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,...

The One and Only Question

by boot | Mar 20, 2025

It’s Zeke’s first day at his new school and it seems like it is going to be the worst day ever. His favorite shirt has a mustard stain on it, the bus driver is unfriendly, and his teacher covers material Zeke has heard a million times. Worst of all, Zeke is braced all...

Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-free World

by Amanda | Mar 20, 2025

Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems! Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of system: it’s less like...

What Milly Did

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025

Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating...

No Vacancy

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025

Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream, but at least it’s an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the...