Carlos Moreno’s 2025 a kids book about THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE is a serious book about a serious and under-discussed topic, the Tulsa Race Massacre […]
The Long Hike
I can sum up my response to Meghan McCarthy’s new (2026) picture book The Long Hike: The True Story of the First Appalachian Thru-Hike easily: […]
Books About Books (and authors), Nonfiction, Perspectives on Children's Literature, Picture Book Adjacent, Review
Who Was A. A. Milne?
This is another picture book-adjacent title, rather than being an actual picture book. Who Was A. A. Milne? (2021) by Sarah Fabiny (and illustrated by […]
Foote Was First!
Foote Was First! How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change is a recent (2026) nonfiction picture book written by Jen Bryant and […]
Afterward, Everything Was Different
This 2023 picture book is ambitious and intriguing, but not fully successful. The ambition comes from two sources. First, author Jairo Buitrago and illustrator Rafael […]
Anne and her Tower of Giraffes
Now that’s a book title! Okay, let me start again, more formally. Karlin Gray’s 2022 nonfiction picture book Anne and her Tower of Giraffes: The […]
The Tower of Life
Chana Stiefal’s 2022 picture book The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs is brave and ambitious. It tells […]
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me
Ann Grifalconi’s 2007 picture book Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me is a book of layered history. It is told as a family story, by […]
Black Diamond Kings
Charles R. Smith Jr.’s 2025 picture book Black Diamond Kings is a multi-faceted pleasure. For a lifelong baseball fan like myself, the book was a […]
Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature
There have been many books, kids books, and films about Harriet Tubman, and rightly so, given her bravery and historical importance. I’d say that one […]