Wasatch County Library

"Wordy Birdy loves to talk, but will she ever learn to listen?"--

Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.

Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children...

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...

Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

In 1992, a young boy whose father is away at war discovers, from their flower stall, the power of beauty and kindness in the wake of the bombing of Sarajevo.

Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds...

I'm a Feel-o-saur is a fun rhyming romp through all the different feelings that kids (and all of us!) experience, from sad, to 'hangry', to happy. Specifically geared towards children aged 2 to 4, and introducing children dressed as dinosaurs with names like Grumpy-saurus, Happy-saurus, and Bored-o-saurus, this picture book is a great way to start conversations about feelings with the youngest readers. The final spread gives a quick overview of the...

A reverence for natural ecological cycles, ancestral heritage, and the importance of environmental preservation are the focus of this bilingual biography of Don Margarito Esteban Álvarez Velázquez, or Margarito. Told from the perspective of his daughter, Doña María Guadalupe, the story is set in Saq Ja', Guatemala, and is, in part, a retelling of the Mayan cosmovision of paying tribute to one's ancestral past by loving the earth. Margarito, who...