A lightning rod for the imagination, German artist Blexbolex gives us People, a collection of silk-screened figures engaged in activities fascinating and mundane. A label identifies each subject; images on opposite pages create a... Read More

A tiny seed dares to be different from his brethren, taking on attributes of the creatures he most admires: a peacock’s feather to become beautiful, tiger’s stripes for bravery, and the trunk of an elephant fashioned from a blade of... Read More

Each Sunday during the late 1940s, British author/illustrator Mervyn Peake drew fabulous scenes of adventure for his young sons to accompany stories he sadly never recorded. Over sixty years later, his friend, fantasy writer Michael... Read More

Ferdie is having too much fun at home to be bothered to walk to school. His older sister, Viola, smartly entices him by whipping out his “superfast cape” and “rocket blaster boots” and they’re off in A Few Blocks. Alternating... Read More

Watch a garden come to life, as different elements are added to a young boy’s yard in numbers up to ten. The bold, colorful pictures in Counting in the Garden could easily adorn a shopping bag for a tony London department store. Making... Read More

Ronald Reagan is most often connected to Hollywood glamour and Washington politics. The fact that Reagan spent his formative years in the American heartland, living in a string of small towns in Illinois, has been almost entirely... Read More

Swiss national Lucinda Ruh was on top of the world when she made an international name for herself in the world of figure skating as the Queen of Spin. Ruh, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest spin on ice, may... Read More

Parents struggle endlessly to maintain positive, effective relationships with their children. This book’s insights come in bite-size nuggets that will stay with readers for far longer than the fleeting time it will take to read, but... Read More