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 […]
Cat Nap
Cat Nap, a 2025 Brian Lies picture book, is simply lovely. Beautiful. The sleepy cat on the front cover is napping in the Metropolitan Museum […]
This is Orange
Rachel Poliquin’s 2025 picture book This is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color is lovely and quietly ambitious. It has only a limited story: it […]
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Gloria Houston’s picture book My Great-Aunt Arizona was published in 1992, but it feels older. This is because of the book’s subject matter, its approach, […]
The House Before Falling Into the Sea
I has assumed the title of Ann Sue Hak’s 2024 picture book The House Before Falling Into the Sea was metaphoric–some symbol of something that […]
A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests
Okay, I’ll admit it: I was skeptical about A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests. A lot of kids books about poetry are forced, or […]