I had mentioned going back to read early/lesser Sendak, and to look at some smaller format books from that period. Today I’m returning to another […]
Take It Apart
Take It Apart is a 2026 picture book written by Katey Howes and illustrated by E. V. (Elizabet Vukovic). It is fun, and would both […]
Pierre
I’m continuing my exploration of the Nutshell Library, of books illustrated by Maurice Sendak that aren’t Where the Wild Things Are, and, more generally, of […]
One Was Johnny
Maurice Sendak’s 1962 One Was Johnny: A Counting Book is another of the tiny picture books from the period. Like Let’s Be Enemies and This […]
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme is a 2022 picture book written by Avery Monsen and illustrated by Abby Hanlon. Chester Van Chime […]
Cityscape
Someone recently recommended April Pulley Sayre to me, and so I picked up her 2020 picture book Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet. I’m glad […]
When Creature Met Creature
I picked up the 2024 picture book When Creature Met Creature because the author (John Agard) recently won the CLiPPA (Centre for Literary in Primary […]
The Couch in the Yard
2025 picture book The Couch in the Yard is rare in several ways. First, it focuses on a rural American setting. Not an idealized farm, […]
Hey Diddle Diddle (board book)
Since I’m working on a picture book built around reworking a classic song, I’m reading picture books built around songs. Recently I read Eve Bunting’s […]
Stop That Mop!
Each year since 2004, the American Library Association gives the The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award to American books for beginning readers. ALA names both the […]