As knitting becomes increasingly popular, it has branched beyond garments and blankets. Knitting toys and oddities, such as Japanese-style amigurumi—small and whimsical knit or crocheted people and objects—is on the rise. Combine... Read More

The town of Tintown is in trouble, even though the hurrying and scurrying rats who live there don’t seem to notice. For years they have consumed and polluted without thought, and now Tintown, as authors Linda Mason Hunter and Suzanne... Read More

More than eighty prints executed over fifty years (from 1956 through 2006) tell the story of engraver Rosemary Kilbourn’s fascination with, and reverence for, both the practice of looking closely and the natural world that mostly... Read More

The challenge of putting together a short-story anthology is giving readers enough variety of styles and voices while still finding stories that fit comfortably with one another. "Daughters of Icarus"is a diverse collection of... Read More

Latasha Gandy, the precocious, dynamic protagonist of Latasha and the Little Red Tornado, is back in this winning sequel by Michael Scotto. She’s busier than ever with her mom, friends, a new gifted-and-talented program, and of course,... Read More

Sir Frederick Treves, the London Hospital surgeon who studied the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), wrote of him, “I supposed that Merrick was imbecile and had been imbecile from birth.” The conviction was no doubt encouraged... Read More

A trio of talented orphan sibs follows a map created by their late father, a famous explorer, without knowing where it will lead. Witty references to the future appear in technology, fashion, and speech, and a plucky eleven-year-old girl... Read More

When Hilda and her mother move to a new home in the city, the little girl’s wonderfully solitary journeys into nature necessarily cease. How she manages to satisfy her need for independence while assuring her mother of her safety is... Read More