Missing Momma

A tender picture book about a veteran’s PTSD and a family’s love for each other—on good days and hard days—from award-winning creators Winsome Bingham and Rahele Jomepour Bell Momma wears combat boots, a camouflage jacket, and a U.S. ARMY tag on her chest. She is a...

Owls In Our Yard

A baby owl is rescued and rehabilitated, and builds her own family, in this tender and wise picture book. In the spring of 2019, ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in little Alfie, a bedraggled Eastern Screech Owl chick who quickly became part of their...

This Is Not My Lunchbox

A lunch box filled with snails and spiders and eggs?! That is not MY lunchbox! Whose could it be? Join in on a surprising camping trip and discover the favorite meals of all your favorite forest creatures–from the wood frog (who loves a lunch of spiders and...

Every Here Has A There

Follow boxes of books through the supply chain, as they travel from truck to ship and then across the ocean to a bookstore (and to you)! Every here has a there, every up has a down, and every far has a near. Hop on board a big cargo ship as books printed in Asia head...

I Am Gravity

What reaches everywhere and never tires? Pulling on feathers and galaxies alike? Holding the mighty Milky Way together? Gravity, of course! Told in lyrical, riddling first-person narrative, Gravity boasts of its essential role in life as we know it–from the...

All At Once Upon A Time

An unexpected and wholly original fractured fairy tale by award-winning author Mara Rockliff, with a hilarious visual narrative from illustrator Gladys Jose—All at Once Upon a Time is a fantastic picture book read-aloud that will have listeners giggling ever after...

Mama’s Library Summers

Mama’s Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books by the author of Chef Edna, Melvina Noel, and illustrator Daria Peoples. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to...

Bugs A Skittery Jittery History

Bugs: A Skittery, Jittery History isan epic, oversize nonfiction picture book and companion to Sharks: A Mighty Bite-y History that is all about bugs and their prehistoric predecessors. Insects are some of the oldest creatures on Earth, evolving well before other land...