MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2022
Special guest poster Martha Meyer joins us to talk about connecting kids and teachers to books about science, nature, and the environment itself.
Bringing Back the Mean People: Jewell Parker Rhodes Discusses a One-of-a-Kind Toni Morrison Reprint
|Toni Morrison wrote a fair share of picture books, none quite as shocking and original as The Book of Mean People. With a reprint in November, I speak to Jewell Parker Rhodes, who wrote the Afterward.
We go a little serious this week with a deep dive into Allen Say's Caldecott Award winner.
There is a place in this world for good, meaningful picture books, and there is a place in this world for funny stuff. And this stuff? Some of the funniest I’ve seen in a long time.
Today we examine Fall 2022 books coming out from Diamond Book Distributors, Floris Books, and Flowerpot Press.
A run-down on who wll be presenting at the Picture Book Summit this year, with benefits going to the San Juan Community Library of Puerto Rico.
We've done a lot of Steig before and yet somehow managed to miss this Caldecott Honor. All that comes to an end! We dive deep into a delightful book that could NOT be published today.
With exquisitely clever art, this isn’t the first book I’ve seen on the subject of tree communication, but what I can say is that it’s the best written with the most useful illustrations to date.