One of the people I am most grateful for is Kirsten Cappy. For years, Kirsten has worked tirelessly to promote children’s books, first as a book consultant for Raising Readers and then as a creator of engagement materials at Curious City, which is how I met her. Kirsten created amazing …
After spending two weeks in Singapore earlier this year and then two weeks in Shanghai, I’m in serious dumpling withdrawal. So what better time than to read picture books about dumplings? A quick search revealed that other authors also have dumplings on the brain. I only needed two books to …
With the end of 2021 rapidly approaching, I thought it would be the perfect time to share a new book about the end of one thing and the beginning of something new. HELLO, TREE by Ana Crespo and illustrated by Dow Phumiruk is subtitled “A story about regrowth.” When a …