Magical realism merges with celebration of family heritage in this story of a Puerto Rican girl who seems to enter a large mural painted on a wall across the street from her home. She dances with the pleneros to the plena music, but when... Read More

Precocious Bella and endearing Harry are on vacation again, this time in Beijing, China, where they toboggan on the Great Wall, explore the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, practice tai chi, and snack on sweet ears and peking duck.... Read More

So many books about bullying encourage self-confidence and compassion, but Erin Frankel and Paula Heaphy take it a step further in "Nobody!" by showing the thoughts and feelings of a bullied child over time as he learns how to approach... Read More

A heartrending tale of parental loss, "Dragon Fire" teaches about the debilitating effects of terminal illness through a somber allegorical story of a mother dragon whose flames diminish then go out. The vividly patterned backgrounds on... Read More

Adorable animals and their babies inhabit the pages of this educational board book with soft pastel colors. From penguin and chick to whale and calf to kangaroo and joey, among others, the parent-child pairs look out from their... Read More

When a wolf doesn’t want to be dreary old gray anymore, his identity crisis leads him to try out an array of colors each day until he becomes comfortable in his own skin … er, fur. His teardrop-shaped body and uneven eyes give him a... Read More

Uno! Dos! Tres! Learn to count with this bilingual picture book featuring wrestling luchadores and the rambunctious boy who defeats them all. The brightly colored masks and speech bubbles give the book a comic-book style as, from page to... Read More

"Walking with the Enemy" is Read’s story of a three-year engagement with a religious cult and the miraculous event that gave her the courage to escape. Shortly after the 1993 standoff between law enforcement and David Koresh in Waco,... Read More