gravestone carver. Avdo... Read More

Jennifer Berne’s rhyming picture book "How the Sea Came to Be" is an educational and concise explanation of how the ocean and its marine life formed. Chronicling 4.5-billion years of terrestrial evolution, beginning from stages of... Read More