Delightfully absurd, imaginative, and fun, W.B.’s adventures will make for great read-aloud fare. "The Splendid Baron Submarine" is a summer adventure story full of unexpected danger and wacky surprises, and is funny from its first... Read More

The book offers a rich landscape to explore, one that will be new and appealing to many children. Linda Harkey’s Hickory Doc’s Tales is full of adventure and mischief relayed from the perspective of animals. Its stories are silly and... Read More

The book is great for silly, imaginary fun and may be very helpful for families that struggle with their own relationships. "Treasure of the Magical Mine Moppets" by K. J. Blocker is a creative and entertaining story about Pappy, Tom,... Read More

The book offers an opportunity to empathize with people in another part of the world. If You Were Me and Lived in … Cuba: A Child’s Introduction to Culture around the World by Carole P. Roman asks children to imagine themselves as... Read More

In this entertaining book, each child has their own highly relatable reason for wanting to find Bigfoot. Jessica Lee Anderson’s "Uncertain Summer" is a fun juvenile adventure full of great lessons. Everdil Jackson knows that her family... Read More

Karina Yan Glaser’s "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" is a thoroughly charming book. For six years, the Vanderbeekers have made their home on the bottom two floors of a brownstone in Harlem. Mr. Vanderbeeker grew up in the... Read More

"The Girl with the Red Balloon" is a thought-provoking look at modern German history through a lens of magic and time travel. Ellie’s class trip to Germany is supposed to be a fun spring-break adventure. When visiting the Berlin Wall... Read More

"Kiska" is the heart-wrenching story of a fourteen-year-old girl living on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska at the beginning of World War II. Her ordinary, happy life in a small hunting village quickly changes when, after Japan invades... Read More