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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Books for Kids with a Message
How do you write a picture book with a message that isn't dull and preachy or didactic and poorly conceived? Let these books show the way.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Books With a Message
Today, we look at books that desire to send some kind of a message to kids, and who do so we grace, care, and skill.
Guest Post: Sara Greenwood’s Brother Is Away
Today author Sara Greenwood joins us to give a glimpse into why she wrote the picture book My Brother Is Away about an incarcerated loved one.
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Review of the Day: You Ruined It by Anastasia Higginbotham
A book about sexual abuse by trusted family members. Or, put another way, a messy, complicated, unique, necessary creation for those who will need it most.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Books With a Message
I think we all feel a little browbeaten by the books that prefer to thwack young readers bluntly over the head with their messages. These books, picture books and board books one and all, are more adept.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Books With a Message
I like to celebrate those books, with some kind of "message" to impart, that do so with minimal didacticism. These books do a great job of teaching without forcing. I salute their worthy efforts and the folks who brought them to life.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Books With a Message
here are, as it happens, a couple really good books with strong messages out each and every year. The trick is finding the best books with the right message. Consider the following books then.
Review of the Day: Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell, ill. Ana Ramírez González
Today I look at an infinitely gentle take on the feelings we lug around inside of ourselves and why we don’t have to always lug them on our own. Maybe Tomorrow? is, at its heart, about how to be a good friend. A seemingly simple lesson for a deeply complex world.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Books with a Message
The earliest American picture books had only one goal: To provide some form of moral instruction. These days books with clear messages are exceedingly common. The ones that do it well? Much rarer. Here are the 2018 titles that knew what they were doing this year.
Review of the Day: The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
The Rabbit Listened By Cori Doerrfeld Dial (an imprint of Penguin Random House) $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-7352-2935-8 Ages 4 and up On shelves now Lest we forget, the only reason that children’s books were invented in the first place was to teach small human lessons. That is, in fact, the very backbone of the book business […]
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