An angry woman’s enduring pain is soothed by her introduction to a loving girl in the fabulistic children’s book The Tale of the Wicked Old Woman and the Very Nice ’Beast’ of Crouch End. Lance Lee’s meandering fable The Tale of... Read More

A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel "The Notted Island". The rest of the world has been visited by long-awaited Colour, but Last Island remains in black and white. To complicate... Read More

A girl encounters Yokai, creatures from Japanese folklore, in Jem Yoshioka’s spirited graphic novel "Folk Remedy". Maple works with her mother at the family’s apothecary in a remote town in Japan. Influenced by her friend Kunio,... Read More

A fourth grader adopts a creative way to remedy the gulf between how she feels inside and how others perceive her in Julie A. Swanson’s insightful novel "North of Tomboy". No one in Jess’s Northern Michigan rural family, church, or... Read More

A work of unusual wisdom, Yorick Goldewijk’s story collection "The Tree That Was a World" introduces a tree and the creatures surrounding it. In these pithy fables, a spider resists consuming flies, dismayed that its perfect webs never... Read More

A middle school student daydreams and grows into her friendships and family relationships in the fun, goodhearted novel "The Scott Fenwick Diaries". Featuring bunnies, boys, and b’nai mitzvah, Kristin Nilsen’s entertaining... Read More

Across the six interconnected, amusing short stories of Olly Owl, Fairy Tale Lawyer, justice is sought for fairy-tale beings in both civil and criminal courts. In Leisa Braband’s merry children’s book Olly Owl, Fairy Tale Lawyer,... Read More

"Ellie Ment and the Material Matter" is a witty, warmhearted novel about kindness, truth, and science. In Bertie Stephens’s wonderful mystery novel "Ellie Ment and the Material Matter", an aspiring scientist investigates a blaze at her... Read More