The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Marget and H. A. Rey by Louise Borden (2005) is a strange and interesting […]
Hello Dog/Hello Human
Hello Dog/Hello Human (2025) is technically kind of a gimmicky book, but it is a good, sensible gimmick and it works. It works because it […]
The Flying Circus
I picked up Patrizia Levi‘s 2024 picture book The Flying Circus for one reason: it was new. I had heard nothing about it, and didn’t […]
Meeting Miss Rumphius
Miss Rumphius is a 1982 picture book, written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Cooney won Caldecott Medals in 1980 (for Ox-Cart Man) and in 1959 […]
Hanukkah Pajamakkahs
I recently read Hanukkah Pajamakkahs, a 2024 picture book by Dara Henry. I picked it up because I’ve been intentionally casting my picture book net […]
Wild about Wild About Books
It is easy to see why Wild About Books won an E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Judy Sierra’s 2004 picture book has a perfect picture […]
Today I “read”…
Today I “read” Unspoken, a 2012 picture book by Henry Cole. I use the quotation marks around “read” because it is a wordless picture book: […]
Duck on a Tractor
I love David Shannon’s David books so much, I wanted to see what his other works are like. So, I picked up his 2016 picture […]
Wonderful, Wicked, and Whizzpopping
How’s that for a title! If you’ve got a good ear and memory, you might remember “Whizzpopping” from BFG. If not, you might have to […]
Today I read…
Today I read Short Dog, Long Dog: A Book of Opposites by Anna Hrachovec (2025). As the subtitle suggests, this book is intended to teach […]