Not long ago I read and enjoyed Before They Were Artists, Elizabeth Haidle’s 2021 discussion of various visual artists in graphic novel form, aimed a […]
Happy Birthday, Winnie!
The first Winnie the Pooh book was published October 14, 1926. That makes the silly ol’ bear 100 years old. (That’s 100 in print: Christopher […]
Before They Were Artists
I enjoyed Elizabeth Haidle’s 2021 Before They Were Artists: Famous Illustrators as Kids, and I learned a lot from it. It is a book for […]
The People’s Painter
Sometimes I realize just how much I don’t know. That was the case when I stumbled across a mention of Ben Shahn and looked him […]
a kids book about THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE
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 […]