"Your Journey to Successful Parenting" is an insightful parenting guide in which a child psychologist sifts through a variety of situations the parents of young children may face, proffering commonsense solutions. Clinical psychologist... Read More

An angry woman’s enduring pain is soothed by her introduction to a loving girl in the fabulistic children’s book The Tale of the Wicked Old Woman and the Very Nice ’Beast’ of Crouch End. Lance Lee’s meandering fable The Tale of... Read More

Minty, born enslaved in 1822, is impossible to contain: “she / is soil, seed, root, tree, / stem, flower, air, breeze, / stream, river, waves, sea, / Sun, moon, a planetary jubilee.” As a child, she has visions of the Promised Land;... Read More

Raised on myths of Cheese Mountain, an enterprising mouse thinks he’s made a grand discovery on a night when the moon is particularly round, yellow, and bright. Though the moon is quite far away, he decides that “Even if something... Read More

Twin sisters embark on a mission to save their father’s soul in Guadalupe García McCall’s fantasy novel "Fall of the Fireflies". When their father is injured in a mysterious attack, Delia and Velia set out to find the evil spirit... Read More

Tackling the complex issue of climate change, Ani Dasgupta’s "The New Global Possible" offers hopeful solutions. The book’s optimistic introduction sets the stage for six fact-packed chapters documenting the climate crisis.... Read More

Rhys Charles’s "Dinosaurus" is an up-to-date and informative reference book that’s packed with quality science, useful illustrations, and interesting trivia. The book’s first and largest section is a dictionary of dinosaurs, with... Read More

A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel "The Notted Island". The rest of the world has been visited by long-awaited Colour, but Last Island remains in black and white. To complicate... Read More