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Controlling How it Blooms and Bleeds: An Intensive Kyle Lukoff & Priscilla Tey Talk about The Vicious Cycle
I'll tell it to you straight. This discussion of an upcoming title reads more like an intensive course of picture book making than your average Q&A. And you get to read it for free, you lucky ducks!
Reflections of Identity: An Opting Out Conversation with Creators Maia Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar
Queer content in children's books has been growing harder to find the last few years. All the more reason to celebrate this loving collaborative graphic novel about wanting nothing to do with the whole puberty thing.
Heists and Hijinks! Scams and Scoundrels! It’s a Diamond Fever Q&A with Steve Sheinkin and Jon Chad
Slicksters and tricksters abound in the latest from Sheinkin & Chad. That's why we're getting the inside scoop of this incredible heist story (though Steve refuses to let us know where that doggone diamond mine is).
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Dog Lovers Alert! It’s a Things I Learned From My Dog Q&A with Victor Santos and Dena Seiferling
It's, "more descriptive rather than prescriptive." That's how author Victor D.O. Santos describes today's book. Together we interview him alongside his illustrator and consider didacticism as well as what it takes to make a really good dog-centric picture book.
Green Roofs Galore: It’s an OUR CITIES DEPEND ON US Q&A with Victoria Tentler-Kryov
"what I think is most impressive is the fact that countries worldwide collaborate, exchange climate action ideas, and help one another find solutions." We talk green roofs and alleviating climate anxiety with Victoria Tentler-Kryov today.
Kilroy Was Here: Meghan McCarthy Discusses her Incredible Appalachian Title, The Long Hike
Take a deep dive into the origins of the incredible true story that will get your kids hyped to explore some trails of their own.
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Shouldn’t Work. Does. Brilliantly. We Discuss Charts for Babies with Michelle Rial
Michelle Rial (a.k.a. the new funny person you need to add to your roster) has not only created what might be the most amusing-for-toddlers-AND-parents book of the year, she's gone above and beyond the call of duty to answer some interview questions from me today... IN CHART FORM!
A Conversation in Hair with Sope Martins and Sean Qualls
With two jaw-droppingly good books on Black hair out in 2026, I wanted to get the creators in discussion with one another. How did they do their research? Where's the overlap? What's unique about how they chose to tackle the material?
A “glimpse of the unseen self through the medium of motion.” Helen Yoon Discusses Donutrina in the Nutcracker Sweet
"...maybe I'm the medium. Less creator, more conduit; a host body for the two-centuries-old Nutcracker virus." Turns out, Helen Yoon may be the greatest interview subject I've featured to date. Y'all, you GOTTA read this!
Holding Their Systems Together: Katy Duffield and Hannah Salyer Discuss Their Upcoming WE ARE THE KEYSTONES
"...a brilliant tapestry rich with images and lots of atmosphere." That's the kind of informational picture book we're discussing with its author and illustrator today. If you want guidelines on how to write such a book, then I think you need to read this.
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