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Today we feature an interview with the authors and artist behind this true story of a man who set out to save as many cats displaced by the Syrian Civil War as he could.
Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen have a book coming out together? Whatever does it look like? Whatever could it be? You're just gonna have to sit down and read this interview before you see the cover I consider to be the best of 2020.
With the patience of a Frog & Toad and the tone of a gentle French import, Fox & Rabbit just begs for a reread. So I did it one better. I interviewed the author. Today, Beth Ferry stops on by to talk foxes, rabbits, and why you don't need a mouth to show someone how you feel.
A librarian that's personally witnessed the SARS outbreak, Arab Spring, the onset of H1N1, swine flu, the ouster of President Morsi, Ebola, and now COVID-19 offers advice and perspective on school shutdowns.
Essentially this could be considered a college course on both the role fables have played in history over the centuries, as well as a deep dive into what it takes to make a book as exquisitely beautiful as this one.
"Humans read books to visit other worlds different from their own, and to connect with characters who are either different from themselves or reflect their personalities." Why do people like Richard Scarry? Ethan Long has a theory and a book series! I talk to the man about what books of this sort mean on a larger scale.
Folks, it is my extreme pleasure and delight to welcome Mr. Gene Luen Yang to the blog today. He's just finished up a book that's part memoir, part sports history, and all exciting. We discuss his anxiety about finding new projects, how this book came together, and what's slated for the future.
"You have the most to learn from the perspectives that are hardest to find in the world." For today's cover reveal, American Hmong author Kao Kalia Yang discusses the story behind her remarkable and beautiful upcoming picture book The Most Beautiful Thing, and how intersectionality informs her writing.
Representation and children's books. I talk fables and fairytales with Natalie Portman.
Each year, the winners of the Sydney Taylor are "sent", as it were, on blog tours. And today, I am pleased beyond measure to be speaking with Andrew Maraniss, winner of the Sydney Taylor Honor for Middle Grade, for his book Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany.