Join a butterfly on a magical tour of art history through the ages. When she is jostled from the Flemish painting in which she’s lived for over 300 years, she must find her way back. Another butterfly named Brimstone has suffered a... Read More

On the surface, Marjane Satrapi’s "The Sigh" is a simple fable, a momentary escape from reality into a world fueled by a child-like acceptance of both the mundane and fantastic. However, as with all the gifted cartoonist’s previous... Read More

The extraordinary pencil-and-oil-paint renderings of animals gigantic and tiny are worth the price of this important book about endangered species. The writer is a conservationist and the artist worked as a zookeeper; their... Read More

In this book, biologist Rob Laidlaw introduces children to animals’ basic needs, and the realities of animal treatment behind the scenes of the entertainment industry. While it may be appealing to visit circuses or reptile shows, the... Read More

Unintelligent Humans: Questions to Stimulate Your Soul, by Richard Singer, Jr., a psychotherapist, is a small book containing barely fifty-six pages, the first twenty-one of which collect short questions and drawings designed to... Read More

Poets as disparate as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Baudelaire, and Thomas Moore have put pen to paper to write about music. Music is accepted as a universal language to which we all respond, and poetry’s oral tradition speaks to... Read More

Let’s take a trip to a place where “the people are warm and friendly [and] the landscape ranges from snow-capped mountains and dense forests to the wide-open steppe and the sandy soils of the Gobi,” noted author/illustrators Ted... Read More

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved,” said John Lennon. “So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind.” Whether or not fairies exist only in one’s mind, this photographic... Read More