Eight festivals are featured in this colorful, attractively designed book. Arranged chronologically by calendar year, the book starts with Purim, a Jewish Holiday in March, and ends with a Russian New Year’s story. Each holiday is... Read More

This book for elementary age children and up serves as a fascinating and fairly comprehensive introduction to dog sledding. Along with information on understanding and caring for the dogs—their breeds, food shelter and methods of... Read More

Oral history becomes an art form as freelance writer and photojournalist, Milton J. Nieuwsma, records the memories of three women who survived Kinderlager, the children’s camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenenbaum and... Read More

Wouldn’t it be nice if we weren’t so exhausted after preparing Christmas dinner that we could actually enjoy eating it? If every time the children opened a gift, they didn’t instantly grab the next one, and the next? If the guilt... Read More

French, an experienced storyteller and re-teller of traditional tales, creates an original fairy tale with all the characteristics of a classic one. A childless, sad king and queen who lived so long ago that time was not yet “caught... Read More

A young elk learns what it means to go hungry during a particularly harsh winter. While he waits for his father to find food, he meets up with other forest animals and is told about their methods of survival—from the porcupine that... Read More

Dataman has a great premise: Take a computer geek, a guy running his own computerized information-gathering company, and have him work with the cops. The cops, of course, have people who do this sort of thing, too, but they’re... Read More

From the Redwood Forest: Ancient Trees and the Bottom Line—A Headwaters Journey is the most intimate, well researched book on deforestation in the Northern California region that has been written to-date. Dunning brings her personal,... Read More