Island of ShadowsAdapted from the Italian original, this picture book imagines a mythical world in which animals nightmares take literal form, yet the scariest place of all is the dreamless Island of Shadows, the domain of extinct creatures. Ages 8 11 Fiction, 32 pages, 2023 ISBN 9781568463889

The story opens and closes with a trade-off between a toothy

and such defining features as their beds and large wheels

An instructional guide to speaking to dogs

Many of the acrylic paintings are featured in full spreads

including scientific concepts such as spin and friction

who wear imagination like a garment

Bobo's travels show him an enchanting world

atmospheric text and images knit together stories of survival

ISBN 9781608185641

A young girl whom Homer Henry Hudson rescued from rebels during an uprising gave him the bear as a thank-you for saving her life

As unlikely as this was

and architectural accomplishments such as the Colosseum