Embedded with references to children’s classics, including the works of Lewis Carroll and A. A. Milne, this jaunty, irresistible picture book follows a singsong adventure through the funky-animal-populated wilds. Children will be... Read More

Stricken with grief and fed up with “ink-laced pleasantries,” a bereft daughter takes to the trail, her ultimate destination uncertain, in Olivia Sullivan’s moving graphic novel "Oracles". Having lost her mother and flailed at her... Read More

Two adorable gnomes head off for a seaside adventure in this joyous picture book that models appreciation and care for nature. Little Gnouf is so excited to see the ocean that he spends days reading about it before he and Mirabelle... Read More

The poignant short story collection "King the Wonder Dog" is infused with retrospective melancholy. In Eleanor Lerman’s compelling short story collection "King the Wonder Dog", free-spirited artists, musicians, and wanderers of the... Read More

Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise... Read More

In Hannes Barnard’s dynamic coming-of-age novel "Nebulous: The Last Hurrah", teenagers seek refuge from an ominous storm cloud. Best friends Xandr and Rufus sneak out of their South African homes for a last chance at losing their... Read More

Yevgenia Nayberg’s entertaining graphic memoir recounts her eventful childhood in Ukraine. In 1986, as Halley’s Comet approaches, eleven-year-old Genya prepares to apply to the prestigious National Secondary School of Art. The... Read More

The heartfelt essays and poems in "Queer and Muslim" defend religion’s compatibility with queerness. Religion can be a means of liberation rather than oppression, said Imam Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead in South Africa in 2025.... Read More