I recently read The Keeper of Stories, a 2025 picture book written by Caroline Kusin Pritchard and illustrated by Selina Alko. I stumbled across The Keeper of Stories–it was listed as a new book at my public library–but it is a striking book, and I suggest it. This book tells the story of the 1966 […]
Thoughts on Ox-Cart Man
Hmm. I recently read Ox-Cart Man for the first time, and I’m of two minds about it. On one hand, it is lovely, in both text and image. It is easy to see why it won the Caldecott Medal in 1980. And how could it not be lovely? Author Donald Hall was an accomplished poet: […]
Today I read…
Today (2/9/2025) I read Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom. I picked up this 2024 nonfiction picture book by Michael Boulware Moore because I’m a fan of Robert Smalls, and wanted to see how a picture book handled his story. If […]