Gifts From Crows is a recent (2026) picture book written by Gideon Sterer and illustrated by Shadra Strickland. The book is nonfiction: it shares the […]
The Cloud Book
If you know Tomie dePaola, it is probably due to his classic Strega Nona. (And if you haven’t read that, go and do that now.) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish
There’s a classic poem by Wallace Stevens titled “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” It is an austere, imagist poem, and highly influential in […]
Puffins!
Puffins! is a new (2026) nonfiction picture book. Written by Maria Gianferrari and illustrated by Maris Wicks, it is both fun and informative. In fact, […]
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 […]
Giraffe Math
Stephen R. Swinburne’s 2023 picture book Giraffe Math includes good scientific facts for kids interested in giraffes (or nature/science more generally). Some of those facts […]
Who Nests Here?
Karen Jameson’s 2026 nonfiction picture book uses the question in the title to guide readers though her book. Who Nests Here? Twenty-four Extraordinary Animal Homes […]