I was skeptical when I saw the title The Skeleton and the Cat. I though it was going to be another cutesy Halloween picture book. […]
Tight Times
I’ve mentioned several times that my public library puts tags/stickers on picture books to help folks sort them. I mentioned this in part because some […]
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 […]
Small in the City
Sydney Smith’s 2019 picture book Small in the City is sad and beautiful. It starts with several wordless pages. Some are blurry, and the color […]
Negative Cat
Negative Cat is a 2021 picture book by Sophie Blackall. As I’ve previously mentioned, I saw and met Sophie Blackall at the Children’s Literature Conference. […]
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat had me at the title. With a title like this–long, exaggerated, and with alliteration–meant this was […]
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 […]
Spooky
Sally Anne Garland’s 2025 picture book Spooky is good, focused, unified, simple picture book. I use those terms because some picture books are quite complicated […]
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Recently I read The Tiger Who Came to Tea. It was the first time–yes, I’m decades late to the party–and I loved it. This started […]
Ruffles and the Teeny, Tiny Kittens
Yes, this is another book in the Ruffles series. (I previously discussed Ruffles and the Bouncy Ball and Ruffles and the Red, Red Coat. ) […]