Welcome to the  How to Speak Animal  Blog Tour! To celebrate the release of National Geographic Kids'  How to Speak Animal  on Augus...

  Summer is here and before we go our separate ways for a while, I thought it would be a good time to introduce my young readers to the idea...

  Before We Sleep, by Giorgio Volpe, illustrated by Paolo Proietti,  translated from the Italian by Angus Yuen-Killick Red Comet Press, 2021...

  Robin Robin by Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, illustrated by Briony May Smith Red Comet Press, 2021, 32 pages      When a robin egg falls out...

  I follow a bunch of animal rescue and rehabilitation sites, the goal of which is to eventually return the animals back into the wild, so I...

This week we celebrate Earth Day for the 51st time. This year's theme, Restore the Earth, feels so timely as we begin to emerge from a w...

  Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el, illustrated by Kelly Pousette Simon and Schuster/Atheneum BFYR, 2020, 272 pages We hav...

Here are five of our favorite stories featuring anthropomorphized animals and other creatures that we have read this year.  Don't Worry,...

When Snapdragon Bloom goes looking for her missing dog, she befriends the town witch and finds more than magic within herself.  There...

In her debut picture book, author Shari Swanson re-imagines a little known event from Abraham Lincoln's life when he was only 7-years...

One summer day, a polar bear named Duane wanders along the shoreline of the Cold, Cold ocean looking for a good place to nap until he rea...