Unbreakable – Perfect Picture Book Friday

How can anyone who sees this cover not shudder at our past? The stark...
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Old Blue is My Home – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Not many picture books take on the topic of housing insecurity, and some that...
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Nightmare Jones – Perfect MG Picture Book Friday

* As you might guess from the cover of NIGHTMARE JONES, this picture book...
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The Wanting Monster – Perfect Picture Book Friday

* Sometimes pictures books run an unusual (some might say extraordinary) length that allows...
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One Girl’s Voice – Perfect Picture Book Friday

As someone who was a child in the 1960s, I find it hard to...
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Adi of Boutanga – Perfect Picture Book Friday

I enjoy world literature in translation, and always see each book as a window...
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Plight of the Pelican – Perfect Picture Book Friday

We need this reminder of what the world was like before we banned DDT,...
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Kaho’olawe – Perfect Picture Book Friday

* When we review our individual pasts, it can be difficult to recall painful...
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A Chest Full of Words – Perfect Picture Book Friday

* Words. Words. Words. My favorite topic. So when this book about words and...
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Authors for Children and Their Books

As a children’s book author, I vow to protect the letter E from being...
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