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 […]
Puffins!
Puffins! is a new (2026) nonfiction picture book. Written by Maria Gianferrari and illustrated by Maris Wicks, it is both fun and informative. In fact, […]
Lazlo Learns Recorder
Lazlo Learns Recorder is a 2019 picture book written by Vicky Weber and illustrated by Masha Klot. It has a good structure for a story […]
The Paper Boat
The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story is another picture book by Thao Lam, this one from 2020. A few days ago I reviewed The Line […]
When Creature Met Creature
I picked up the 2024 picture book When Creature Met Creature because the author (John Agard) recently won the CLiPPA (Centre for Literary in Primary […]
The Good, The Bad, and the Spooky
The title The Good, The Bad, and the Spooky may slightly confuse readers, at least unless they see the little circle in the corner that […]
Little Blue Truck (board book)
Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry’s picture book series featuring Little Blue Truck has sold, as the website says, more than “20 million books.” I decided […]
Pig the Pug
I recently read Pig the Stinker, and enjoyed it enough that I wanted to double back and read the first book in Aaron Blabey’s popular […]