Seeker of Truth: Kailash Satyarthi’s Fight to End Child Labor by Srividhya Venkat and Danica da Silva Pereira is a new picture biography detailing the work of the Indian children’s rights activist. Readers begin our look at Satyarthi’s life with a story in a story. As a young child, Satyarthi …
Book Description: From bestselling and award-winning Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn creators, author Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham, Things That Go is an original concept board book showing young Kitty-Corns things that race, fly, pedal, paddle, and go Teeny-tiny mini-mooKitty-corns will read with you.Pitter-patter fast and slowlet’s explore some things that go! From sports cars to …
Hello, Picture Book Builders people. I wrote a book called Truck, Truck, Goose! which was illustrated by Zoe Waring. I also very much enjoyed a book called Duck, Duck, Moose! which was written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones. Today, though, I want to highlight another book …
Kirkus’s review about BIRD REHEARSAL, with words by Jonah Winter and superbly illustrated by Stacy Innerst, says that reading it aloud “creates a kind of infectiously joyful mouth music.” ❤️ This is a picture book of bird song. Different birds appear spread by spread creating a building cacophony— until the …
Kids fall in love with all sorts of things. Some expected and some not so much. I wrote SOPHIE’S SQUASH, a picture book about my daughter’s real-life love affair with a butternut squash. And, picture books have been written about kids developing strong attachments to other unexpected things like a …
My first thought, upon seeing the cover of this book by my friend Beth Anderson and illustrated by Jeremy Holmes, was “Wow. I HAVE to read this.” There’s so much going on that I wanted to investigate! My second thought was “Uh-oh.” Because wasn’t there already another book on this …
Okay, before I say ANYTHING, can we just look at this GORGEOUS cover??? I mean, seriously?? I think Renata Liwksa is an incredible illustrator… But EQUALLY incredible is author Kelsey E. Gross who wrote the GORGEOUS words for this GORGEOUS book (I think the word of the day may be …
“Sara!” a voice called across the exhibit floor of the ALA Annual Conference a couple weeks ago. I looked around for a colleague or friend, but instead found a stranger. She handed me a hot pink ribbon to stick on my attendee badge boldly printed with “THE SARA CLUB.” Also …
I was in Singapore recently to speak at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content and was incredibly fortunate to meet Melanie Lee. Melanie was not only the moderator of one of my panels, but is also a children’s book author, a journalist, a multimedia project creator, and a teacher of …
Hello, Picture Book Builders people! This post is brought to you by my friend (and writing extraordinaire) Brenda Maier. ENJOY! 🙂 Nearly everybody loves a picture book with a puppy or kitten on the cover. But a picture book featuring an enormous blue monster? I’m picking up that one. Throw …