Reviews written by Bethany Wicker, Listings Manager & Staff Reviewer

HOW TO DECORATE A CHRISTMAS TREE is a decorating guide that an older sister creates for her younger brother. It includes the in's and out's to decorating a tree. As she pulls out the ornaments, she shares the memory that each one holds and what makes them so special. In...

WHAT'S INSIDE A CATERPILLAR COCOON takes you through the life cycle of a caterpillar while also teaching the differences between moths and butterflies. There's a lot of interesting facts for children to see how unique the two species are. A main attribute that people first notice is the way they...

Hope blossoms out of many different situations and scenarios. WHAT IS HOPE celebrates how hope can come when you least expect it and how it gives us the courage we need to face anything. It shows how you can find hope in anything if you're looking at it from the...

Tiny Reindeer is so small that he can never seem to do anything right. All he wants to do is help Santa during the holiday season, but the tasks are always too big. When Santa gives him the job of sorting the last pile of letters into naughty or nice,...

On a cold winter's eve, a little boy builds his very own snow boy to play with. But at the end of the day, it's time for the little boy to go in and he leaves Snow Boy all alone, left wondering where is his family? He sets off to...

After a really bad breakup, Eli shuts down and doesn't even want to leave her room. She doesn't talk to anyway either and no longer has friends. Not knowing what else to do, Eli's mother brings her to a teenage retreat called Raeth. They specialize in mental health issues and...

Nova Evans usually doesn't spend more than a couple months at the same school because her mom moves them all around the country for her job. Because of this, Nova gets the opportunity to be something new at each school. She's done it so often now that she's forgotten who...

THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC CREATURES is perfect for any dinosaur fan and with the holidays coming out, it would make an excellent and educational gift. There are so many flaps, interactive pulls, and facts that this book will keep a child entertained for a while. Some...

A little cockatiel snuggles with its parent as the baby is reassured about the love they share. Not only is the baby showered with love, but its also taught that no matter where it flies off to, the parent will always be with them in their heart. So they should...

STOMP AND CHOMP: MY FIRST BOOK OF DINOSAURS complies a lot of information in a way that's easy for children to understand with lyrical writing. It's broken up into four sections: Meet the Dinosaurs, Eat or Be Eaten, Dinosaur Families, and The End or Is It. There's an introduction so...

Melvina Whitmoore is afraid of everything. It's one reason she moves, hoping to finally find somewhere safe to live. But then she here's voices and finds herself more terrified than ever. The floorboards shake and the walls rattle. Melvina thinks this is it, until a group of monsters come in...

The moon does so much for nature that people don't even realize. It guides a dung beetle home with its meal in tow and helps guide turtles back to the sea. Seeing it as a beacon for animals makes the reader look at the moon in a different way. Along...

The house of the Brontes was one of full of giant imaginations. They may not have lived long lives but they were certainly full of life. Their mother died when they were young so they lived with their father and had each other to lean on. While their lives were...

I'M TRYING TO LOVE GERMS teaches that while germs have a bad stigma, not all of them are actually bad. Even though they're too small to see, they're everywhere. Scientists call germs microbes or pathogens and there are some people who study bacteria for a living. Some make you sick...

Zander the white goose wants to try something new this year for the winter season. Instead of migrating with his family, he wants to stay behind this time and see what winter is all about. But the colder it gets, the harder it is for him. He tries to ask...