★★★★ Looking for a science experiment your kids can peruse and do on their own? Maybe you need some easy to plan activities for a class? Loralee Leavitt's (Amazon affiliate link) Candy Experiments is a book to consider. Split into different categories, you can help children explore density, mixing colors, identifying ingredients, and more. The... Continue Reading →

★★★★ The woods near Willow's house also feel so calm and quiet, unlike the turbulent emotions warring inside of her. When she runs off into the woods one day, she meets a lost tree spirit, Pilu, who needs help finding her way home. The long journey will have each one facing a storm of emotions,... Continue Reading →

★★★★ Annie McCade moved back to her home town to help her brother after her sister-in-law died, leaving him a single father to his two young children. She has been trying to help them hold it together for the past year while watching him struggle with the loss. When his drinking lands him in jail... Continue Reading →

★★★★ John Farndon's (Amazon affiliate link) Stuff You Should Know About Planet Earth is a visual feast for budding scientists. With cool full color illustrations and easy to understand writing, this is a great introduction to Earth science for elementary ages. Pick up a copy for the classroom or at home. Disclaimer: A copy was... Continue Reading →

★★★★ Out of all of the Rebel Girl books, (Amazon affiliate link) Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic may be the best. Normally in a book with 100 women, you might be lucky to have a few non-white women included. At best, you won't hit over 25%, despite... Continue Reading →

★★★★ We have enjoyed all of the Rebel Girls books, and (Amazon affiliate link) Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is no exception. However, I will say that is probably our least favorite in the series. The stories in the Rebel Girls books are limited to a page,... Continue Reading →

★★★★ It's Molly's turn for show-and-tell, and she is terrified of speaking in front of the class. In fact, she even makes up excuses as to why she can't do so. However, as she goes about her days, she hears from others about things they can't do, and she encourages them to try. Eventually she... Continue Reading →

★★★★ The simple illustrations aid the prose in Una O'Sullivan's (Amazon affiliate link) Millie the Monster. Millie, the smallest in her family, can't do so many of the things that her older monster family members can. She feels small and incapable and really wants to grow up. However, when she finds that there is something... Continue Reading →

★★★★★ Chris Barton's (Amazon affiliate link) How to Make a Book (about My Dog) is probably one of our new favorite picture books. I can guarantee we will be giving this as a gift. Barton walks us through the process of how to make a book, from the brainstorming process all the way to the... Continue Reading →

★★★★★ Usha loves playing with trucks, and she looks up to her big sister. When her sister, Aarti, tries to show her the big dipper in the night sky, she can't understand why Aarti doesn't seem to understand it is really a big digger. The sisters just can't seem to agree or see the other's... Continue Reading →