A Family Connection in More Ways Than One: Jen Loren and Caldecott Winner Rebecca Lee Kunz Discuss Ruth Muskrat and the So-Called Indian Problem
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Pickpocketing Protagonist Alert! It’s the Cover Reveal and Q&A for THE VANISHING ORPHANS OF ALVANOR with Callie C. Miller
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Autumnal Revelry of the Spooky Sort: It’s a Haunted Playground Q&A with R.J. Palacio and Brett Helquist
Who knew strolls through playgrounds after the kids have finished their Halloween parades could prove so creatively fruitful? We discuss the latest spookytime picture book to hit your shelves this season.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: A Ghost Story by Bill Martin Jr., ill. Eric Carle
The lone "horror" book in Carle's catalog (or so says Travis Jonker). I mean... how could we not consider it after that statement? But is it a forgotten gem or a book justly swept under the rug of history?
Review of the Day: Borders by Gudol, ill. Haerang, translated by Sophie Bowman
When you find something this intelligent, beautiful and, yes, on occasion, funny, that’s a book worth holding on to tight. I review a fabulous Korean import.
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