What’s not to love about Molly Morningstar as she dances and prances in the Caribbean Celebration Parade! She starts out her day in a beautiful costume with bright pink feathers, and is determined to win the costume contest, but as the day goes by, one by one she loses feathers from her headdress. When the …
This book is just too cute! Amy Koze’s book, Happy To Be Me, features twelve adorable animal characters, using amusing rhymes! Although the book teaches the lessons of diversity and to embrace one’s own uniqueness, children will also simply be entertained by the lovely rhymes and the delightful illustrations. Each animal is featured with one …
Kimi Hall is a primary school teacher who wanted a baby. She struggled with infertility, as many women have, and decided to take matters into her own hands and go the route of donor sperm insemination. When researching available children’s books on the subject to share with her future child, she couldn’t find what she …
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Sally the Cow decides her life as a cow is a bore, so she sets out to be something new. As she walks around the farm to look around, she tries imitating the sounds of the other animals – a duck, a sheep, and a horse among others. Each time her efforts meet with disastrous …
Alma Louise Wears a Cape is an adorable book written in sing-song rhyme. Beautifully illustrated in pastel watercolor style, the plot features a little girl, Alma Louise, who has a cape for every occasion. From a special cape for brushing teeth or playing checkers, her capes bring her great joy and happiness. One day Alma …
Written in beautiful prose, Princess Lily Earns her Beads is a story of a young princess, Lily, who wakes up one day feeling dizzy and sick. The king and queen try to find a cure and engage a “healer” who walks Princess Lily through her journey with cancer and chemotherapy via an enchanted forest, where …
What a great book for kids who are moving due to mom or dad’s military assignment. I loved how the author has woven in Permanent Change of Station (PCS) all throughout the book, making the PCS stand for many many things! Very cute idea and it works well. The story revolves around a little boy, …
The Loch Ness Monster isn’t a likely subject of a children’s book, but author/illustrator Nick Hamre has nailed it with both wonderful illustrations and a lovely story to read to your little ones! Jessie the Nessie Please Come Out! is the story of Jessie, the Loch Ness Monster, a shy underwater creature who lives in …
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