The lessons waiting for young readers in "Roar Like a Girl" are powerful. Coleen Murtagh Paratore’s "Roar Like a Girl" is a sweet story about a young girl struggling with change. Willa loves her life in the Cape Cod community of... Read More

It’s encouraging to see a children’s book focused so specifically on the value of kindness, and one that gives so many definitions of what that term can mean. In the picture book What Does it Mean to Be Kind?, author Rana DiOrio has... Read More

This book makes parents think about clever questions, some very serious, that might come out of a child’s mouth. Though it takes the form of a picture book for children, Judith Lazar’s Grown-Ups, the World and Me! presents a... Read More

A one-company town falters, and amid the human drama, nature begins to reclaim what had been lost. Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s illuminating historical novel, A Bird on Water Street, recounts the legacy of copper mining in Coppertown, a... Read More