Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s excellent book "Small Shoes, Great Strides" covers how, in November of 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost made history by going to first grade—as the first Black students at a public school in... Read More

In Beatrice Bowles’s fantastical coming-of-age story "A Ring of Riddles", a fifteen-year-old girl receives a mysterious ring at her grandmother’s funeral. "A Ring of Riddles" contains several subplots that are introduced early in the... Read More

The unconditional love between pets and their people is honored in this picture book about a resilient champion pony—a tale inspired by a true story. Whenever Posey’s kids get too tall for her, she is passed along to the next child;... Read More

In Krysta Tawlks’s suspenseful fantasy novel "Children of the Wild", a teenager inherits the power to transform into a mythological creature. In the early twentieth century, fourteen-year-old Elbert is a farm boy living in the Salinas... Read More

A rainy day, a teacher’s headache, and a canceled trip to the zoo spell disaster for the class of Room 4 in this humorous picture book. First, Flynn blows a raspberry; then, twins Ruby and Phoebe start calling one another ugly. One by... Read More

With the goal of teaching children a means to communicate before they can speak, this picture book provides forty practical signs for parents to teach. “Eat,” “Help,” “Water,” and “Potty” are among the signs within the... Read More

Ellis Nelson’s nostalgic fantasy novel "Down the Treacle Well" pays tribute to Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland through its story of American brothers who are transported into a Victorian world. Ben and his younger brother Kyle are at... Read More

A little girl has always wanted a dog; finding one transforms her life for the better, though he’s not quite like the other dogs in the neighborhood. When her dog disappears, the girl is devastated, until an unexpected new friend—and... Read More