I had mentioned going back to read early/lesser Sendak, and to look at some smaller format books from that period. Today I’m returning to another […]
Take It Apart
Take It Apart is a 2026 picture book written by Katey Howes and illustrated by E. V. (Elizabet Vukovic). It is fun, and would both […]
One Was Johnny
Maurice Sendak’s 1962 One Was Johnny: A Counting Book is another of the tiny picture books from the period. Like Let’s Be Enemies and This […]
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme is a 2022 picture book written by Avery Monsen and illustrated by Abby Hanlon. Chester Van Chime […]
Cityscape
Someone recently recommended April Pulley Sayre to me, and so I picked up her 2020 picture book Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet. I’m glad […]
Two Together
I enjoyed Brendan Wenzel’s They All Saw a Cat–both the visuals and the ideas. Yesterday I read Wenzel’s 2024 picture book Two Together. I once […]
Windrush Child
John Agard recently won the CLiPPA (Centre for Literary in Primary Education Poetry Award), which is, as I noted in my review of When Creature […]
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish
There’s a classic poem by Wallace Stevens titled “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” It is an austere, imagist poem, and highly influential in […]