I picked up Patrizia Levi‘s 2024 picture book The Flying Circus for one reason: it was new. I had heard nothing about it, and didn’t […]
Meeting Miss Rumphius
Miss Rumphius is a 1982 picture book, written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Cooney won Caldecott Medals in 1980 (for Ox-Cart Man) and in 1959 […]
Hanukkah Pajamakkahs
I recently read Hanukkah Pajamakkahs, a 2024 picture book by Dara Henry. I picked it up because I’ve been intentionally casting my picture book net […]
Wild about Wild About Books
It is easy to see why Wild About Books won an E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Judy Sierra’s 2004 picture book has a perfect picture […]
Today I “read”…
Today I “read” Unspoken, a 2012 picture book by Henry Cole. I use the quotation marks around “read” because it is a wordless picture book: […]
Duck on a Tractor
I love David Shannon’s David books so much, I wanted to see what his other works are like. So, I picked up his 2016 picture […]
Wonderful, Wicked, and Whizzpopping
How’s that for a title! If you’ve got a good ear and memory, you might remember “Whizzpopping” from BFG. If not, you might have to […]
Today I read…
Today I read Short Dog, Long Dog: A Book of Opposites by Anna Hrachovec (2025). As the subtitle suggests, this book is intended to teach […]
Noodles?
Some books about other times or other countries plod. They are so clearly educational that they weigh themselves down with purpose. Thankfully, the opposite is […]
If You Want a Librarian To Like You…
If you want a librarian to like you, check out “R” is for Research. (Mine stopped checking out my books to look over, and gently […]