In honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, please welcome Brightview’s Corporate Director of Dementia Care, Cole Smith, who has compiled reading materials for caretakers and their families in order to help ease difficult conversations and explain dementia to children. What books would you add to this list? Thanks so much for your suggestions! 8 Children’s…
Category: Reading Lists: Picture Books
Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
23 Inuit Picture Books
I was so happy to get some Inuit picture books sent to me and I wanted to learn more about the Inuit. The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan and…
19 Great Football Books for Kids
I’m not very knowledgeable about football, but I wanted to learn more by starting a list. But then I found this story about Jasen Bracey: He lost his vision at age 7. Now 15—and still blind—he’s a starting quarterback. I love how sports are a backdrop for the stories that showcase drama as well as…
Multicultural Children’s Book Club with Traci Sorell for Native American Heritage Month
Please join Melissa Konstantatos and Leanna for our seventh 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. November’s event will be held on November 4th and we are celebrating Indigenous People’s Month using We…
Sumo Joe on The Children’s Book Podcast with Matthew Winner
Thank you so much to Matthew Winner for having us on The Children’s Book Podcast: Mia Wenjen and Nat Iwata share SUMO JOE on The Children’s Book Podcast. “SUMO JOE is a story told in rhyme about a boy and his friends upholding a centuries-old tradition considered through a modern lens. It’s the first picture…
10 Picture Books about Sensory Differences and Signed Book GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome neurodivergent author Lindsey Rowe Parker who is guest posting with her favorite kids’ books about sensory differences for Sensory Awareness Month! She also has a new book out, Wiggles, Stomps, and Squeezes Calm My Jitters Down, and we’re doing a signed giveaway below! Have you ever felt the need for a wiggle,…
My FREE Sumo Joe Virtual Classroom Visit
I had so fun giving a virtual author visit to a 4th grade elementary school in Texas. This is my free SUMO JOE author visit in which I tell the origin story of my debut picture book and detail the process of how a picture book gets made from idea to revision to illustration to…







