I’m excited to share that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World was selected by dPICTUS for their list of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023! An active community of international picturebook publishers and agents use the dPICTUS online platform to promote their titles, secure foreign rights deals, discover emerging talent, and make…
Category: Reading Lists: Picture Books
Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: PLANTING STORIES
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. March’s event will be held on March 2nd and we are celebrating Women’s History Month using Planting Stories: The Life of…
Make Way for Ducklings at the Boston Public Garden
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey is an icon of Boston. It’s right up there with Fenway Park’s Sweet Caroline for the 7th-inning stretch! Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey A mother and father duck look for the perfect place to hatch and raise their ducklings in Boston. Their journey is fraught with…
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda & Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award Blog Tour #STBA #JewishBooksAreDiverseBooks
I am thrilled today to be part of a blog tour to celebrate the Sydney Taylor Book Award Finalists. Each of us on the blog tour will be interviewing one award recipient. I am thrilled to be talking to Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda. I am also grateful…
10 Poetry Picture Books for POEM IN MY POCKET
Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 29 and is part of National Poetry Month. Here are 9 Poetry Picture Books for POEM IN MY POCKET. Here’s how to participate: It’s easy to participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day from a safe distance. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: Select a poem…
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE is a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection!
Those with sharp eyes might have noticed the small gold sticker on the upper right-hand cover of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. It’s from Junior Library Guild. For those who are not familiar with Junior Library Guild, they are a curating subscription service for libraries. Their team of expert librarians reads…
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. February’s event will be held on February 2nd and we are celebrating Black History Month using Opal Lee and What It…







