All things nocturnal and furry come alive in this unusual story of a baby bat learning about his surroundings. After a fall from his customary perch, and with Pluribus the rat as his guide, the little bat encounters all of the other... Read More

The late graphic designer Saul Bass is known for his striking film title sequences for Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Psycho. This reprint of his classy children’s book about a young boy who lives in a small town outside Paris... Read More

Jealous–Accepting. Same–Different. Tricky–Truthful. So reads the provocatively spare text accompanying lush illustrations of all manner of animals doing extraordinary things. Why is a gerbil looking out a train window? Do hedgehogs... Read More

A little boy is displaced from his home when he climbs aboard a cloud that sets sail above his Japanese city. Sora is treated to a birds-eye view of a construction site, an amusement park, and a traditional kite festival. When he falls... Read More

Cutout silhouettes of animals and vivid patterns in contrasting colors anchor a series of rhyming questions and answers about farm life. For example, “Mooing Cow, for whom do you wait?” opens onto “This maid stepping with a very... Read More

The terms “board book” and “profound” are not often found in the same sentence. But this trio of well considered titles is far from typical. "Color Blind" questions whether souls have a color; Such Small Things anticipates the... Read More

In the hands of a less talented creator, "My Friend Dahmer" would find its place alongside other “True Crime” books, volumes that mostly give readers the gory details in superheated prose, but which provide little insight into how... Read More

Murder in the first degree: a chilling and terrifying charge for anyone. For Richard Jaffe, however, it’s the very first step in one of the American legal system’s most important causes. Having spent almost his entire legal career as... Read More