As you may have guessed by reading my posts, I love funny picture books. Today I give you The Bear Must Go On written by Dev Petty and illustrated by Brandon Todd. Bear and his woodland friends are putting on a show, and there are lots of plans to be …
Oh, Picture Book Builders people. Prepare to be a little bit mesmerized. Jessica Young and Rafael López have teamed up to create a masterpiece of a book. Going through the pages is like getting lost in a poem and an art gallery at the very same time. This is what …
Okay. One look at this cover and you KNOW you are going to get yourself a funny book. The title says “sheep” and the art says “definitely NOT a sheep”–this makes little readers feel in on the joke from the start. We see that Brenda is literally a wolf in …
I have noticed a happy trend of many book makers teaming up with their local Independent Bookstores to offer signed books this holiday/pandemic season. It does take some extra effort on both people’s parts. It usually requires that the bookstore is close enough that the author/illustrator doesn’t mind stopping in …
I have been fortunate to have created books with many wonderful illustrators: Jeff Berger, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Troy Cummings, Guy Frances, Alison Friend, Goro Fujita, Arthur Howard, Victoria Hutto, Dan Krall, Jeff Mack, Scott Magoon, Dave Mottram, Lynn Munsinger, Mike Reed, Angela Rozelaar, Dan Santat, Bob Shea, Michael Slack, Liz Starin, …
Oh, Picture Book Builders people, I can BEAR-ly contain my excitement. Today, our friend Mike Boldt has returned for a visit in celebration of Find Fergus. This book had me at the cover. An endearing bear named FERGUS who was hiding behind the title?! I mean, c’mon! This is what …
Oh, Picture Book Builders people. Kim Norman is back with another boo-tiful book. This is what Kirkus had to say in a STARRED review: “[A] winner of a holiday-themed counting book. . .The rhymes read and scan deliciously well and develop vocabulary wonderfully by utilizing nifty words to describe the …
Get your tickets, Picture Book Builders readers! On August 11, there’s a way off-Broadway production coming to bookstores, libraries, and barnyards near you. It’s called The Farm that Mac Built. But Mac doesn’t deserve all the credit for building this farm. Nope. He had a little help. I wrote the …
Oh, Picture Book Builders people, summer is here! Author Meg Fleming and illustrator Paola Zakimi have just the book for us. This is what School Library Journal and Kirkus had to say: This first purchase is a perfect storytime choice to usher in the beach season, and the rhyming, repetitive …
My pal Janee Trasler is an author, illustrator, and esteemed member of PBJeebies, our critique group with Kim Norman and Jessica Young. I asked Janee to stop by Picture Book Builders and give us a little insight into creating an early reader series. Lucky for us, she said YES! The …