Best Books of 2023
Review of the Day: Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo, ill. Eliza Kinkz
Clocks and cats, water and magic, and at its heart a father-son storyline. Nab this for your next storytime, whenever you get the chance.
Heists, Celebrity, and Mystery: An Interview with Nicholas Day About The Mona Lisa Vanishes
What we have here is a work of narrative nonfiction that will completely suck in child readers. I talk with the man behind one of the best books for kids in 2023, bar none.
Review of the Day: There Was a Party for Langston, King of Letters by Jason Reynolds, ill. Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey
With a single photograph you get a truly great picture book pairing and the start of a beautiful collaboration. To life! To joy! To books!
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Review of the Day: The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett
Sarah Everett wrestles with an outsized and ambitious bit of plotting, all the while keeping her cards close to her chest. Here’s some advice: Hand this to kids that like their books with a bit of a twist. And do NOT skip to the ending and read that first.
Review of the Day: Like Lava In My Veins by Derrick Barnes, ill. Shawn Martinbrough with Adriano Lucas
A perfect melding of superhero tropes and topical contemporary issues. It’s a tricky balance, but by gum Derrick Barnes pulls it off in the end.
Review of the Day: Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa
A marvelous example of bringing the old and the new together to create something that contains the best of both worlds. A beautiful potential future for folktales worldwide.
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Review of the Day: Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
This is for the kid who likes their humor to be complicated, their writing to be scintillating, and to never, ever, know what an author is going to do next.
Review of the Day: To the Other Side by Erika Meza
With care and invention, Erika Meza tells a migrant story that is both literal and figurative, realistic and metaphorical, and does so with honesty and more than a bit of cleverness.
Review of the Day: Glitter Everywhere! by Chris Barton, ill. Chaaya Prabhat
Children will come to this book for the sparkles. Grown-ups? Come to this book to find out how to make the best nonfiction for kids possible. Let this book be your guide.
The Bees of Notre Dame: A Dual Interview with Meghan P. Browne and E.B. Goodale
omorrow (April 15th) marks the anniversary of the first that ripped through Notre Dame four years ago. Today, we're looking at a picture book that highlights one of its success stories.
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