Always Looking Up
This empowering picture book biography tells the story of Nancy Grace Roman, the astronomer who overcame obstacles like weak eyesight and teachers who discouraged women from pursuing astronomy to lead...
View ArticleSasha and Puck and the Cure for Courage
Sasha’s father sells magic potions, but the potions don’t work. Can Sasha find a way to make the magic happen? The dashing knight Latouche wants to compete in a tournament, but he’s afraid to lose....
View ArticleThis Is a Sea Cow
When an imaginative second grader writes a school report about sea cows, the subject is not happy with her portrayal. Sea Cow—or Manatee, as she prefers to be called—comes to life on the pages of the...
View ArticlePenny for Your Thoughts
When Miss Bunsen receives a mysterious invitation to compete in a maze adventure for a big prize, Pearl, Millie, and Halinka are excited to put their problem-solving skills to the test under pressure....
View ArticleSasha and Puck and the Brew for Brainwash
When greedy Vadim Gentry orders a potion of persuasion from the Juicy Gizzard, Sasha is suspicious. But it’s not until he slips it into Papa’s drink and orders him to sell the shop that Sasha realizes...
View ArticleSpace Mice
When two hungry mice spot a giant yellow ball of cheese in the night sky, they get right to work building a rocketship so they can take a big bite out of that glowing full moon. After sailing through...
View ArticleThe Princess and the Petri Dish
Pippa isn’t your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn’t like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole...
View ArticleThe Very Oldest Pear Tree
In the 1630s in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a Puritan settler planted a pear tree—the first pear tree in America. More than a century later, the tree still bore fruit, impressing a famous poet and...
View ArticleToo Sticky!
Holly loves doing experiments and learning new things in science class! But when she finds out the next experiment is making slime, she’s worried. Slime is made with glue, and glue is sticky. Holly has...
View ArticleHeartbeat
Flick-dash flick-dash! Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. From tiny meadow mice to tall giraffes to the octopus with three hearts, each animal’s heart has its own beat, in tune with its body’s needs. Strong...
View ArticleHow to Grow an Apple Pie
It’s easy to make an apple pie, but what does it take to make the apples? Sophie is about to find out! First, the apple trees need to be about six years old—just like Sophie. Next, they need to be...
View ArticleIt’s a Pumpkin!
When Field Mouse and Squirrel find something big, round, and orange in the middle of the road, it looks kind of familiar. Skunk is positive it’s a lamp, and Rabbit thinks it looks like a snack, but no...
View ArticleThe Tinaja Tonight
Dry. Dusty. Hot. Suddenly, the water comes; then so do the animals—javelina and jackrabbits, coyotes and mountain lions. They warily share the watering hole. Strong graphic art and rhythmic text packed...
View ArticleThis Is a Seahorse
When a child writes a report about a seahorse, the creature himself has a few things to say about the animals he’s compared to. First of all, he is nothing like a land horse. His tail is much more...
View ArticleGoldilocks and the Three Engineers
Goldilocks is an inventor with inventor’s block. To clear her mind, she takes a walk. Coincidentally, a very smart Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear also take a walk, and they find a cute little...
View ArticleHear the Wind Blow
The stages of the Beaufort wind scale, portrayed with precision and also with poetic free verse, style, and imagination. It will stretch readers’ imaginations as we see the wind pick up from a kiss of...
View ArticleListening to the Stars
A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that contributed to her discovery of pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest...
View ArticleChicken Frank, Dinosaur!
Chicken Frank wants to prove he’s related to a T.rex—because of evolution!—but none of the other farm animals believes him, until he gets his DNA test results. This comic-book style picture book...
View ArticleSpidernaut
Told in the first person as if written by Arabella herself, she describes how she was the first spider to spin a web in space in 1973, and even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Reading...
View ArticleThe Second Life of Trees
Trees can live a very long time, but what happens when they die? This unusual book describes, in lyrical prose accompanied by colorful and graphic illustrations, that trees have a whole long second...
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