Nina Allan’s exquisite and strange "The Dollmaker" is a postmodern fairy tale, both whimsical and aching in its appeal. Andrew felt lost among his contemporaries until he discovered that he had a gift for fashioning discarded and... Read More

Beginning from the beginning—the Big Bang, to be precise—this gorgeous exploration of our solar system is replete with informative flaps, flip-up factoids, and beautiful collages depicting the colorful night sky and life planetside.... Read More

With four arms and a terrible sense of direction, Victor is not the most outwardly efficient interstellar taxi driver—but he is the one you’ll most want to pick you up by the end of this zany, alien-laden, humorously detailed picture... Read More

This clever fold-out title begins with a girl on Earth whose body may be bound by gravity, but whose imagination is not. Her eyes starry, she looks up, up, up to the sky, her sight passing children in the apartments above her,... Read More

With subtle celebrations of exploration and inventiveness, "Moon’s First Friends" works toward the Apollo 11 landing from a singular perspective: that of the moon upon which the vessel landed. The beautiful, lonely moon waits for her... Read More

Jaunty rhymes and warm, generous family activities mark the beginning of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in this picture book that’s designed to fill young eyes with wonder. Children will learn about the holiday’s exchanges of... Read More

Fast and frothy, Garrett Leigh’s "The Edge of the World" is a romance that takes place on the road between concert venues, as a musician on the rise finds unexpected help with chasing his roots. Shay is the enigmatic frontman of an... Read More

Across the whole of the twentieth century, one glittering and palatial estate looms over the Catskills: the Hotel Neversink, host to presidents and movie stars and the exclusive domain of the immigrant Sikorsky family. Adam O’Fallon... Read More