Bugs, Tweety, and countless other well-loved characters can all thank one man for giving them a voice in movies, television, and radio, but before Mel Blanc became an actor, he was a precocious boy with mountains of energy and... Read More

A boy hears the call of an owl, feels the pull of the moon, and communes with a giant oak. "Wake", from Shawn Dougherty, follows his dreamy nighttime foray into the surrounding woods. Watercolors from Leah Busch complement the boy’s... Read More

Confidently rocking a bright red hand-me-down pocketbook, Charlie’s quiet courage shines in Belle DeMont’s delightfully inspiring "I Love My Purse", a tribute to being unapologetically true to yourself and embracing individuality, be... Read More

An enchanting holiday twist on an old fairy-tale classic finds the big bad wolf stalking a basket-carrying little girl on her way to grandmother’s house, or rather, Bubbe Basha’s. Traditional latkes, candle lighting, and retelling... Read More

Everyone knows that roosters herald the morning, but one song-loving fowl shakes up the barnyard, turning night into day with his incessant cock-a-doodle-doing, in "Wakem the Rooster: Up All Night", a rollicking bedtime adventure from... Read More

Fusing art and science, James Gladstone’s "When Planet Earth Was New" explores over four billion years of transformation in climate, geology, biology, and more as an uninhabitable environment ever so slowly teems with life from the... Read More

With humor and a holiday sense of wonder, Santa ushers Blitzen, Vixen, Prancer, and friends into bed in "Good Night, Reindeer" from Denise Brennan-Nelson. Simple verses mimicking the style and rhythm of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight... Read More

When their orchard mysteriously comes under attack, Fatima and her grandfather rely on a cluster of unlikely allies to save an important crop in Mireille Messier’s "Fatima and the Clementine Thieves". Beautifully accented watercolors... Read More