Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mexico and his family had a mushroom farm! What an incredible coincidence! Have you ever wondered how to grow mushrooms? Most commercial mushrooms…
Congratulations to Elissa Brent Weissman and Omer Hoffmann, the author and illustrator of Hanukkah Upside Down, for being a Sidney Taylor Book Award Honoree in the picture book category! Let’s learn more about their book, how they celebrated, and more! Hanukkah Upside Down: Interviewing the Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honorees! Hannukkah Upside…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My mother is a breast cancer survivor so this is a topic dear to my heart. I’ve gathered up books for kids and teens about cancer. What am I missing? Thanks for your help! 32 Books About Cancer For Kids and Teens Henry and the White Wolf by Tyler…
Here’s our favorite dinosaur books both stories and non-fiction.
My first reader review for Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime!, illustrated by Kai Gietzen. Published by Eifrig Press has come in! I sent out ARCs (Advanced Released Copies) and am thrilled to get such kind feedback! Thank you so much @DPatron5 on Twitter/X!! @DPatron5 on Twitter/X: Thank you @pragmaticmom for gifting me a copy of…
Black Joy is not … dismissing or creating an ‘alternate’ black narrative that ignores the realities of our collective pain; rather, it is about holding the pain and injustice…in tension with the joy we experience. It’s about using that joy as an entry into understanding the oppressive forces we navigate through as a means to…
I’m so thrilled that Food for the Future made Imagination Soup‘s list of 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids. You can see the entire list here. p.s. Related posts: Food for the Future: Sustainable Values in Children’s Books at the ALAAC23 FOOD FOR THE FUTURE Book Launch with Josh Funk at…