What Do You Do with an Idea by Kobi Yamada

A great book for children and adult alike and a great conceptual picture book that can be used to foster confidence in creative thinking and perseverence in withstanding criticism from others.

Compendium Kids, 2013

Miracle Man the Story of Jesus by John Hendrix

This book has phenomenal imagery and expressive words that clearly illustrate the meaning and manifestation powers that Jesus, the Miracle Man, demonstrated. A really striking book and one I have shared with the children and seniors alike in true and utter delight.

Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016

Just for Today Saint John XXIII

This book is a wonderful expression of prayer and daily reminders we all should follow. 

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2011

It's Not What You've Got! Lessons for Kids on Money and Abundance

Short lessons in nice easy to read aloud format

Hay House, 2007

Follow the Line Around the World by Laura Ljungkvist

I love this book. It is very visually stimulating and factually interesting and every page has so much to look at. This author is fantastic.

Penguin Group, 2008

Life and I a Story about Death by Elizabth Helland Larsen and Mrine Schneider

A simple but beautifully poetic children's book encompassing the very natural but also bittersweet process that Death is always not far from where Life resides. A marvelous find.

Little Gestalten, 2016

A Single Pebble A Story of the Silk Road by Bonnie Christensen

I liked this book because it told a sweet but simple tale of how a girl in the east sends a beloved Jade pebble on a journey West along the ancient Silk Road travel routes. I was enchanted.


Roaring Brook Press, 2013`

Star Child by Claire A. Nivola

This book was so sweet and thoughtfully written and I want to buy it for every new baby I meet-- it is truly a fine read and a wonderful viewpoint of our natural life plan.

Frances Foster Books, 2014

Plants Feed Me by Lizzy Rockwell

A very basic read but wonderfully illustrated introduction to children about plants, gardens, and the natural systems that grow our food.

Holiday House, 2014

A Line Can Be by Laura Ljungkvist

This is a great board book and very visually appealing and it hits all the right notes!

Pow!, 2015

On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole

I really thought this was a great book to find. I love how the story is simple to read and the pictures are straightforward but it is a beautiful story of how a lawn is transformed through the purposeful and mindful actions of a thoughtful little girl. This has been very inspiring book for me in the transformation of our front yard into an edible garden space.

Greenwillow Books, 2007

The World in a Second by Isabel Minhos Martins and Bernardo P. Carvalho

This book was so thoughtful and really intriguing with how so many places and people were represented as frozen-in-action in that one second that the world was stopped. I have not seen a similar children's book and the illustrations and drawing style is simply stunning. Definitely on my adult-wish-list of books I'm totally sucked into myself.

Enchanted Lion Books, 2015

Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran

This was a wonderful stumble-upon one day at our local library and I was excited to bring it home and reread it for myself, but also to allow my girls the ability to discover the magical inspiration within it's pages-- full of pictures and stories of cities drawn in chalk and marked with rocks and inhabited in a make-believe world of children during summer-time months. I was even more delighted when I saw my own driveway transform in a Roxaboxen-esque like manner.

Harper Collins, 1991

Lily's Victory Garden by Helen L. Wilbur

This book made me cry, it was that touching. It was a simple read but a wonderful short story about the impact a young girl's passion for nature can have on a isolated grieving mother and how a garden created during a nation's time of need can bridge people and communities in beautiful ways.

Sleeping Bears Press, 2010

Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family by April Pulley Sayre

Despite my feelings about these birds I found this book a wonderful and engaging read and wonderful to read a loud. Having a birder as a spouse, I have found myself very drawn to Bird books and this was truly a delightful and informative find. I also adore the style of artwork throughout the book by Huy Voun Lee

Henry Holt & Co, 2009

A Tree is Growing by Arthur Dorros

A beautiful non-fiction find that taught me much about trees in a simple but interesting way.

Scholastic, 1997

Ribbit by Jorey Hurley

Another simple classic look into nature via the style of Jorey Hurley

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017

If I Never Forever Endeavor by Holly Meade

This book is a charming read aloud story of a young bird pondering a life. Very good read. Very good find.

Candlewick Press, 2011

Hop by Jorey Hurley

This book was a refreshing and surprising find and Jorey Hurley has a number of similarly constructed books featuring a variety of other animals. I fell in love instantly with the style and even husband agrees, it is very catching.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016