A young boy carves a path through grief in this moving picture book. The color scheme is simple to complement the complex subject matter: grayscale with mindful touches of red. The cloak of loss over the house is made clear in subtle... Read More

Watercolors and digital paints in every hue under the stormy sky are used to tell the story of an underappreciated forest dweller: mushrooms. Dreamy illustrations portray a variety of mushrooms with an eye for detail, and the titular... Read More

The Baby’s Classics series takes a turn for the Gothic in Dracula, based on Bram Stoker’s brooding tale. The core components remain in place, with Jonathan and his fiancée, Mina, visiting the creepy count in his crumbling castle,... Read More

This unconventional alphabet book teaches children their ABCs alongside respect for language diversity. Here, f is for butterfly—flutur in Albanian—and octopus starts with a t—tako, from Japanese. Sixty-nine languages are... Read More

In bright, dynamic, comic-book style, an older sister attempts to teach her bookish younger brother not to be afraid of monsters. Little Brother sees monsters everywhere; he surrounds himself with green tomes about them, attempting to... Read More

Happy or sad, making a mess or cleaning it up, “I love you all the time” is the comforting refrain repeated through it all in this picture book about unconditional love. Soft-edged illustrations complement the gentle rhyme scheme,... Read More

Push and pull the tabs of this colorful, calming story to reveal how various creatures start their days—and maybe give children some ideas of what to do with their own. As the sun rises over the crest of the distant hills, the forest... Read More

Inventive illustrations composed of photographs of found objects layered within simple backgrounds of shapes and patterns tell this story of a dog and a cat who are befuddled by a magic ball. When Tag’s ball starts rolling around by... Read More