From the acclaimed author of Grief Is an Elephant, an interactive picture book featuring magic bubbles, animal communication, and your attempt to save a grove of ancient trees.

You’re lonely as the new kid in school but discover you have a magical gift and can talk to animals when you blow bubbles! Suddenly, you have a band of new-found animal friends, including a plucky duck named Stuart, but learn his habitat is in danger. Can you save a grove of ancient trees and protect your new friend’s homes?

This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities tapping, spinning, and boogying away! Tap, twirl, twist, spin! With musical, rhyming text, author Valerie Bolling shines a spotlight on dances from across the globe, while energetic art from Maine Diaz shows off all the moves and the diverse people who do them. From the cha cha of Cuba to the stepping of Ireland, kids will want to leap, dip, and zip along with the dances on the page!

Girls (and boys!) can become stronger and more resilient simply by realizing how strong and resilient they already are, and running provides a pathway to that realization. Refusing to quit, overcoming weariness, skinned knees, and self-doubt to finish a cross-country run, the resolute narrator of I am Darn Tough realizes that she is stronger than she thought, inside and out. I am Darn Tough is a story to show how to keep going even when something is difficult. This beautifully illustrated narrative can inspire any child, anytime, who wants to run toward greater confidence in her/himself.