Celebrate the Hindu festival of lights with a family whose parents teach their children about the tradition as they shop, clean, and snack. There are a few interruptions to their joyful planning, but these surprises do not dampen the... Read More

Deep into twilight, imaginative Bo is enjoying himself too much to want to wind down and get ready for sleep. His mother makes him dinner and draws a bath; they exchange thoughts about all the ways that other animals doze. Oh-oh!: here... Read More

The youngest in a large family living on a farm, Clover has trouble making decisions. With her brother’s encouragement, she decides to accompany him to the river, but a lost goat coaxes her back into the woods. Faced with many choices... Read More

This board book designed with modern families in mind follows cheerful Mila, who looks forward to her days with Dad: he always takes an interest in her stories from their time apart. Mila’s father is warm and welcoming to her friends,... Read More

Kit is a witch who has lived alone for a hundred years—until Caboodle, a bat with a mangled wing, comes tumbling through her window one Halloween. When magic fails to fix Caboodle’s wing, Kit insists that he stay until he is healed.... Read More

Evoking the classics with its jaunty, silly rhymes, this story follows a magical, playful menagerie whose members embrace their oddities and unique abilities, and do so with happy results. In addition to its circus-performing members,... Read More

A man who is always cold shivers even in his three-stove house; no visitors can stand the heat. Finally fed up, he heads to the shops, piling on coat after coat and earning himself the name Mr. Coats. Now too big to fit in his house, he... Read More

"Easter: McEaster Valley" is an imaginative children’s story in which a grown-up’s life is transformed during a walk in the woods. In Walter R. Hoge’s philosophical early reader "Easter: McEaster Valley", a man is introduced to a... Read More