May 2026 Books Archives - Friends Journal

Going to Meeting for Worship

By Liliane Sharpless. Germantown Friends School, 2024. 23 pages. $20/hardcover. In 2022, the Early Childhood Quakerism Committee at Germantown Friends…

Reviewed by Eileen Redden

If God Were a Great Big Bear

By Paul Harbridge, illustrated by Marta Dorado. Beaming Books, 2025. 32 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. Books for young children seem deceptively…

Reviewed by Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven

Blue Sky Morning

By Jihyun Kim, translated by Polly Lawson. Floris Books, 2025. 36 pages. $18.99/hardcover. This gentle book celebrates a child’s walk…

Reviewed by Alison James

Old Blue Is My Home

By Lita Judge. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2025. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $17.09/eBook. Old Blue Is My Home is a…

Reviewed by Anne Nydam

A Ring for a King: A Tale of King Solomon

By Martha Seif Simpson, illustrated by D. Yael Bernhard. Wisdom Tales, 2025. 40 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. On the surface, A…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery

By Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Ji-Hyuk Kim. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2025. 40 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. This book is based…

Reviewed by Vickie LeCroy

The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing after World War II

By Debbie Levy, illustrated by Boris Kulikov. Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2025. 48 pages. $20.99/hardcover; $14.69/eBook. The Friendship Train begins with…

Reviewed by Karen Clark

The World Entire: A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue

By Elizabeth Brown, illustrated by Melissa Castrillón. Chronicle Books, 2025. 64 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. As a Holocaust educator for ten…

Reviewed by David Austin

Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening

Illustrated by Daniela Sosa. Candlewick Press, 2025. 32 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $18.99/eBook. When I was a little girl, I waited every…

Reviewed by Rebecca Robinson

Sparking Peace

By Teresa Kim Pecinovsky and Hannah Rose Martin, illustrated by Gabhor Utomo. Herald Press, 2025. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Sparking…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

The Library in the Woods

By Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Carolrhoda Books, 2025. 32 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 7–11.…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

By María Dolores Águila. Roaring Brook Press, 2025. 304 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $2.99/eBook. This novel in verse introduces readers to the…

Reviewed by Anna Birch

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Going to Meeting for Worship

May 1, 2026

If God Were a Great Big Bear

May 1, 2026

Blue Sky Morning

May 1, 2026