DON’T EAT THE CLEANERS!: TINY FISH WITH A BIG JOB by Susan Stockdale

This title immediately grabbed me. Don’t Eat the Cleaners! sounds like a Poison Control PSA. But the eye-catching cover tells a different story. Have you ever considered how ocean animals get clean? Or how they get dirty in the first place? Susan Stockdale provides an engrossing primer on all things …
Writing About Mary Oliver, Or, Seven Places I Searched for Certainty (With a GIVEAWAY)

The poet Mary Oliver once wrote, “How can the biographer know when enough is known, and known with sufficient certainty? What about secrets, what about errors, what about small black holes where there is nothing at all?…And what about the waywardness of life itself—the proclivity toward randomness—the sudden meaningless uplift …
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Legendary Cakes Interview with Kerisa Greene + GIVEAWAY!

SARA: In honor of 2025, how about a book celebrating a new year’s tradition? In Legendary Cakes, written and illustrated by Kerisa Greene, a pair of siblings spend Tết, the Vietnamese New Year, with their grandparents. The evening before, they prepare bánh chưng, a dish of leaf-wrapped mung beans, rice, …
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Abuelita’s Gift: Interview + Giveaway!
MIXED-UP MOONCAKES Interview and Giveaway!

SARA: In Mixed-Up Mooncakes, written by Christina Matula and Erica Lyons and illustrated by Tracy Subisak, Ruby gets ready for the Mid-Autumn Festival with her nainai and Sukkot with her zayde. Told in an appealing voice and adorable watercolor and pastel illustrations, Ruby takes the reader from her yard to …