I just read Forts for the first time today. It won’t be the last. Forts is a 2025 picture book written by Katie Venit and […]
A Tiger Called Tomás/A Tiger Called Thomas
This is a good book and was a fascinating read, though those two things are very different. I noticed my library had two versions of […]
Buster follows his Nose
Buster follows his Nose (2022) was written by Paula Stevenson and illustrated by Jenny Hale. It’s about family, change, age, love, and dogs. That sounds […]
Salmon Stream
A few days ago I mentioned getting curious about picture books about my region. Salmon Stream, a 2000 picture book by Carol Reed-Jones, illustrated by […]
An Elephant Grows Up
An Elephant Grows Up is a 2006 picture book written by Anastasia Suen and illustrated by Michael L. Denman and William J. Huiett. This is […]
A Change is Gonna Come
This is a strange and ambitious picture book. It succeeds in some ways, and does not succeed fully in others…and I should start by admitting […]
Play With Me
I recently learned of Marie Hall Ets. I may have seen her name on the list of Caldecott Medal winners–she won it in 1960–but I […]
Big Ole
I live in Bellingham, Washington. It’s a good-sized town about 85 miles north of Seattle. It’s fairly artistic and literate, and I got curious if […]
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
I picked up Charlotte Zolotow’s 1962 picture book Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present for one reason: Maurice Sendak illustrated it. I’m glad I did–it […]
The Two Giants
Eve Bunting had a long life and a prolific career in children’s literature: she died in 2023 at the age of 94, after having published […]