Snutt voyages to a distant planet to discover what he can—wonderful tuffetills, blossibums, and flewimols—only to find that he’s terribly lonely away from home. When he eventually meets a Waft, with whom he can share his beautiful... Read More

“One more story pleeease, just one more!” begs the dad who won’t go to sleep at bedtime. Told in first person by his exasperated son, and wonderfully inventive in both story and illustration technique, this reversal of fortunes... Read More

Boris the cat awakens late one day to find his shadow missing! In its place is a paltry version nothing like his usual sultry companion. A rollicking search eventually leads him to the culprit, a mouse who exchanged his own shadow in... Read More

Could you identify a shy fish? How about a bored or shocked or brave one? This sweet book about recognizing emotions on the faces of others (all fish here) will inspire thought and conversation about what it’s like to feel these often... Read More

It seems that every few years, feminism gets a new literary paint job. We’re now in the era of “third wave” feminism, with a strong focus on criticism of gender stereotypes and media portrayals of women. In academic circles, this... Read More

By the age of three months, Alberto Hidalgo-Robert was already the size of a one-year-old child. By seven years, the rotund little boy known affectionately as “El Gordito,” little fat boy, weighed 120 pounds, his dependence on food... Read More

At the end of The Survivors, Sadie Matthau had returned to her family and their walled city in Montana, along with the Winters, another clan of immortals. Twenty-eight Survivors had left the enclave and developed a taste for human flesh,... Read More

Kira Vermond wrote this book to give children basic financial literacy; but for the word kid‘s in the title, it would be an ideal go-to for most of their parents as well. In few pages, she manages to introduce concepts as diverse as... Read More