Sara Avant Stover’s compassionate guide for a heartbreak-illiterate world moves beyond grief and pain to nurture richer appreciation for life and the awakening of deeper, more mature personhood. Stover knows that heartbreak can be... Read More
Set in the Netherlands, Jaap Robben’s novel "Afterlight" is about an elderly woman’s work to discover what happened to her child. In the book’s present, Frieda is in her eighties. After her husband, Louis, dies, she is deemed too... Read More
This self-aware picture book turns “The Three Little Pigs” on its head. A writer starts writing the traditional story but keeps being interrupted; the pigs and the wolf have other ideas for the plot, setting, and their characters. In... Read More
This breathtaking picture book depicts the beauty and indomitable history of the islands of Hawai’i and the Polynesian people through the storytelling vehicle of hula. Through hula, a girl learns about the creation of the islands,... Read More
A sage, affirming picture book, Chilla Gorilla & Lanky Lemur Journey to the Heart models finding one’s calm in challenging situations via its fun story of a friendly adventure. A wise gorilla guides an excitable lemur toward... Read More
Morgan Shamy’s fantasy novel "The Stricken" introduces an atmospheric world in which people lead multiple existences. In one life, Clara’s only friend is a mysterious voice, Cael, that she’s heard in her mind her entire life. He... Read More
In Darcie Little Badger’s compassionate novel "Sheine Lende", memories live on through love. Aided by their ghost dog, Nellie, and their ancestral ability to awaken deceased animals from Below, Shane works with her mother, Lorenza, to... Read More
Written by a member of the Mincéirí (or the Irish Traveller community), this is an #OwnVoices fable about two brothers, two perspectives, and two not-so-different ways to belong. Two brother slugs are content traveling the... Read More