An educational primer on a year in the life of Alaska’s ringed seals is delivered through the vehicle of Natchiq, a seal pup, and her mother, Siku. The story uses wildlife photography, snaps from scientists, and computer-generated... Read More

Annabel Karmel’s My First Cookbook encourages children to learn about cooking and find delight in both food and food preparation. Karmel is a celebrated United Kingdom children’s cookbook author who was awarded an MBE for her... Read More

"Nurse Florence, What Is a Heatstroke?" is an instructive picture book that reflects on a medical consequence of climate change. In Michael Dow’s informative picture book "Nurse Florence, What Is a Heatstroke?", curious children learn... Read More

"Nurse Florence, Why Do We Have a Belly Button?" explains one of the strangest parts of the human body in a manner that’s accessible to children. Three friends make fascinating discoveries about anatomy in Michael Dow’s book "Nurse... Read More

"Loyola Kids Book of Seasons, Feasts, and Celebrations" ably explains the inner workings of the Catholic liturgical year. Amy Welborn’s religious book "Loyola Kids Book of Seasons, Feasts, and Celebrations" presents and explains... Read More

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