In Sunny Town, which is populated by a varied, upbeat menagerie, that “bunch of bonkers bunnies” is at it again. During a planned space launch, they usurp the places of the panda astronauts to head into the sky themselves. After the... Read More

Gorgeous, dreamy, surrealistic illustrations are used to illuminate the early life of famed French Jewish mime Marcel Marceau in this biographical picture book—a story of “brushstrokes and bombs” that is a treasure for children.... Read More

A portly pink pig wonders why it is that children always call on sheep for help when they can’t get to sleep, rather than inquisitive, happy, sometimes stubborn pigs. Though a smug sheep tells him that pigs aren’t qualified for such... Read More

Mr. Felix has a lot of interests and hobbies, but his neighbors didn’t know bicycling was one. Still, with minimal prompting, he grabs a rusting, abandoned bike and joins the town’s race. His speed surprises everybody—as does his... Read More

Jordanita travels to warm Argentina for Pesach, where she is delighted by her extended family’s pets, including their dogs, a cat, a tortoise, and two birds. At the Seder, the traditional Haggadah lessons unfold against a glowing... Read More

The reserved daughter of a family of well-heeled, damaged alcoholics determines who she wants to be in Hays Blinckmann’s poignant bildungsroman "Tiny Little Earthquakes". One of Elliot’s earliest memories is of her mother Francie’s... Read More

Narrating Russia’s eighteenth-century push toward the Bering Strait from the perspective of Laurentz, a captain’s son, this illuminating picture book brings history to life via beautiful realist illustrations that focus on wide, wild... Read More

First couching printed books, and libraries, as the apotheosis of human curiosity and learning, this enlightening picture book focuses on the Nazi regime’s efforts to squelch such wide knowledge via the burning of books. Such horrors... Read More