I picked up Chicka Chicka I Love You, a 2025 picture book, out of curiosity. I had loved the classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom–and who […]
Billie Jean Peet, Athlete
Billie Jean Peet, Athlete is a recent (2025) book by Andrea Beaty, author of Ada Twist, Scientist (and other books in that series, like Iggy […]
What Fish Are Saying: Strange Sounds in the Ocean
I really didn’t know what to expect from What Fish Are Saying: Strange Sounds in the Ocean, a 2025 picture book written by Kirsten Pendreigh […]
Amber’s Atoms
Amber’s Atoms: The First 10 Elements of the Periodic Table (2016) is an odd little picture book, but also a pleasant and useful one. As […]
Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas
Man, was this book fun. Aaron Blabey’s 2015 picture book Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas features vivid, wonderfully ridiculous images. The piranhas in this book have […]
What the Seal Saw
Sherry McMillan’s 2011 picture book What the Seal Saw is a quiet, unified pleasure. The pages with words on them all have four lines; in […]
If You Want a Librarian To Like You…
If you want a librarian to like you, check out “R” is for Research. (Mine stopped checking out my books to look over, and gently […]