Years after gaining unexpected custody of her sister's three small children, a woman experiences emotional division when the grown children choose very different paths in life, in a tale set in Manhattan, Paris, and Tehran.

Children will enjoy searching out the "big" words hidden in plain sight in the illustrations in this easy reader that conveys a mother's love for her child.

When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami separates a young African hippopotamus from his mother, he finds a new snuggle partner in Mzee the giant tortoise, in a story based on true events.

A heartfelt ode to the physical and emotional roles of father and child. With minimal text and maximum emotion, Side by Side encapsulates Raschka's own passion and nostalgia for being a father to his [now-grown] son.

While mourning the death of her father, Lois receives a book called "The Manual," a gift left by her father that is filled with advice for her, along with instructions to read a chapter on each future birthday.

Presents a humorous introductory guide to the world for new babies, from cats and friendship to injustice and family.

After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam follow their dream of raising three children on a New Hampshire farm. Theirs is a seemingly idyllic life of summer softball games and Labor Day cookouts, snow days and skating on the pond. But when a tragic accident permanently injures the family's youngest child, Eleanor blames Cam. Her inability to forgive him leads to a devastating betrayal: an affair with the family babysitter...