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A collection of virtual summer camps with a literary focus for your perusal this year.
Today I pay homage to a couple of the books that I should have made more of an effort to praise properly when they first were published.
Enter to win a bound copy of my upcoming middle grade debut LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS, illustrated by David Small!
My family is currently watching the Netflix adaptation of the famous series. But does it have more to say to kids who lived under Trump than we suspect?
Time for every knitter's favorite fact finding post in which we closely examine the knitting needles in a slew of 2020 picture book titles. Who got it right and and who got it wrong this year?
Safe in the knowledge that with the Election today no one is going to want to look at much of anything else, I'm putting together a post of cute Halloween costumes and pictures with kidlit connections. Enjoy.
Judy Blume's third book turns 50 this year so I propose something a little crazy. How about we release an edition of I propose an edition of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret set . . . in 1970?
"People think that collaboration is about harmony, but that's wrong." A book release party like none other, I attend the celebration for Flying Paintings by Amy Alznauer and The Zhou Brothers.
Today I'd like to highlight two art mysteries that have direct ties to children's books. One concerns a painting that vanished. The other, a painting that appeared in the oddest of places.
But If I Can’t Harangue in Person, How Will They Know I’m Right?: Book Committees in a Pandemic Age
|How are book committees coping in the face of entirely virtual book discussions? I speculate and speculate and speculate some more.