** April Staff Picks **

Perfect for quarantine reading with your children! Where did all the water on our planet come from? How deep is the ocean? What exactly is a fish? Find out all of this and more in the newest Professor Astro Cat adventure!

From the award-winning creator of Shh! We Have a Plan comes a vibrantly colorful story about mustering the courage to try something new.Little Crab and Very Big Crab live in a tiny rock pool near the sea. Today they’re going for a dip in the big ocean. “This is going to be so great,” says Little Crab, splish-splashing and squelch-squelching along, all the way to the very edge. Then comes a first glance down at the waves. WHOOSH! Maybe it’s better if they don’t go in? With vivid colors, bold shapes, and his trademark visual humor, Chris Haughton shows that sometimes a gentle “don’t worry, I’m here” can keep tentative little crabs sidestepping ahead — and help them discover the brilliant worlds that await when they take the plunge.

Make the most of your pantry and fridge with this fun and easy-to-use cookbook that turns groups of three ingredients into three distinct courses.

Get inspired to make delicious food any day of the week with this playful and inventive cookbook featuring 100 recipes from the creator of Instagram's "Fridge Foraging" series.

The book of the movement that applies homegrown practices of self-sufficiency to modern life.

This is the ultimate cookbook for kids from America's #1 food magazine, with 150+ fun recipes for every meal of the day plus snacks and dessert--all designed with young cooks in mind, and triple-tested by the chefs in Food Network Kitchen.

A collection of eighty delicious recipes from around the world, which also includes information on bees, the different varieties of honey, and its health benefits.

The charming world of Miss Maggie's Kitchen brings a mixture of refined classic French style with a modern twist, for perfect, effortless entertaining.

The only cookbook you'll need during the year's warmest months

A marriage between two unlikely characters--wood-fired food and well-chosen wines--brought you by the real-life marriage of a pitmaster and a sommelier. This cookbook brings smoky goodness from the grill and pairs it with wines from the Pacific Northwest.

Discover the vineyards, valleys, islands, deserts--and kitchens--of BC's Wine Country in this collection of recipes, tour ideas, menus and more.

Features delicious recipes and breathtaking photography which will take you on a journey of upstate New York.

A soulful tour of Palestinian cooking today from the Ottolenghi restaurants' executive chef and partner--120 recipes shaped by his personal story as well as the history of Palestine.

This tongue-in-cheek bingo board game is a pop-cultural time capsule, which celebrates and relives the '90s in all its tacky glory.

Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, and the whole gang at Pawnee's favorite municipal department are here to put your life back in order.