"Shoe Print Art" is a versatile artist’s guide which uses the shoe shape as a jumping-off point for limitless expressions of personal creativity. Karen Robbins’s colorful, friendly art guide Shoe Print Art: Step into Drawing is about... Read More

With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

The life of Mary Myers takes flight in this captivating biographical picture book about a barrier-busting woman scientist. Mary Myers—who later took on the name Carlotta—was a pioneer in aeronautics, though her contributions have... Read More

Serenella Quarello’s delightful and thoughtful reference text "Extinctopedia" focuses on various animals in danger of disappearing, with suggestions for what can be done to save them. Quarello catalogs more than 150 types of animals,... Read More

Bright watercolor illustrations follow the true story of a book’s remarkable journey through generations and across multiple wars. In Spain in 1350, a Jewish bride and groom are gifted a handpainted Haggadah, a text that guides the... Read More

Memorializing the unsung space travelers whom the US first launched into orbit, Dawn Cusick’s charming history book "The Astrochimps" zooms in on peculiar and enlightening moments in the race to put a person on the moon. In the wake of... Read More

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s excellent book "Small Shoes, Great Strides" covers how, in November of 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost made history by going to first grade—as the first Black students at a public school in... Read More

With the goal of teaching children a means to communicate before they can speak, this picture book provides forty practical signs for parents to teach. “Eat,” “Help,” “Water,” and “Potty” are among the signs within the... Read More