Life affirming and lyrical, this beautiful picture book celebrates the awesome power of nature and the circle of life. Over the course of a year, a young child and their dog watch kingfishers by the river with Grandpa. As spring turns to summer and autumn to winter, the kingfishers raise a family, while Grandpa teaches his grandchild about the power of nature and the circle of life.

When Brazilian American twins Lia and Luís receive a jigsaw puzzle from their grandmother, they must quickly solve it to figure out its secret message.

When a mother and daughter find a polar bear cub alone on the sea ice, the daughter cannot bear to leave it behind. Finding no mother bear in sight, the two adopt the cub and raise it as the girl’s brother.

A child in Brazil experiences the beauty and wonder of the natural world, and comes to understand his role within it.

American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus’s and other colonizers’ arrivals. So, what’s the true history?

A big sister anticipates the birth of a new sibling in this warm and funny stage by stage picture book tour of all the sizes of a growing baby, from teeny tiny poppy seed to giant watermelon.It’s hard to wait for an exciting new baby to join the family, especially when it’s still growing inside Mom’s tummy. But when her dad tells her the size of the baby at each stage, one little girl imagines all the fun she can have with her baby brother as a teeny tiny poppy seed, then a grape, then a lemon.But she’s not quite sure how she feels about having an avocado for a brother. Or an onion. Or a watermelon!

Seventeen year old Zhong Ning’er, a wily young thief, must use her wits to survive in an alternate, futuristic Beijing.

A quiet, thoughtful look at stillbirth and grief told through the eyes of a child.

Skeletina’s day starts just like any other in the mixed up, upside down, inbetween world she calls home. That is, until she hears a strange sound coming from right inside her house. There’s a little girl crying behind the walls, and her teeth keep falling out! But Skeletina knows who can sniff out the truth. Join fun loving and fearless Skeletina on another in between adventure as she helps a frightened little girl conquer her fears and turn a scary dream into something much more fun!

Olive’s friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little green envelope, lost in the bottom of the desk drawer, knows how Olive feels. It, too, wants so much to travel, and imagines zipping up and down conveyer belts and bouncing along in a mail bag, on its way to deliver an important letter. An old postcard reassures that for every occasion, there is an envelope but it seems like it will never be the little green envelope’s turn. When Olive’s grandpa suggests writing her friend a letter, the little green envelope hopes and hopes that it will be chosen to carry the letter to its destination but will it be a perfect fit?