Recently I read my first book in the Ladybug Girl series (Ladybug Girl and the Rescue Dogs), and only realized after reading it that a) […]
Ruffles and the Bouncy, Bouncy Ball
David Melling, author-illustrator of the 2025 picture book Ruffles and the Bouncy, Bouncy Ball, definitely knows dogs. This knowledge shows up in the tight, almost […]
My Pillow Keeps Moving!
I recently picked up Laura Gehl’s 2018 My Pillow Keeps Moving!…and I don’t know why. I don’t mean that dismissively: I enjoyed the book, and […]
I swear I didn’t know…
Okay, I feel silly, but I swear I didn’t know that the Ladybug Girl appeared in more than one book, even, though I had read […]
Bark Park!
I picked up Trudy Krisher’s 2018 picture book Bark Park! because I enjoyed the books that Brooke Boynton-Hughes had written and illustrated, and I was […]
Always in Trouble
I’m currently working on a picture book about dogs–shocking, I know–and so thought I’d read Always in Trouble, a 2004 picture book by Corinne Demas […]
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 […]