Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of my latest picture book! Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng This is a rhyming picture book featuring twelve unusual farms around the world. From vertical gardens in Singapore to ancient terrace farms in Chile, humans have…
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism): Prejudice, discrimination, vandalism, and/or violence against people who are Jewish. From Ruth Bader Ginsberg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Stacy Innerst There are plenty of books on racism and even skin color, but when I tried to make this list, I had trouble finding books for…