Current brain research has established a positive link between preschoolers’ exposure to music, rhyme, and rhythm, and future reading ability. This offering, one of a series of titles created by a college professor with a master’s in... Read More

This fictional tale about the origin of music resounds with sounds of the African jungle: yelping hyenas, hooting owls, screeching parrots, chittering monkeys, and snorting crocodiles. Then one day, when an elephant stubs his foot on a... Read More

When Mister Giotto runs into trouble trying to finish his Nativity fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel, young Mario dreams up a wonderful solution in this holiday-inspired introduction to the work of Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di... Read More

Hoping to find a handsome, affluent husband, Fatima—a spinner by trade—joins her father on a trip to several islands in the Middle Sea. On the way to Crete, a violent storm destroys her father’s ship, killing everyone except... Read More

With sheep on skates and a pig in the goal, the idea of a “farm team” is imaginatively reinvented in this hockey-themed Cinderella story. Farmer Stolski’s animals love to play hockey, despite the fact that they’ve failed to bring... Read More

Those who believe that the December holidays have become too much of a multilateral commercial arms race will like the quiet simplicity of ABC’s of Christmas. This book features traditional holiday decorations and peaceful home scenes.... Read More

When Anna learns that her beloved grandfather has died, she wishes for one more day with him. Her wise mother asks, “What would you do in that one day?” Anna replies that they would play checkers, and her little brother, Joey, says... Read More

Red Fox’s dinner plans involve a visit to old McCloskey’s farm in this delightful story, filled with action and such noisy movements as chickens flapping their wings and a howling dog. Old McCloskey hears the turmoil and adds to the... Read More