Barney Saltzberg’s Beautiful Oops! (2010) really is beautiful. It is also kind–more on that in a moment. Beautiful Oops! is a book about making art. […]
Gifts from the Garbage Truck
Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don’t) Throw Away (2024) is a very earnest picture book. A foreword by […]
When You Find the Right Rock
Man, does Mary Lyn Ray know kids. I’m serious. This is someone who has a great memory of what it was like to be a […]
Review of Color Zoo
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert is a quietly impressive little book. I’m not the first to think so: it was a Caldecott Honor Book in […]
Review of Harold and the Purple Crayon
The full title of this DVD is Harold and the Purple Crayon…and more stories to spark the imagination. I picked it up from my library […]
Review of Harold and the Purple Crayon book
Since I recently watched videos of several of the stories in the Harold and the Purple Crayon series (and learned there was more than one […]
Dear Duck, Please Come!
There’s a nice pacing to Sarah Mackenzie’s 2024 picture book Dear Duck, Please Come! There are just a few words to a few lines per […]
I Vote for The Cookie Vote
I recently stumbled across The Cookie Vote, a 2025 picture book by Margaret McNamara, Daniel Berstrom, and G. Brian Karas. If you remember Schoolhouse Rock […]
Pencil!
I just read Hye-Eun Kim’s 2021 picture book Pencil. Beautiful. Simply beautiful. If you like picture books, or know a kid who likes picture books, […]
Recently I Got To See
There’s a great old theater in my town (the Mount Baker Theatre, built in 1927) that hosts a lot of traveling shows. I’ve seen Mary […]