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On this podcast episode we speculate about Pincus's love of the booty, what the Broom Handle owes The Simpsons, and Kate even works in a Bob's Burgers reference (so, really, there's something for everyone here).
You want a hilarious middle grade full of action, social commentary, a Black girl heroine with wits, smarts, and humor, and an alternate world scarily close to our own? This way please.
Queer content in children's books has been growing harder to find the last few years. All the more reason to celebrate this loving collaborative graphic novel about wanting nothing to do with the whole puberty thing.
Slicksters and tricksters abound in the latest from Sheinkin & Chad. That's why we're getting the inside scoop of this incredible heist story (though Steve refuses to let us know where that doggone diamond mine is).
"Writing is an act of discovery, full of epiphanies and surprises. My only intention was to try to capture the beauty and fragility of a place I love, combined with a storm I will never forget..." We discuss Lauren Wolk's latest with the author herself.
In honor of Kate's travels to England, we dive into our very first Babette Cole and see how well this book stands up to our high and mighty standards.
Such doozies. Transit Children's Editions is a small publisher with only three titles to show us today, but whatta three!!
I judged a competition in which teams of kids had to select picture books and create models of interactive exhibits from them. The results are extraordinary.
It's, "more descriptive rather than prescriptive." That's how author Victor D.O. Santos describes today's book. Together we interview him alongside his illustrator and consider didacticism as well as what it takes to make a really good dog-centric picture book.
On today's episode we discuss everything from David Bowie's depiction of Andy in the film Basquiat, to creepy ventriloquist dummies, to what you should do if roughly a dozen members of your extended family show up at your door (answer: put them to work).