“I got this diary for my birthday today and I’m so happy because now I can write and tell you things I can’t tell anyone else.” Wilhelmina (so named in honor of the Dutch Queen) Velthuizen is a young girl who while still a baby... Read More

Strange creatures unexplained lights a frightened family a hysterical community—all are ingredients in the story about events in Kelly Kentucky on August 21 and 22 1955. In "Alien Legacy" Geraldine Sutton Stith passes on the tale of a... Read More

The balance of responsive caring and reasonable demands is essential for children’s good mental health. Split the difference between the arch-authoritarian of The Great Santini and the hands-off permissiveness of Courtney Love. In the... Read More

"Martimus at Midnight" is set in the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. It is the fourth in a series created to promote a literacy program. Martimus is a nine-foot tall stuffed polar bear who kicks off a raucous dance party when the... Read More

Like Granduncle Nobujiro Saito my father did not talk about his colorful life. I say colorful because of what we learned about him from snips of his talks and from other people who knew him. It is strange that people who do have a... Read More

Snickerdoodle the nephew of Yankee Doodle and the cousin of Polly Wolly Doodle is tiny enough to drive a motorized peanut brave enough to fight a tiger and clever enough to conquer a dragon by tickling him with a feather making him weak... Read More

"My Sister Dilly" (Tyndale House 978-1-4143-2224-7) by Maureen Lang is a story about friendship dealing with the past and accepting the path that God has provided. Hannah leaves a lucrative career as an investment banker in Los Angeles... Read More

“Starbucks-drinking, Levi-wearing, word-loving, munchkin-rearing, artsy-fartsy, faith-filled friends” is how the authors describe themselves in the introduction to this book. In their guileless prose, they prove that it is possible... Read More