Lazlo Learns Recorder is a 2019 picture book written by Vicky Weber and illustrated by Masha Klot. It has a good structure for a story […]
The Paper Boat
The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story is another picture book by Thao Lam, this one from 2020. A few days ago I reviewed The Line […]
When Creature Met Creature
I picked up the 2024 picture book When Creature Met Creature because the author (John Agard) recently won the CLiPPA (Centre for Literary in Primary […]
The Good, The Bad, and the Spooky
The title The Good, The Bad, and the Spooky may slightly confuse readers, at least unless they see the little circle in the corner that […]
Story Rug Reading
Story Rug is a new picture book written by Sophie Blackall and illustrated by Phoebe Wahl. I learned about it, and the collaboration between these […]
Little Blue Truck (board book)
Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry’s picture book series featuring Little Blue Truck has sold, as the website says, more than “20 million books.” I decided […]
Pig the Pug
I recently read Pig the Stinker, and enjoyed it enough that I wanted to double back and read the first book in Aaron Blabey’s popular […]
Punch!
Michael Hall’s 2025 picture book Punch! A Story About Kindness is another title that could be classed as SEL (social-emotional learning), though it is also […]
Taking Flight
While children’s books have grappled with difficult topics for a long time, in recent years more picture books have tried to tackle topics that are […]
Anne and her Tower of Giraffes
Now that’s a book title! Okay, let me start again, more formally. Karlin Gray’s 2022 nonfiction picture book Anne and her Tower of Giraffes: The […]