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 […]
Navigating Night
Julie Leung’s 2026 Navigating Night is a quiet, heavy, important picture book. It follows a Chinese-American girl as she and her father navigate a dark […]
The Tower of Life
Chana Stiefal’s 2022 picture book The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs is brave and ambitious. It tells […]