This collaboration between an Inuit throat singer and a children’s librarian investigates the origins of fog. Young readers are invited to accompany a hunter on a springtime journey across the tundra, where he encounters more than he... Read More

Learn the history of macaroni and cheese and pizza, discover the ancestor of the apple, and speculate about what your tortilla is doing when you think it’s just lying there. Taste far-flung places on the globe just by opening your... Read More

This tender, first-person story of a young girl who moves into an eyesore of a house with her mother invites readers along her path of embarrassment to eventual pride as she learns humility and the bounty of asking for help from her... Read More

This fourth installment in an award-winning series follows young Anton through his day in St. Petersburg. He awakens to the strains of “Swan Lake” being played on the piano, visits the Hermitage Museum on a school trip, and practices... Read More

What happens to the air molecules we breathe in and out? Where were they last, and where are they headed? Helping children to understand how their bodies are connected to the earth and other living beings, this smartly conceived book... Read More

The Japanese Chin dog at the center of this tale has a jet-setting lifestyle all readers will envy. Reminiscent of Eloise‘s Manhattan milieu, the book’s lavish and spirited design and illustrations more than make up for a mediocre... Read More

Young Hazel and Tilly and their family enjoy a camping adventure full of discovery: “You can take a bath with fish when you are camping,” we learn. Visited by fireflies, deer, and crickets, the girls come to feel at one with their... Read More

With a nod to the fact that containers often interest kids as much as what’s inside, a web designer meditates on the many uses of this most practical of packages: “A box can keep your secrets … or reveal an unexpected surprise.”... Read More