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Review of the Day: How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
Why, hello, funniest graphic novel of 2024 for kids!
Cover Reveal! Q&A! Introducing the Upcoming Betsy Bird / Andrea Tsurumi Collaboration: Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme!
I have a brand new picture book out in 2025 so let's talk about it with the artist and editor! We discuss "High Detail Chaos", sneaky weasels, and so much more!
Review of the Day: The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
Is this a future classic? The answer may lie in the goats.
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“We can only talk about the things we name”: Talking About The Dictionary Story with Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston
Picture, if you will, a book with a lovely story and fun illustrations that is also packed to the gills with small jokes. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Today I talk with The Dictionary Story's creators about what that entails.
Review of the Day: Go Forth and Tell by Breanna J. McDaniel, ill. April Harrison
Add a great text and art from an illustrious artist and you’ve got on your hands a librarian biography that’s a cut above the rest. A book that surpasses its form. A tale worth telling.
Telling the Truth About What It Means to Be Human (Or Lizard): A Q& A with Patrick Ness on Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
It may be the most peculiar early chapter book out for kids this fall season (and the best!). I talk with the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go about his latest, rather silly, book.
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Review of the Day: The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Consider today's book for any kid who is ready to doubt everything they ever knew about narrators.
Review of the Day: We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
The kids are going to come here for the kooky aliens, but the whole reason the book works is because at its core this is a picture book about a kind of kindness we should all strive for in our lives.
Review of the Day: Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock by Vikram Madan
Since poetry and comics make for a perfect match, this latest from Vikram Madan is the ideal way to lure kids into ingesting a little verse.
The 2025 Graphic Novel You’re Gonna Want to Know About: A Q&A and Cover Reveal for Ursula Murray Husted’s BOTTICELLI’S APPRENTICE
Meet what is already one of my favorite GNs of 2025! We talk about Husted's research process, tiny scale models, and some beautiful images of Florence and the art there.
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