Social Issues
A Wonderful Bigness
By Diana Daly
Illustrated by Bruce Alcock
In this touching, often humorous remembrance, Diana Daly introduces young readers to her smart, funny, and caring great aunties and uncles—six remarkable people who lived with skeletal dysplasia at a time when the condition was not well understood. Daly intertwines older family ... Read more
The Possible Lives of W.H., Sailor
By Bushra Junaid
“What truths would you utter from your mouth
If you could tell us your story“ — The Possible Lives of W. H., Sailor
In this powerful and deeply moving poetic narrative, author/artist Bushra Junaid gives presence to W. H., a mysterious nineteenth-century sailor whose remains ... Read more
The Wall and the Wind
By Veselina Tomova
In the middle of the twentieth century, in the middle of Eastern Europe, a young girl dreams of adventures far and near. One day, a huge wall appears that separates East from West, and dreamer from dreams. No ladder is tall enough, no tunnel deep enough to get past that wall. ... Read more