Stylized illustrations and a charming narrator bring this stranger-than-fiction story to life. After Henry Miller, an Englishman who made a fortune mining silver in Idaho, passed and the bank swindled his wife and son, they were left... Read More

Amy Rose shares her experiences with growing up in a cult in her graphic memoir "Occulted". In 1997, at the age of nine, Amy Rose saw the Hale-Bopp comet in the sky. It corresponded with a tragedy: the members of the nearby Heaven’s... Read More

Jennifer Berne’s rhyming picture book "How the Sea Came to Be" is an educational and concise explanation of how the ocean and its marine life formed. Chronicling 4.5-billion years of terrestrial evolution, beginning from stages of... Read More

In Nothing Could Stop Her, Rona Arato tells the remarkable life story of trailblazing Jewish American journalist Ruth Gruber. Born in Brooklyn in 1911 to a Jewish family from Russia, Gruber was unstoppable from the start. Intelligent and... Read More

In this biographical picture book, a girl loves all creatures—even busy, tickly spiders. Drawing on happy memories of her bucolic childhood and her tapestry-weaving mother, she becomes a writer, a sketch artist, and a sculptor. At... Read More

From the Yosemite Conservancy comes this picture book about the history, evolution, and importance of fire—and the importance of respecting and adapting to it. From the first fire 443 million years ago to the devastating uncontrolled... Read More

Skye, a girl living in an Indigenous community, draws a crowd with her stories, which were first told to her by her grandfather. Skye relays five stories, all focused on animals and all with a unique message and moral. The expressive... Read More

Inspired by a true story that brought light in a dark time, this picture book shows how even a spark of hope can make all the difference. In 1945, Gertie the duck built her nest on a precarious post in the Milwaukee River. The local... Read More