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In September . . . . . . we checked in on some Newbery and Caldecott prospects. The Mock Newbery and Caldecott lists over at Goodreads are always worth a peek. . . . I shared 10 (and then a lot more than 10) books I’m looking forward to this fall. Why share just 10? […]
Personally, I’m still recovering from the completely epic Eliza Kinkz cover reveal/interview over at A Fuse #8 Production recently. But while recuperating, I wanted to highlight a very cool solution she devised for a common author visit problem. As Eliza shares here, her school visits would often end with student drawing requests going unmet. To […]
Over at the New York Times, I shared 10 books for fans of the the Who Would Win? series. I leaned into the “versus” aspect of those books, with some fiction, nonfiction, picture book, and early reader options. FYI: I’m sharing the gift link to read below, but the New York Times website has changed […]
Colby talks with a living legend.
A roundup of 2026 Halloween books.
When I saw the headline, “Have a Book Idea? This $40 AI Tool Can Handle the Story, Art, and Layout” one word popped into my head: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I could do a sentence-by-sentence reaction to this article (in, ugh, “Entrepreneur” no less), but my feelings can really just be summed up by Oscar’s reaction to Angela’s […]
Remember my post from yesterday? The one where I tried to explain how hard my life is because making a fall preview list of just 10 books is challenging? Well, I remembered I could just make a follow-up post and share a whole bunch more. Here’s a good ol’ photo dump of more books coming […]
This one was the most challenging yet. In trying to highlight the 10 books I’m most excited about this fall, I left out so many good ones. I’m probably going to do a “10 to (Also) Note” follow-up tomorrow with a photo dump of all the great books not on the list today. All of […]
Today (September 15) is International Dot Day – a day all about celebrating creativity. It’s based on the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We celebrate every year in our library, and here are some of the things we do. We visit the website I like to show this to students first, so they […]
How It Started: How It’s Going: (Click to enlarge) Little Turtle Pond (written by Carter Higgins and illustrated by me) publishes on May 4th, 2027. Carter calls it Chicka Chicka Boom Boom meets Rosie’s Walk, and I think that sums it up perfectly. Little Turtle Pond is a rhythmic, rhyming, read aloud and I can’t […]
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