Mirado is from Afghanistan; he was sent to safety while his father stayed to fight a war. Now, he’s a favorite performer for a traveling circus, playing his father’s flute. But the flute is starting to crack. Around Mirado, night... Read More

This latest title from Caldecott Honor winner Carson Ellis is surrealistic and dreamy, tripping through a room of partial objects while the half moon shines in through the window just before bedtime. A halved vase of flowers drips... Read More

A kitten with a sweet tooth is eager to taste the delicacies she’s put aside—but others reached her donut, cheesecake, and chocolate before her! Pull back the flaps by each colorful concoction to reveal the culprits, from a snacking... Read More

In 1859, a hungry pig and two groups of cranky settlers sparked a military confrontation on San Juan Island. Watch human tempers flare as wide-eyed animals look on in this true tale of a maybe needless international tangle—a story with... Read More

Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts’s "Bad Tourist" collects entertaining stories from around the world. Forget the glamour of collecting passport stamps and checking... Read More

Characterized by passionate flourishes and a commitment to seeing immigrants treated fairly, "The Horseshoe Virus" is a knowledgeable political text that exposes the mechanizations of anti-immigrant operatives. The personal is... Read More

Emphasizing the ways that traditions bridge the future and the past, Sadie’s Shabbat Stories is an awe-encouraging introduction to a storied Jewish holiday. Every Shabbat ties into those that came before it in Melissa Stoller’s... Read More

In Susanna Clarke’s wondrous and moving novel "Piranesi", a gentle man finds the tranquility of his vast but bounded world challenged by visitors from the outside. Piranesi lives in a house whose halls seem endless. He’s been close... Read More