Dashes of color enliven intricate pencil drawings of a variety of fuzzy and feathered creatures in this picture book that explains big and small ways of choosing kindness. A sloth feeds baby birds berries with a pair of chopsticks... Read More

Inspired by Julia Sørensen’s experiences as the mother of a child with Down syndrome, this heartfelt picture book addresses the difficulties and celebrates the joys of raising children with special needs. Marcel’s parents are both... Read More

Ladies, gentlemen, and children of all ages will delight in this biographical picture book about a circus strongwoman who bucked social expectations. Evoking vintage circus posters, the illustrations apply a strict palette of golden... Read More

A classic fairy tale is refreshed in the picture book "The Twelve Ravens", about a girl’s persistence in saving her brothers from their wicked stepmother’s curse. In Diana Kizlauskas’s lavish picture book "The Twelve Ravens", a... Read More

Rich colors and spellbinding patterns add a dreamlike quality to this fable about being true to yourself. Panther wishes he was bold like Tiger or dazzling like Leopard, so he sets out in search of a way to be special. He fashions a mane... Read More

This tongue-in-cheek picture book celebrates the creation—and the conclusions—of stories. The unnamed narrator describes their childhood desire to be an endfixer, “someone who fixes the ends of stories” because some endings are... Read More

In the sweet novel "The Best Day Ever", a boy learns about self-worth and acceptance from a menagerie of new friends. Set in a garden teeming with adventures, K. D. McPhillips’s novel "The Best Day Ever" is about new beginnings and... Read More