Well, why don’t we read books to owls, anyway? “Because they’ll keep asking…whooo????” A boa constrictor might want to hug you good night, and a hippopotamus might... Read More

With a credible civilization dating to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that China is responsible for an astounding number of ideas and inventions. In this third book in the... Read More

The trade route that connected the East with the West was not a single road but a network of land and sea paths: the Yellow River to the Ganges, Athens to Beijing, the Black Sea... Read More

The struggles of nineteen-year-old Sophia Alface, a real-life landmine victim from Mozambique and depicted in Mankell’s previous novels Secrets in the Fire and Playing with... Read More

"A Native American Thought of It" is an educational book written by Rocky Landon, an Ojibway band member and Native Studies consultant from Ontario, with children’s book... Read More

“A barn can have a horse in it.” That line, considered but rejected as the opening of Charlotte’s Web, inspired this appealing picture book that gently muses on what can... Read More

Twelve-year-old Mariatu Kamara often prayed for new clothes, for a good harvest, or for a nice man to marry when she got older. Then, one day in 1999, the Sierra Leone native... Read More

“Talking honestly about sex is a GOOD thing…And bro, feeling less nervous and more confident is going to help you make smarter deci-sions,” the authors write. It’s easy... Read More

There are a variety of ways into the underworld—through a door, across a river, via a hole in the earth—and in nearly every culture brave souls and reluctant victims have... Read More

Anyone who has marveled at humans’ ability to bore through mountains or build a network of subways and roads under cities and rivers, or even service areas under theme parks,... Read More

The witch, “darkness knitted together, a thousand nights sewed into blackness without stars,” inhabits the lake near the small Italian village where the young friends, Leo... Read More

In an age when war is often high-tech and the enemy impersonal, the events of September 11 put terrorists and victims face to face in the narrow confines of four doomed... Read More