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,...

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...

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...

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...