As a lifelong theater lover and a HUGE fan (bordering on stalker) of Renée LaTulippe’s, I knew from the moment I heard about LIMELIGHT that I had to not only get my hands on a copy but I HAD to secure an interview with Renée for this blog. As anyone …
Well, hello again, PBB readers! And thank you, Jill, for the opportunity to share a new book and visit with Aparna Varma, the terrifically talented illustrator of Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Creatures, published this month by Kids Can Press. First, a quick summary: Designed as …
I always find it interesting when similar picture books are released by different authors working with different publishers around the same time. So much of writing and book creating is solitary, so it’s kind of remarkable when different bookmakers end up making similar stories with similar themes — even though …
Things To Do by Elaine Magliaro illustrated by Catia Chien. Open to absolutely beautiful, wallpaper-like end pages of a little girl and her dog in a pattern of flora. They are done in a soft Delft blue palette and instantly make me think, ‘old world’. Really, such a lovely introduction to …
I know. I KNOW. It feels like summer vacation just started. You’ve barely cleaned out your kid’s backpack from this past year. You still have friends’ graduation parties to attend. You haven’t even taken a vacation. But the calendar does not lie, my friend. Now that July 4 has passed …
Lisa Moser takes a different turn in her latest picture book STORIES FROM BUG GARDEN (Candlewick Press, 2016). Moser is known for traditional picture book stories like WATERMELON WISHES, KISSES ON THE WIND and RAILROAD HANK. But in her recent release, she creates a collection of delightful poems about a …
It’s been a rough winter, hasn’t it? Here in central North Carolina, my son has finally returned to school after nearly two weeks of cancellations due to nasty weather. And yet our little bit of snow is nothing compared to what you folks in the northeast and elsewhere have endured. …