Parents

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Spring 2025

The Fearless Storyteller

When a young girl's father is scared of the unicorns in her book, she hides it to protect him. At the next bedtime, she selects a book about giraffes, which are much less scary. Right?… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2025

The Secrets of Cricket Karlsson

Winner of the prestigious Swedish August Prize 2020. A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her… Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Stars Will Be My Nightlight: A Sukkot Story

"Can we sleep in the sukkah?" the son asks his mom. She worries that it will be cold and dark, and that it might rain. “But the stars will be my nightlight,” the boy says, to which the mom smiles. Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Stone Giant

When her father leaves to save people from a giant who turns them to stone with his gaze, a child in a red dress is left alone. Many days and many nights go by. Every evening the girl says… Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • ATOS: 3.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter

From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong

An exploration of the importance of bees in our world is offered through the author's lyrical observations to his young sons, often with analogies between the insects and children, and always Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

The Unbreakable Thread

A bittersweet celebration of the everlasting bond between a mother and child through the changing phases of their lives. The thread between a mother and child starts to unwind when the child Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Upside Down Babies

Once when the world tipped upside down, The earth went blue and the sky went brown. All the baby animals tumbled out of bed And ended up with very funny mums instead... Read More →

  • ATOS: 2.9
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: When Dad's Hair Took Off
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When Dad's Hair Took Off

One day, Dad's hair decided it was tired of being brushed and combed. It wanted a life of its own, to see the world. It took off. Out of the bathroom, into the kitchen, and before you could… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2023

When I Am Happiest

From the Series My Happy Life

A standalone follow-up to the acclaimed and beloved chapter books My Happy Life and My Heart is Laughing. Dani is very happy—it's the last day of school, and summer is about to start. But… Read More →

  • Lexile: 630
  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2015

Why?: A Sciencey, Rhymey Guide to Rainbows

This is a book for all the children who love asking "Why?"—and all the parents who struggle to answer! Her daddy wiped his sweating head, she looked him in the eye. With growing passion in… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2020
Spring 2025

Why?: A Story for Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to Suicide

Oliver's daddy loved him—a whole bunch, forever and for always. One day Oliver's daddy died by suicide. Why? Oliver's mommy hugs him tight, and she tells him why. And she reassures Oliver… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2023

Wolves in Helicopters

Can Hop find a way to escape the wolves in her nightmares, even if they chase her in helicopters? Mommy thinks so . . . Every night, Hop has night terrors filled with big, scary, hungry-eyed… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

You're Strong With Me

From the Series Lantana Global Picture Books

A mother giraffe and her young calf explore the African savanna. The rain clouds are long gone and the dry season scorches the land. Everything is new for the baby giraffe. As she bounds… Read More →

  • Lexile: 560
  • ATOS: 3.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

You're the Cheese in My Blintz

From the Series Very First Board Books

In my blintz, you're the cheese. You're the sun in my sky. To my heart, you're the keys. You're the twinkle in my eye. This rhyming board book celebrates the importance of a young child as a Read More →

  • Lexile: 270
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2020

Zip It!

XYZ! When Joe and his dad rush out the door to run errands on a Saturday morning, Joe notices that his motormouth father forgot a crucial detail when he got dressed. But will Joe’s dad… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • ATOS: 2.2
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2012