George Lange’s emotive, retrospective photography collection "Picturing Joy" captures the personalities of his subjects. In one exuberant image, a group of young African refugees plays on the beach, their likenesses caught mid-leap.... Read More

Painterly illustrations track the parallel stories of two families in this picture book about the pain of leaving home and the hope of brighter days. A mother warns her son to be careful of road construction as they head to a carnival;... Read More

The evocative prayers collected in Danielle Dulsky’s Bones & Honey invite contemplation and transformation. Across thirteen sections devoted to archetypes and corresponding themes (the Heathen Queen represents empowerment; the Bone... Read More

First published in Hebrew, this amusing picture book tracks a girl and her father as he valiantly tries to get her to sleep. Having only two legs, Shabbat coming every seven days, and things falling down rather than up are just a few of... Read More

In Kathleen Fine’s thriller "Girl on Trial", a teenager is prosecuted for manslaughter. Emily is sixteen. On top of her more ordinary concerns, her mother, Debbie, is an alcoholic; she’s developing an addiction to alcohol herself;... Read More

Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur... Read More

"The Christmas Book" captures the nostalgia and iconography of Christmas in full-color pictorial splendor. With examples spanning from the tenth through twenty-first centuries, the book focuses most on the United States and Europe. After... Read More

In Shannon Takaoka’s charming novel "The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne", a struggling girl finds a magical journal that lets her rewrite her own life. In 1987—a period captured via references to music, fashion, and... Read More