Reviews
Kirkus Reviews - Bear and Bird
Old Bear and baby Bird become close friends. View →
I Love You Just Enough
It’s hard to love just enough to let go…. View →
Ferry Tail
An energetic, joyful dog finds his true home and family on board a large ferryboat that conveys cars and people to an island community. View →
Philip Reid Saves the Statue of Freedom
On December 2, 1863, a bronze statue called Freedom was placed atop the dome of the recently completed Charleston, South Carolina, farm, where a 10-year-old slave named Philip View →
Frog and Friends: Frog Saves the Day
Gr 1-4–This latest installation in the series contains two stand-alone stories about Frog’s heroic deeds. In “Frog and the Green Dragon,” Raccoon comes to Frog because she can’t sleep. Something in the night makes a big, loud noise like thunder that scares her. Frog leads his friends to… View →
Hot Dog!
When the first official visit by a British royal to the United States since independence is scheduled in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt hosts an all-American picnic. View →
Digger and Daisy Go on a Picnic
In Digger and Daisy’s second outing, Digger learns that—all appearances to the contrary—sometimes it is best to have a nose full of dirt. View →
Booklist Review - S is for Sea Glass
Michelson takes up the challenge of writing beach-related poetry for every letter of the alphabet, with a child in a snowsuit visits a familiar beach in winter and fin View →
Midwest Book Review - Love from a Star
“Love From a Star” is a beautiful, delicately illustrated book of verse that tells a reassuring story to all children. Using the light of a special star, God’s love shines down on each child and teddy bear at night to remind him he is never alone and never without love. View →
Philip Reid Saves the Statue of Freedom
As a child, Reid learned to work with clay and wood from an older slave on a plantation in South Carolina. Sold to Clark Mills, a sculptor, Reid mastered the skills required to create bronze statues. When Mills was commissioned to cast the plaster mold of the Statue of Freedom in 1859,… View →