If Wendell Had a Walrus, written by Lori Mortensen and illustrated by Matt Phelan is a quiet, pleasant surprise of a picture book. The premise for the first half of the book is in the title: Wendell sees a cloud that looks like a walrus, and starts wondering about real ones. This leads to some […]
I Am NOT Your Hat!
Lisa Bentley’s 2025 picture book I Am NOT Your Hat! is a bright and vivid book. Burt is an oversized bird–an ostrich, by appearance–who likes to walk around wearing his much smaller bird-friend Dot on his head. Other birds praise Burt for his lovely hat, but Dot isn’t pleased at being considered Burt’s hat. There’s […]