Marcel with a Splash

by boot | Jun 19, 2025

When Marcel is born, the first thing the midwife notices is his webbed toes. Otherwise, he eats, he sleeps, he eats again, just like any baby. And then the doctors start to notice Marcel’s almond-shaped eyes, weak muscle tone and unusually shaped ears. They come to a...

Everybelly

by boot | Jun 19, 2025

Maddie and her mom spend a sunny day at the local public pool, where she meets and greets friends and neighbors. Maddie is waist-high on most of them, and she knows there’s an interesting person behind every belly she passes — bellies with scars, tattooed bellies,...

Two White Rabbits

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She...

Tokyo Digs a Garden

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025

Highways and skyscrapers have taken over the wilderness that once flourished around the house where Tokyo lives with his family and his cat. But one day, an old woman offers Tokyo three seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes…

Three Brothers

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025

This gentle adventure story about the effects of climate change ends on a hopeful note. Finn and his younger brothers, Leo and Ooley, love reading stories about animals living in forests, on mountains or in the arctic. “When I grow up,” says Finn, “I want to be an...