Life can be wonderful and inspiring, but it can also be frightening. How do we deal with things that frighten us? Like the fiery dragon in our fairy tale imaginings? Or the music concert where we have to stand on a stage in front of...

For young readers who love adventures, Beyond the Birch by Torina Kingsley is a book they cannot stop reading. It tells the story of Macy, a young girl who has a problem to solve. Strange things have started to happen in her house: she discovers...

Kids love mermaids! Mermaids, Mermaids in the Sea by Bethany Stahl is filled with all kinds of mermaids. Each spread starts with the refrain Mermaids, Mermaids in the Sea, and then adds a rhyming couplet. Other sea creatures make appearances throughout the book, such as...

Val is a young boy living with his mother; his father is gone. In the woods near his home, he meets a giant spruce tree. Spruce, the giant Sitka spruce, is steadfast; his roots are planted deep in the earth just as his values are...

Eala: The Mother Swan / La Madre Cisne is a magical bilingual story written by Ayn Cates Sullivan. Each page includes both the English and Spanish text. The folktale begins with Hugo, a young boy, heading down to the river to see if the story...

Do you think you know the story of Hansel and Gretel? Well, think again? Sibling Wars is the newest entry in the Fairytale Fraud series by Katie Pye. We meet Hansel and Gretel and the witch, but this version has a little twist. Instead of...

Great things can happen while we sleep. Why? Because that’s when the infinite power of the imagination takes over and worlds and even universes can be created. For the Slumbering Pearl, deep beneath the sea, this is what happens. While she sleeps, the Slumbering Pearl...

Jim West's Bellum de Numeros is the final book in the four-book Magicae Mathematica series that concludes the story of Alex, Archimedes, Nosaj, Maya, Daedalus, and many other friends. In this fantasy adventure story, Alex has traveled through time with a calculator, and she continues...

In Vanessa Canevaro's Zero the Superhero, Henry is always there to save the day. With his trusty sidekick, Superbird, they will always answer the call of those in need. His big sister, Marigold, and her best friend, Susan, always make fun of Henry and decide...

Helen by Simon Spence is a playful version of Greek mythology that will appeal to children. Zeus, the king of the gods, fell in love with Princess Nemesis. Through magic, he turned both of them into wild geese that laid an egg along the lake...