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Diverse Scholarship and the Islamic Golden Ages: A Q&A with M.O. Yuksel About The Prince of Stars
I felt like doing a bit of a dive into a 2025 picture book bio that didn't get nearly enough attention last season. If you don't immediately know the name "Ulugh Beg" consider this your educational platform for the day.
Review of the Day: The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice by Amy Alznauer, ill. Anna Bron
“Even if you haven’t studied art or math, even if you’ve never gone to college, you can make shapes yourself and change how the world looks.” A math-centric tale of discovery.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Biographies for Kids
This may look like an ample list, and it is, but all thirty of these individuals are just a small slice of the pie that was biography in 2024. Read them in good health.
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Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer – A Talk with Quartez Harris and Gordon C. James
Is Go Tell It our first picture book bio of James Baldwin? Not at this point (though it was when it was written). But trust me when I say that this is one of those books you'll be thinking about long after you put it down.
Review of the Day: Go Forth and Tell by Breanna J. McDaniel, ill. April Harrison
Add a great text and art from an illustrious artist and you’ve got on your hands a librarian biography that’s a cut above the rest. A book that surpasses its form. A tale worth telling.
Review of the Day: Outspoken Paul Robeson by Carole Boston Weatherford, ill. Eric Velasquez
If you’re going to do a biography of a complicated subject, and bring any kind of nuance to the telling, then you better saddle up and pour your heart and soul into the effort. You’re going to have to make a book like this one.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Unique Biographies for Kids
Today, I'm celebrating those biographies that focus on their subjects with a bit of creativity. The ones that could only tell their tales their own particular ways. Biographies for the masses! Biographies for the kids.
Water is Life: A Deep Dive Interview with Carole Lindstrom On Her Upcoming Dual Biography
Today Carole Lindstrom, Caldecott Award-winning author, discusses her dual biography of Grandma Josephine and Autumn Peltier.
Where’s THEIR Book? Ten Historical Figures I’d Like To See in Picture Book Biographies
If you could hold in your hands a picture book biography of anyone at all, who would it be? Today I name ten folks deserving of their own books.
Twin Stars, One Light: A Fire of Stars Dual Interview with Kirsten Larson and Katherine Roy
With four starred reviews (and counting) to its name, today I talk about The Fire of Stars with its creators and learn just how difficult this sophisticated picture book bio was to create.
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