The first signs of fall don’t arrive all at once. A cooler morning. Leaves beginning to turn. The sound of children heading back to school.

As the autumn season picks up pace, it can be hard to take it all in. Nature has its own rhythm outside our windows, while children are finding new rhythms of their own.

And so, two special stories are inviting families across the country to slow down and tune in—to the wonder of the natural world, the milestones of growing up, and the moments they can cherish together.

Our John Masiulionis rejoins Chelsea Lovell on News 4 Buffalo’s Daytime Buffalo for an all-new installment of PR From The Heart’s Empowering Reads for Kids to spotlight Patricia Newman’s Beatrice and the Nightingale (published by Margaret Quinlin Books/Peachtree Publishing Company) and Laura Hays Hoover’s It Won’t Be Long (published by Reycraft Books).

We encourage you, our friends and neighbors, to support Patricia and Laura by bringing home copies of Beatrice and the Nightingale and It Won’t Be Long and sharing these empowering reads with your little ones:

Beatrice and the Nightingale: https://bit.ly/4AvciWN
It Won’t Be Long: https://bit.ly/4yjtLzW

Beatrice and the Nightingale
Text copyright © 2026 by Patricia Newman • Illustrations copyright © 2026 by Isabelle Follath. Used with permission. Published by Margaret Quinlin Books/Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. All rights reserved.