I have a great appreciation for wordless picture books. They are a very pure form of picture books, telling entire stories with images alone. Chris […]
Ernesto Cisneros /SCBWI
Yesterday I took part in a webinar with Ernesto Cisneros hosted by SCBWI Socal (the Southern California regional group of the Society of Children’s Book […]
a bear, a bee /a bear, a fish
Recently I read a bear, a man, and a donut van. Since I both enjoyed the book and found it well done, I sought out […]
Lotte’s Magical Paper Puppets
Lotte’s Magical Paper Puppets: The Woman Behind the First Animated Feature Film (2020) is an interesting but uneven picture book. Written by Brooke Hartman and […]
I Built a Rocket Ship
I almost cried reading I Built a Rocket Ship. This recent (2026) picture book written by Anna Lazowski and illustrated by Jennica Lounsbury tells a […]
The Hat
Jan Brett’s picture book The Hat was published in 1997, but it could easily have been published 10, 20, even 50 years earlier. It has […]
Gifts From Crows
Gifts From Crows is a recent (2026) picture book written by Gideon Sterer and illustrated by Shadra Strickland. The book is nonfiction: it shares the […]
Little Bear and the Marco Polo
I recently started reading the Little Bear series written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday. Little Bear and the Marco Polo (1957) […]
Before They Were Authors
Not long ago I read and enjoyed Before They Were Artists, Elizabeth Haidle’s 2021 discussion of various visual artists in graphic novel form, aimed a […]
a bear, a man, and a donut van
The 2026 picture book a bear, a man, and a donut van is surprisingly good.I say surprisingly in part because I had not read the […]