A ten-year-old child manages to be hopeful, tragic, fun, and endearing all at once, despite dysfunctional parents. "Six Feet off the Ground", by new novelist H. C. Turner, is the emotionally gripping tale of three lives unmoored. It’s... Read More

It is no mean feat to craft a fantasy world that is different, familiar, interesting, and fresh. Gregory S. Close has done that and more with In Siege of Daylight: Book One in the Compendium of Light, Dark & Shadow, a weighty and... Read More

Sweet story with pleasant illustrations offers a beautiful gift of the heart to author’s grandchildren. Remove from Bambi the essential character of the hunter and the comic relief of Thumper, and the beloved children’s classic... Read More

"Runabouts" is a brightly colored picture book that will engage readers with its story of fun-loving friends—who happen to be boats—enjoying the summer sun while at the same time coping with bullying and the dynamics of friendship.... Read More

People often wonder whether nature and nurture affect a child’s destiny in equal measure, and P. R. Slimko’s debut novel True Calling grapples with this conundrum and declares that one’s inherent nature always shows through. The... Read More

There is a divide in the methodology of children’s picture books: Some are intricately planned from beginning to end in order to address fundamental questions, fears, or dreams of children, while others arise more organically, from... Read More

Thanks to its small size and distinctive sound, the ‘ukulele has been lampooned in everything from literature and film to comic strips. But Jim Tranquada and John King hope to change the instrument’s image by exploring its legacy in... Read More

In the early 1960s, with the Soviet Union threatening to build a wall to separate East and West Berlin, Louisa Meier, a young American postulant, is sent to Munich by her Wisconsin convent. She has been assigned to learn German so she... Read More