The Bird King: An Artist’s Notebook

    Feast For Your Eyes By Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine, $19.99, 128 pages, The Bird King: An Artist’s Notebook is a feast for your eyes. This book is filled with wondrous doodles of thousands of animals. It is filled with fresh ideas for current and future...

The Secret Chicken Society

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Buy This Book! By Judy Cox, Illustrated by Amanda Haley Holiday House, $5.99, 88 pages Daniel loves animals. When Fuzzy (the third grade class pet tarantula) escapes from her tank, Daniel is the first student to volunteer for the...

Wonder Light: Unicorns of the Mist

    A Magical, Mystical Adventure By R.R. Russell Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $15.99, 213 pages Twig is used to feeling worthless and invisible. When she is sent to Washington’s mysterious Lonehorn Island, a pony ranch for “troubled” girls, Twig soon discovers...

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron

    What Does It Take to Wear the Pointy Hat? BY Jonathan Strahan Random House Books for Young Readers.  $16.99, 432 Pages Good witches, bad witches, powerful witches, and witches in training; wild women of the enchanted woods and wand wielding girls from...