Sweet story with pleasant illustrations offers a beautiful gift of the heart to author’s grandchildren. Remove from Bambi the essential character of the hunter and the comic relief of Thumper, and the beloved children’s classic... Read More

"Runabouts" is a brightly colored picture book that will engage readers with its story of fun-loving friends—who happen to be boats—enjoying the summer sun while at the same time coping with bullying and the dynamics of friendship.... Read More

People often wonder whether nature and nurture affect a child’s destiny in equal measure, and P. R. Slimko’s debut novel True Calling grapples with this conundrum and declares that one’s inherent nature always shows through. The... Read More

There is a divide in the methodology of children’s picture books: Some are intricately planned from beginning to end in order to address fundamental questions, fears, or dreams of children, while others arise more organically, from... Read More

Thanks to its small size and distinctive sound, the ‘ukulele has been lampooned in everything from literature and film to comic strips. But Jim Tranquada and John King hope to change the instrument’s image by exploring its legacy in... Read More

In the early 1960s, with the Soviet Union threatening to build a wall to separate East and West Berlin, Louisa Meier, a young American postulant, is sent to Munich by her Wisconsin convent. She has been assigned to learn German so she... Read More

The Old Testament is filled with names that inspire greatness, perseverance, and courage. As readers explore these lives through the scriptures, they can see that each personage had strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures. The... Read More

Millions of people suffer from chronic pain. The overwhelmingly accepted approach is to treat such pain with medication, at least in Western medicine. Dr. Kuny Suzuki believes this is wrong for two key reasons. First, he says, relieving... Read More