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Flesh eating fashion. Solid gold toilets. It's all in Steven Weinberg's new nonfiction book on color. Best of all, find out why I'm someday going to name my new rock band "Extended Gamut Printing."
An old classic gets a new update. Today I not only interview the author and artist that adapted Watership Down into a graphic novel, but the daughters of Richard Adams as well!
We're joined today by the creative forces behind a publication that owes its existence to a 1920s children's publication founded by W.E.B. Du Bois. Learn more about The Brownies' Book in all its iterations.
Amusing, sweet, and strange. A wondrous mix of the familiar with the utterly original. Meet Olive for yourself.
Interview Triumvirate: A Three-Way Rescues Interview with Tommy and Charlie Greenwald and Shiho Pate
|It's been a good year for dog books. As proof, you should probably check out The Rescues. I interview its three creators about bringing this monumentally cute story to life.
“Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here.” Attend the tale of Bea Wolf, and a better comic for kids you're unlikely to find anywhere.
If you think the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and Brooklyn at that same time makes for an awkward tri-narrative, you are wrong. And if you also think that it would be highly difficult to weave three such perspectives together, there you are correct, but it can be done. The Lost Year proves as much.
Poetry and friendship. Family and legacy. The story behind the collaboration of Jerry Pinkney, Nikki Grimes, Brian Pinkney, and Charnelle Pinkney may be one of the finest you read all year.
Newbery/Caldecott 2024: Fall Prediction Edition
Best Books, Best Books of 2023, Newbery / Caldecott Predictions
|Committees, I do not envy you your job this year. We just have too many award-worthy books. Someone needs to speak to management about this.
Today we look at one of the latest National Book Award nominees, and the only picture book in the batch.