I really like the front cover of The Path. The front of this recent (2026) picture book reads “The Path” in large brown letters along […]
Every Dog in the Neighborhood
Sometimes you feel like a book was written for you. That was the case for me with the 2022 picture book Every Dog in the […]
Buddy and Earl go exploring
I am late to the Buddy and Earl series. In fact, I hadn’t known it existed until after I read Buddy and Earl go exploring, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Walter the Farting Dog
Okay, technically, the 2001 picture book classic Walter the Farting Dog is not directly about dirty dogs, like Harry the Dirty Dog…but farts are definitely […]
Harry the Dirty Dog
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m currently writing a picture book about a dog who gets dirty intentionally, and so I’m reading picture books about dirty […]
Pig the Stinker
I’m currently working on a picture book about a dirty god–a dog that gets dirty intentionally–and so I’m reading other books about dirty dogs. This […]
My Dog Mouse
Eva Lindstrom’s My Dog Mouse is lovely, lyrical, and touching. It gives a very real sense of what kids wants, and of dog-person relations. The […]