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October 28, 2024 by Travis Jonker

How Supriya Kelkar Illustrated KAMALA RAISED HER HAND at Warp Speed

Talking with KAMALA RAISED HER HAND illustrator Supriya Kelkar.

September 30, 2024 by Travis Jonker

Cover Reveal Q&A: What Are You Waiting For? by Marcy Campbell and Shelley Johannes

What Are You Waiting For?, a new picture book by Marcy Campbell and Shelley Johannes is out March 4th, 2025. Today, we get a first look at the cover.

October 19, 2023 by Travis Jonker

Read Aloud Hall of Fame #16: SUBSTITUTE CREATURE by Chris Gall

A read aloud that has never let me down.

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Peter Brown and the WILD ROBOT Trilogy

September 27, 2023 by Travis Jonker

Peter Brown takes us behind the scenes of the newest book in the WILD ROBOT series.

Now on The Yarn Podcast: Our 2023 Newbery Medalist

March 22, 2023 by Travis Jonker

Amina Luqman-Dawson takes us behind the scenes of her 2023 Newbery Medal-winning book, FREEWATER, on the latest episode of The Yarn podcast.

Instagramming an Author Visit: Laurie Keller!

September 22, 2022 by Travis Jonker

Author/illustrator Laurie Keller visited our school and I have the pictures to prove it.

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Review: Saturday by Oge Mora

October 21, 2019 by Travis Jonker

SaturdayBy Oge Mora Little, Brown ISBN: 9780316431279$18.99Grades PreK-2Out Oct. 22, 2019 *Best New Book* Find it at:Schuler Books | Your Library Disappointment looms large in the world of the child. Kids, as we know, are YOLO personified. And when pretty much anything is possible at any moment, the opportunities for disappointment are many. But even […]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat

August 3, 2015 by Travis Jonker

It’s my pleasure to reveal the cover for our reigning Caldecott Medalist’s next book, arriving April 12, 2016. From the publisher: In this astonishingly inventive new book from Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, boredom is taken to the extreme. We all know time slows down when you’re bored–but what happens when time slows down so completely […]

Review: A Perfectly Messed-Up Story by Patrick McDonnell

November 13, 2014 by Travis Jonker

A Perfectly Messed-Up Story By Patrick McDonnell Little, Brown ISBN: 9780316222587 $17.00 Grades PreK-2 Out Now Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library For people in the human world, being used is a bad thing. For books in the school library world, being used is a fact of life. Librarians are always looking for […]

10 to Note: Summer Preview 2014

May 9, 2014 by Travis Jonker

You never know how these preview things are going to turn out. Sometimes there’s a bunch of lesser-known books that jump out, other times it’s stuff that’s already been building some buzz. Today is more latter than former. What follows are 10 books for the summer season that look promising. Picture Books Peanut Butter and […]

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