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It's that time again! Time for the silliest post I do all year. When knitting needles look wrong in a picture book, you know I'll be there to catalog it.
Annually Evanston Public Library determines 101 of some of the greatest books of the year. Here are the results for 2022.
"Horror is such a fun, thrilling genre to write and really feels like the sky’s the limit." We're talking with master of scares Katherine Arden about smiling men and haunted scarecrows.
Newbery/Caldecott 2023: Fall Prediction Edition
Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Newbery / Caldecott Predictions, Uncategorized
|What will win? What will lose? Stay tuned for a new installment in that popular prediction series: What's Gonna Win a Major Award?
Not your parents' Jackie Robinson biography. Meet the men behind the "myth-breaking" book CALL HIM JACK and hear why it's possible to write a heroic bio with nuance.
After all these many years Jules Danielson hangs up the towel and the blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast reaches the end of its days.
Here's a person you should probably meet. We discuss translating puns, how to avoid gendering characters, shifts in public perceptions of translation here in the States, and what happens when your same-sex family board books are simultaneously attacked by the governments of Hungary and Russia.
What does it take to rig up a home school bus and visit one Title 1-eligible school in every state so that you can give away 25,000 books in total? I talk with the folks behind The Busload of Books Tour.
After more than a decade of admiring his work I finally interview Jason Shiga. We talk feudal Japan, books with three spines, Legend of Zelda, and more.
A board book wins a Stonewall Award and nothing is ever the same again. Today I talk with publisher Brittany Murlas about her company Little Feminists and the incredible board books they create.