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 […]
Bittersweet
I enjoyed Bittersweet, Christy Mandin’s 2025 picture book. I also find it useful, and suggest it. I say all of this despite the reading experience […]
Billy Frank Jr.
I live in Bellingham, Washington, but I did not grow up here. That means that even though I have walked on Billy Frank Jr. Street, […]
To Boldly Go
Anyone who grew up in or around science fiction will hear the phrase “to boldly go” and think Star Trek (the original series). And that’s […]
Victor Hugo’s Wondrous Feast
David T. Warner’s 2024 book Victor Hugo’s Wondrous Feast: The True Story of How the Author of Les Misérables Inspired the World to Love is […]
Miya Wears Orange
I recently read This is Orange, and it got me wondering what other picture books out there were about orange. (The idea of a book […]