Amy Novesky

A wind brings some English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister, introduces the two oldest to her friends, and takes them on many adventures.

Celebrates a child's love for a variety of trucks, from fire engines to cement mixers to ice cream trucks.

In 1939, artist Georgia O'Keeffe creates nearly twenty paintings as she tours the Hawaiian islands, but refuses to paint pictures of pineapples the way her sponsors tell her to.

Billie Holiday-also known as Lady Day-had fame, style, a stellar voice, big gardenias in her hair, and lots of dogs. She had a coat-pocket poodle, a beagle, Chihuahuas, a Great Dane, and more, but her favorite was a boxer named Mister. Mister was always there to bolster her courage through good times and bad, even before her legendary appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall. Newton's stylish illustrations keep the simply told story focused on the loving...

A retelling of a well-known Hindu story of how the god Ganesh was born and acquired the head of an elephant.

A book about perseverance and determination features illustrations depicting Dory and the other characters from the new Disney Pixar film.

Combines rhymes with pink-hued retro illustrations in a book that evinces the earnest love of all things ballet through depictions of little ballerinas dancing across each page.

After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into...