This was an interesting read. Gianni Rodari was an Italian teacher, writer, and scholar/theorist of children’s literature and the fantastic. If you haven’t read his […]
Tiny Floating Coral
Mary Auld’s 2024 picture book Tiny Floating Coral is part of her Start Small, Think Big series. These informational books educate young learners about the […]
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Gloria Houston’s picture book My Great-Aunt Arizona was published in 1992, but it feels older. This is because of the book’s subject matter, its approach, […]
Boney
Cary Fagan’s 2022 picture book Boney is interesting and nicely original. When Annabelle, her father, and their dog Scoot go for a walk in the […]
Time is a Flower
Julie Morstad’s 2021 Time is a Flower is another of her picture books that I argue is really an illustrated lyric poem, like a face […]
The Monster in the Lake
Leo Timmer’s The Monster in the Lake is a lovely picture book. The story is simple, but satisfying; one duck invites others to the lake, […]
My Wonderful Christmas Tree
I recently read my first book by Dahlov Ipkar, The Cat at Night. I enjoyed that book, and found the visual design especially strong, and […]
The Fish with the Deep-Sea Smile
The 2014 version of The Fish with the Deep-Sea Smile really shows the difference illustration makes in a picture book. This was written by Margaret […]
The Cat at Night
In his thoughtful afterword to Dahlov Ipcar’s 1969 picture book The Cat at Night, scholar Carl Little mentions that Ipcar said each of her books […]
The House Before Falling Into the Sea
I has assumed the title of Ann Sue Hak’s 2024 picture book The House Before Falling Into the Sea was metaphoric–some symbol of something that […]