This rhyming story of a puppy whose teacup has gone missing, imperiling his morning ritual, follows along as he searches for clues—and instead finds everything else, and everyone else, missing, too! His tummy rumbles, and his worry... Read More

Aria, a young girl in Afghanistan and an amputee, is nervous about going back to school. With all the benches being burned for warmth during the war, the girls in her school have no choice but to sit on the floor, which is unbearable for... Read More

Though he lives in a mansion filled with grand works of art, a fortunate man considers his greatest treasure to be his son. The two go on imaginative adventures through the painted worlds, and his son grows up to be kind and brave. After... Read More

A cogent message of love and acceptance is portrayed through the spare language and delicate watercolor illustrations of this diverse picture book. Children playing in a park gradually join together to form a single playful “circle,”... Read More

Illustrated in colorful, folk art style, this bubbly picture book embraces a whole world’s worth of love, with examples drawn from all around us. The rhyming text eschews dressed-up notions of affection, reminding the audience that... Read More

Nick Arnold’s enthralling illustrated history of medicine presents the facts in a fun, informative way. The book starts out with the basics, running through organs, cells, and the chemicals that form human anatomy. It also looks back... Read More

Dan Grunfeld’s moving memoir covers sports and family, as both he and his father had successful basketball careers. What makes Grunfeld’s story all the more compelling, though, is the fact that his grandmother narrowly survived the... Read More

With white backgrounds and stand-out colored-pencil illustrations, this picture book urges everyone to appreciate the everyday music found in nature. Bees bzzz-zzz and frogs croa-oak before a summer thunderstorm rolls in with drums,... Read More