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Here’s some good news. Reading Rainbow is back with the perfect host: librarian Mychal Threets. Here’s the announcement: Here’s how to watch (via ABC News): The new “Reading Rainbow” will be presented as a digital series on the Reading Rainbow website and KidZuko, a children’s YouTube channel. The first of four new episodes premieres this […]
The best (see: only) case cover and endpaper awards in children’s literature are back! That’s right, the 2025 Undies and Endies are officially up and running. It’s time to submit your favorite case covers and end papers of the year. First up, the Undies Case Cover Awards. What’s a case cover, you ask? It’s what […]
In September . . . . . . we checked in on the Newbery and Caldecott race. Or at least the books getting the most love over on Goodreads. You should read Betsy’s excellent predictions over on A Fuse #8 Production as well. . . . we announced a new book! Little Turtle Pond is […]
Don’t mind me, I’m just looking through 2148 books publishing in September, October, and November, and picking out the ten books I’m most looking forward to this fall. Picture Books A Snow Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead September 30 | Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan) | Grades PreK-1 […]
I’m always fascinated with how narrative nonfiction books are made, so it was such a pleasure to have author Nicholas Day on The Yarn podcast. He won a Sibert medal for his last book – The Mona Lisa Vanishes – and in this episode he takes us behind the scenes of his latest: A World […]
We are at the quarter century mark, and the “Best (blank) of the Past 25 Years” lists are in full swing. Slate went and talked with “authors, illustrators, librarians, booksellers, academics, and publishing pros” to come up with their list of the Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. Click here to have a […]
Given the massive popularity of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (52 weeks on the bestseller list and counting), it only makes sense that I would start seeing similar covers out there (whether the similarity is imagined or not). Click here for more Cover Curiosity posts. Today I have one that caught my eye – do […]
Over at the New York Times, I share a dozen books you can recommend with confidence to all the Dav Pilkey fans in your life. Click here to read it.
Can you guess the children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads? A ripply suggestion of a dog plays with a round dot that is supposed to conjure a ball in this wordless mess. Somewhere, Randolph Caldecott is saying in a quiet, genteel English accent, “Why, I’m not sure, old chap, but at least […]
Well, you should be, because it’s coming. The popular picture book series written by Deborah Diesen, and illustrated by Dan Hanna is coming to theaters on March 20th, 2026. And who is voicing the lead character? Nick Offerman – Ron Swanson himself. This is a good move. Head over to Variety to read more about […]
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