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56 flash cards teach basic French words about nature, animals, clothing, colors, things in the home, vehicles, and things at market. Each word is boldly illustrated and used in a sentence in English on one side and French on the reverse.

Directions are included for ways to use the cards to introduce and reinforce French vocabulary as well as suggestions for using the cards as starting points for storytelling and play acting, and honing categorization skills. Illustrations by Monika Forsberg.

Age: 4+
Includes: 56 durable flash cards, Pronunciation Guide
Card Size: 4.5" x 6"
Box Dimensions: 6.5" x 5" x 1.25" 

From an Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator comes a magical story that proves fairies are real and they're all around us.

Who else could have braided the dog's hair? Who else could be playing that faint music in the air? And who else could've made those mysterious circles in the grass? So thinks a little girl as she sets out into the woods in her backyard searching for the elusive little creatures. Although readers can see them, as hard as she looks, the fairies are always just out of view for our heroine. In the end, it's clear (to the girl AND to readers) that there is magic all around, even when it's hidden in plain sight.

Lush, multi-textured illustrations bring the woods (and the fairies) to life in this playful read-aloud by Phoebe Wahl. Kids will delight in seeing the fairies hidden in each piece of art and revel in the tricks and games the fairies play on our unsuspecting heroine.

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Albert is desperate for a pet, so he's really excited when Dad finally brings one home. There's just one problem: it's a potato.

• Hardcover
• 32 pages

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Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're exceptional. They changed the world. Did you know that the father of African cinema was originally a bricklayer? Or that Vogue's editor-at-large read his first Vogue magazine in his local library? Learn all about the exceptional black men who broke barriers and fought injustice to realize their dreams and make the world a better place.

• Written by Vashti Harrison
• Hardcover , 96 pages

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This beautifully illustrated New York Times bestseller introduces readers of all ages to 40 women who changed the world.

• An important book for all ages, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of forty trailblazing black women in American history.
• Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
• Hardcover , 96 pages

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E. B. White Read-Aloud winner Mac Barnett celebrates individuality in a story told with tenderness and subtlety.

• It’s John’s big day at school today—a performance for Sharing Gifts time. His bag is carefully packed and prepared, his classmates are ready, and the curtain is waiting to open. John is nervous, looking out at all the other children staring back at him. But he takes a big breath and begins.
• Mac Barnett’s compassionate text and Kate Berube’s understated and expressive art tell the story of a kid who finds the courage to show others his talent for dancing.
• Hardcover , 32 pages

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56 flash cards teach basic Spanish words about nature, animals, clothing, colors, things in the home, vehicles, and things at market. Each word is boldly illustrated and used in a sentence in English on one side and Spanish on the reverse.

Directions are included for ways to use the cards to introduce and reinforce Spanish vocabulary as well as suggestions for using the cards as starting points for storytelling and play acting, and honing categorization skills. Illustrations by Monika Forsberg.

Age: 4+
Includes: 56 durable flash cards, Pronunciation Guide
Card Size: 4.5" x 6"
Box Dimensions: 6.5" x 5" x 1.25" 

A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, exploring the landmarks that shaped one of America’s most beloved musical traditions.One morning Bo Willie finds the doghouse empty and the gate wide open! Farmer Fred says Yellow Dog hit Highway 61 and started running.

One morning Bo Willie finds the doghouse empty and the gate wide open! Farmer Fred says Yellow Dog hit Highway 61 and started running. Aunt Jessie picks up Bo Willie in her pink Cadillac, and together they look for his missing puppy love. Their search leads them from juke joints to tamale stands to streets ringing with the music of B.B. King and Muddy Waters. Where, where did that Yellow Dog go?

Acclaimed creators Alice Faye Duncan and Chris Raschka present a boogie-woogie journey along the Mississippi Blues Trail. With swinging free verse and stunning hand-stitched art, Yellow Dog Blues is a soulful fable about what happens when the blues grabs you and holds on tight.

Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak.

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George—the author’s grandparents—along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

This glorious new picture book from two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall is as lavish and moving a tribute to a storied, beloved place as Hello Lighthouse.

Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns stands a farmhouse.

Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish in the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artifacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous detail and joy. Join the award-winning, best-selling Sophie Blackall as she takes readers on an enchanting visit to a farmhouse across time, to a place that echoes with stories.

On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother’s advice: “Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just as bored you are now.” And before they know it, their imaginations lift them up and out of their boredom. 

Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael Lopez’s dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.

32 pages, hardcover. Best for ages 5-8.

Embark on a magical tour of the forest floor and discover one of the most fascinating living organisms on this planet – fungi!

• Hardcover
• 64 pages

It's cleaning day, but the family cat will do anything to avoid getting a bath. So instead of mopping the floor or feeding the fish, the family is soon busy rocking the rug, vacuuming the lawn, and sweeping the dishes.

Bouncy rhyme carries the story headlong into the growing hilarity, until finally Dad restores some kind of order—but will the cat avoid getting his whiskers wet?

• 48 pages, hardcover
• Best for ages 3-5

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Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between.

This sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others. With child-friendly language and vibrant art, It Feels Good to Be Yourself provides young readers and parents alike with the vocabulary to discuss this important topic with sensitivity.

Theresa Thorn is the cohost of the parenting humor podcast One Bad Mother and the coauthor of You’re
Doing a Great Job! 100 Ways You're Winning at Parenting. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and It Feels Good to Be Yourself is her first book for children.

Noah Grigni is a non-binary transgender illustrator, writer, and organizer whose bold and playful art has appeared in The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids by Kelly Storck and We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology.

Noah is from Decatur, Georgia, and now lives in Boston, Massachusetts. It Feels Good to Be Yourself is their first picture book.

An earthy and beautiful collection of four stories that celebrate the seasons, nature, and life, from award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl. 

This book is a beautiful ode to nature, friendship, wild things and the seasons that only Phoebe Wahl could create: an instant classic and a book that readers will pore over time and time again.

• 96 pages
• Hardcover
• Pair with Little Witch Hazel Paper Dolls :)

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Meet Michelle Obama, the iconic first lady, advocate, lawyer, and author.

Best for ages 4-7 years.

Hardcover, 32 pages

Learn to make art like the masters with art masterclass!

In each book, undertake 12 lessons including drawing, coloring, and sketching activities that are designed to show you how the artist worked.

Like Klimt, you'll use collage to make portraits, create patterns to illustrate your art, and learn how to show the expressions of people in your pictures with a pencil. Then you can use everything you’ve learnt to create your masterpiece on the pull-out poster at the back using the sticker sheet.  

By Traci Sorell

A book about Native American truths everyone should know.

Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here! Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing.