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Rounding up 2026 books from past Newbery Medal and Honor winners!
The Fuse 8 n’ Kate podcast hosted by SLJs own Betsy Bird and sister Kate just hit a big milestone: 400 episodes. To celebrate the occasion, they invited Colby Sharp and I on to debate one of the most unusual Caldecott Medal winning books of all time: The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Is it a […]
A few years ago at an ALA conference, I was talking with a librarian friend when the topic of document cameras came up. I said I never used one. My librarian friend replied with something along the lines of “It’s life-changing.” But I still resisted. I wasn’t interested in using a document camera for a […]
How is our latest Newbery Medal winner doing on the New York Times bestseller list?
A hilariously all-too-accurate look at book titles for middleschoolers.
Can you guess the children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads?
Over on The Yarn podcast, I talked with Elisha Cooper about his excellent new picture book The Rare Bird. Elisha and I chat about what it means to make art for an audience, the joys and challenges of making a book based on your own pet, and why artists think every book has one picture […]
Publishers Weekly just released data on the best selling children’s and YA books of 2025. Here are three things I noticed: 1. After the top three, the hardcover backlist crushes the hardcover frontlist in sales. Save for the three bestselling new books of 2025, the hardcover backlist (Oh, The Places You’ll Go!, The Very Hungry […]
My list of 13 books for the Raina fans in your life.
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