Two young kids meet for the first time and a playful friendship begins. From their backyard to the rolling hills of their neighborhood to the unlimited dreamscape of their imaginations, the two discover what it’s like to connect with a true friend in real life and make-believe. 

In Birds Sing Their Words, two young children, guided by an adult, take a springtime walk through a city neighborhood, noticing how birds communicate. The sounds of fee-bee and per-chick-a-ree are all around them–alone, in chorus, or call-and-response style. The children learn that our own diverse voices parallel the many songs that birds sing.

A grandmother introduces her grandchildren to famous Black figures and important snapshots in Black history, and the children begin to imagine themselves in these moments. 

With the help of diagrams and fact-filled sidebars, Wind explains what causes their airs to move, describes their favorite forms (katabatics, hurricanes, tornadoes), and shows how they have impacted our lives in both beneficial and destructive ways. Moving between science, history, and myth, this unique book is an engrossing look at an elemental force.  

A parent and child play make-believe as a variety of animals, plants, and forces of nature.  

Barrington Irving worked hard to become a pilot, and even harder to inspire other people to think big too. How big? A flight around the WORLD big. Climb aboard for the true story of how Barrington Irving went from tinkering kid to towering pilot and flew solo around the world breaking records as the youngest person and first Black man ever to do it. 

When a forest fire attacks their home, one brave hummingbird attempts to extinguish the flames, inspiring the other animals, paralyzed by fear and doubt, to do their part. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby. 

This STEAM picture book biography highlights how scientist and writer Rachel Carson became the author of the groundbreaking book Silent Spring and the mother of the modern environmental movement. 

This book really pops, full as it is of fascinating bubbles — useful and entertaining, noisy and silencing, lifesaving and dangerous, microscopic and bigger than our solar system.

A picture book about how owls like Flaco experience the city and how young readers can protect and admire them in the urban environment.  

Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help, and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! 

Seasons come and go, and the wind wafts its way through them all. This delights a family of children, and when they ask the wind, “How will you blow today?” they get a kick out of not knowing what answer they’ll get. Will the wind send gentle breezes that tickle and delight, cooling them off on hot days?