Heart String

I feel like I should seek out some gentle, looping font to write about Heart String by Brooke Boynton-Hughes (2022), because the title is made […]

Be a Maker

Be a Maker, a 2019 picture book written by Katey Howes and illustrated by Elizabeth Vukovic, is another I’ve picked up for the thinnest of […]

Courage Hats

This was a genuinely original book in many ways. It probably helped that I didn’t know anything about Kate Hoefler’s 2022 picture book when I […]

To Walk the Sky

To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities by Patricia Morris Buckley is an essential addition to school libraries. The core story […]

Always in Trouble

I’m currently working on a picture book about dogs–shocking, I know–and so thought I’d read Always in Trouble, a 2004 picture book by Corinne Demas […]