by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 19, 2026
A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 17, 2026
The young girl tells us that her mom’s new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf’s cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 17, 2026
Without his father and brother, the young boy’s life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can’t stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can’t stop crying. The boy...
by Emma Davis | Feb 17, 2026
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways — but the same in the one way that matters most of all. One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain,...
by Emma Davis | Feb 17, 2026
Planting Sunshine is a novel in verse that follows Theo, a thoughtful and emotionally sensitive child, who becomes deeply affected by images of war he sees on the news. As Theo repeatedly asks questions about violence, injustice and human suffering, he struggles when...
