Collected by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, the essays of "Who’s Black and Why?" represent a fascinating look into the eighteenth-century invention of the concept of race. In 1741, the Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of... Read More

Amusing and informative, "The World According to Dogs" is a graphic how-to guide to keeping dogs happy and healthy. The book is written from a dog’s perspective, a conceit that provides many opportunities for humor, as with a dog... Read More

Cristina De Stefano’s "The Child Is the Teacher" is an intimate, comprehensive biography of Maria Montessori, whose revolutionary approach to early childhood education provoked storms of controversy, brought about a new appreciation of... Read More

In this primer on the impact of plastic waste in our oceans, a young boy turns from rescuee to rescuer when his new friend is in peril. The boy’s small red boat is no match for the roaring, watercolor sea. After a whale, Blue, comes to... Read More

Its illustrations vibrant and cartoonish, this story begins in a forest area that’s gone quiet at summer’s end. The woodland creatures, who miss their human “friends” and the fun chaos that they bring, decide to return the favor... Read More

In English for the first time, radical 1970s feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne’s manifesto "Feminism or Death" is bold in suggesting the role that feminism might play in saving the environment. An iconic text—one of the first to... Read More

Wildflowers don’t just happen, as is revealed in this bright, delight-filled board book about the interconnectedness, and interdependency, of nature’s tiniest features. Indeed, a field blanketed with poppies and daisies and heather... Read More

In the graphic novel "The Lions of Leningrad", Russian adolescents fight to survive German attacks, starvation, and Joseph Stalin’s iron-fisted rule. Following a gunshot at a Leningrad concert in 1962, a man is arrested. He recounts... Read More