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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.
Fresh off of its National Book Award nomination, we're talking today with the authors behind a book about the 1963 March on Washington on the cusp of its 60th anniversary.
"...we are better working together, but this in itself is a skill that needs to be practiced over and over again." We're talking Iñupiaq origin myths with author/illustrator Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson today!
“You have a family, friends, a home. You go to school, and like all children, you like to play. One day, a threat appears and changes everything.”
Art and Science Combine As One: It’s an Iguanodon’s Horn Cover Reveal + Interview with Sean Rubin!
|Dinosaur paleontology: a science mediated by illustrators. Today we're talking with multi-talented Sean Rubin about dinos and an upcoming book that explains how we get them a little more right with every generation.
This is the kind of book that’s going to appeal to kids young and old. A contemporary classic with ingrained appeal and the occasional jolt of weirdness to keep things interesting.
A squirrel heroine. An epic adventure. Delicious hints of familiar fairy tales (Little Red Riding Hood, naturally), and tasty treats. For the anxious child, Evergreen may well be the hero they’ve always needed.
Folks, I see the challenge before me and I raise you one Chris Harris and one Andrea Tsurumi. A literary power duo the like of which the world of literature for kids has never seen.
A book that had me laughing and biting my nails in turn. Hard to think of any other title to compare to this.