by Emma Davis | Aug 10, 2026
This picture book uses extended metaphor to explore what it is like for a young child to live with a parent who experiences mental illness. The mother is described as sometimes soaring like a kite and other times sinking like a boat, while the child learns—through the...
by Emma Davis | Jul 31, 2026
Fake Gnus follows Scoop Jackson, a curious reporter, as he investigates a mystery at the zoo: the gnu pen is empty. Along the way, Scoop encounters a series of wild claims about where the gnus might be—from eating ice cream in Central Park to climbing the Empire State...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 27, 2026
In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana’s father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father....
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 26, 2026
In this stunning sequel, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan. On a military base in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, American authorities have just imprisoned a...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 26, 2026
In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and...
