Artie the lion and Julie the rabbit’s dutiful parents teach their offspring how to be good members of their species. Artie is expected to catch a rabbit, while Julie is expected to cleverly evade a lion’s jaws. However, the book’s... Read More

Safiyyah Ar-Raheem Hines expresses the turbulent emotions created when one’s daydreams and fantasies about life and relationships hit the hard wall of reality. Hines admits that the pain of having made life choices without having first... Read More

Those who have associated the term “yoga” with words like “difficult” “time-consuming” “boring” or “painful” will find Gentle Yoga for 50 Plus* a lighthearted encouraging and easy-to-follow introduction to a practice... Read More

The mostly brief prose poems that make up Jennifer Moxley’s fourth book of poetry locate themselves immediately in what must now, oddly, be described as the experimental tradition. The epigraph (untranslated) is from Rimbaud’s... Read More

If children need a new superhero, they should skip Hollywood’s fictitious offerings and learn about China’s real Su Dongpo. “He was the best,” concludes the author. Demi builds her case by sharing the quality of the man, not just... Read More

Dog lovers all over the world feel the same way this Japanese trio of authors and illustrators do about Coco. She is more than a companion; she is a member of the family. Coco is a charming female wirehair fox terrier. Affectionately... Read More

“You may think vegetables lead a dull life. But here we find the garden vegetables having a wild party under a late night moon,” goes the introduction (in both Spanish and English) to “El Baile Vegetal” (“The Barnyard... Read More

I think about what Pa said. About how Americans like to find new places, try new things. Lisa and her family decide to move from Illinois to Oregon. The year is 1849 and they must go by wagon train. Lisa’s father sells the family home... Read More