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

Preterm birth is on the rise. In 2008, 12.3 percent of babies in the US were born preterm (before thirty-seven weeks), and the percentage is up from just 9.5 percent twenty-five years ago. The prevalence of preterm birth makes medical... Read More

If life is a game, then curveballs come out of nowhere and storms threaten even the brightest days. Patricia Etienne’s collection of twenty poems and two short stories chronicles the pursuit of happiness in a world filled with tragedy.... Read More