Bookends

Feeling sad? Sad? Sad. Sad! Everyone feels sad sometimes. Flamingo wants to know, “will I always feel this way?”, “why do sad things happen?”....

A boy, a homemade paper boat, and a rainy day. An adventure awaits. In this beautifully illustrated wordless picture book, we take an adventure with...

Ezra Jack Keats understood what it was like to be excluded. He grew up a child of Polish immigrants in New York City, surrounded by poverty and...

Little Tiger thinks his life is falling apart. His friends have left him, his parents don’t love him, and his life feels unfair. He feels that...

When Nikki losses his brand-new white mitten in the snow, the animals decide to climb in and get cozy. This Ukrainian winter folktale retold by Jan...

Do you need more light to shine in the darkness? Enter the magical world of a winter’s night. This winter tale about darkness and light, follows a...

Kindness is something that ripples out in all directions. But what happens if you haven’t been kind to someone? When a new girl comes to school,...

Sometimes you can’t wait for a friend to show up. You have to go out and find them. On the island where imaginary friends are created, a white...

Jack has to apologize to Zoe. Finding the right words is hard. And Jack isn’t ready because he’s still angry. With the gentle encouragement of his...

The strength of your ancestors, lives inside you. A young boy’s parents help him recognize how growing his hair connects him to his family and...

Everyone is sleeping. It’s a hot summer night. When a little girl wakes up, she wonders what woke her. She and her cat explore the beauty of the...

“Relax, be very still, and listen—listen carefully to this tale about…” So begins each of the 20 read aloud stories based on traditional Jakata...