Okay, I feel silly, but I swear I didn’t know that the Ladybug Girl appeared in more than one book, even, though I had read […]
Diggers, Dozers and Dumpers
Diggers, Dozers and Dumpers : Small Stories About Big Machines by Ole Konnecke is a new-in-English picture book. (It was published in English in 2025, […]
Steamboat School
Steamboat School is presented in a color scheme that suggests the sepia of old photos, or an older book that has faded with the passage […]
The Squirrels Who Squabbled
Sigh. I feel like I should like Rachel Bright’s 2017 picture book The Squirrels Who Squabbled more than I do. Jim Field’s illustrations are colorful […]
The Bill of Rights
Since today is the 4th of July, I thought I’d take a look at The Bill of Rights: A Kid’s Guide to Freedom in America […]
Bark Park!
I picked up Trudy Krisher’s 2018 picture book Bark Park! because I enjoyed the books that Brooke Boynton-Hughes had written and illustrated, and I was […]
Crystal Kite
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (https://www.scbwi.org/) is the most influential organization in the United States for children’s book creators. SCBWI gives a […]
Happy Sloth Day!
I had to laugh. I put Happy Sloth Day! (2022) on reserve at my local public library… and it took a reaaally loooong time to […]