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Title: The Secret of Salix Babylonicus Author:  Timothy Matthew Slemmons Illustrator: Timothy Matthew Slemmons Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN:  9781500142216 Audience:  Youth and adults Summary: Salix Babylonicus, the weeping willow, may have a bad

Title: The Princess and the Goblin Author: George MacDonald Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Publication Date: January 23, 2013 (paperback version. First published in 1872.) ISBN: 978-1482054743 NOTE: This book is in the public domain and is available as a

Title: When Spring Comes Author:  Kevin Henkes Illustrator: Laura Dronzek Publisher: Greenwillow Books Publication Date: Feb. 9, 2016 ISBN:  9780062331397 Audience:  Ages 4-8 Summary: Henkes and Dronzek reveal the rewards of waiting as the season changes from drab and empty

Title: What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig Author:  Emma J. Virján Illustrator: Emma J. Virján Publisher: Harper ISBN:  9780062327246 Audience:  Toddler – preschool Summary:  An offstage narrator announces, “What this story needs is a pig.”  In quick succession a lone

Title: A is for Abraham:  A Jewish Family Alphabet Author: Richard Michelson Illustrator: Ron Mazellan Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press 2008 ISBN: 978-1585363223 Audience: ages 5 and up.  Grade K-4 Summary: This beautifully illustrated alphabet book offers insights and teachings

Name of Book:  And Then It’s Spring Author:  Julie Fogliano Illustrator:  Erin E. Stead Publisher:  Roaring Brook Press ISBN:  9781596436244 Audience:  4-7 years Summary:  A little boy and three animal friends plant seeds in the early spring.  The seeds take a long time to grow,

Title:   Anna Was Here Author:  Jane Kurtz Publisher:  Greenwillow Books, 2013 ISBN:  978-0060564933 Audience: Ages 8 – 12 Summary: Anna and her baby sitter/Sunday school teacher, Jericho, began the Safety Club after a series of forest fires swept across Colorado becau

Title: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Author: Judy Blume Publisher: Dell Yearling Book Publication Date: 1970 ISBN: 0-440-40419-3 Audience: Grades 3-7 Summary: Margaret Simon has moved from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey, anxious about a new home and a new school.

Title: The Carrot Seed Author:  Ruth Krauss Illustrator:  Crockett Johnson Publisher:  HarperCollins Publication Date:  Reprint, December 2004 (60th Anniversary Edition) ISBN:  9780064432108 Audience:  Ages 4 – 8 Summary: A young boy plants a carrot seed, marks the place,

Title:  Adam and Eve’s First Sunset: God’s New Day Author: Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Illustrator: Joani Keller Rothenberg Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003 ISBN: 1-58023-177-2 Audience: Ages 4 and up Summary of Book: This book is a beautiful story of what Adam and Eve’s