Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
Please welcome my guest author today, illustrator Suzanne Kaufman, who talks about her inspiration for All Are Welcome in response to President Trump’s travel ban. She wanted to do something positive, so she offered her skills as an illustrator to create a poster and the book was born of this effort. All Are Welcome by Alexandra…
Thank you to Nothing But the Truth for sponsoring this post. I’m trying something new today. This is my first sponsored post for a publisher. What I am promising is an honest review of their books. What they get by sponsoring is that I will read and review their books in a timely way. Typically,…
My daughter is going to art school and so today I dedicate this post to her and her future classmates celebrating strong, independent female artists! p.s. She won The Newton Art Association Scholarship and didn’t tell us she entered. Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker…
Today is International Jazz Day! To celebrate, please welcome my guest author today, Matthew Gollub, with his list of jazz books for kids. We are giving away a signed copy of The Jazz Fly (hardcover book with CD and free download). Please fill out Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. Matthew Gollub is the award-winning author…
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari! We are giving away a copy of her newest nonfiction picture book, TERRIFIC TONGUES. Please enter at the bottom. ————– I’m celebrating the release of my first expository nonfiction STEM title, Terrific Tongues, illustrated by Jia Liu and published by Boyds Mills Press! What’s expository nonfiction you…
Please welcome my guest author, Jackie Azúa Kramer, today with her newest picture book, If You Want to Fall Asleep. You might remember her earlier from her post on picture books that celebrate imagination and friendship, and her book The Green Umbrella. We are giving away a signed copy of If You Want to Fall Asleep….
Please welcome my guest author today, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, with her list about 12 Books About Making Things. We are also giving away her book, With My Hands: Poems About Making Things. Please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. p.s. Here is one more true story about making things. Piece by Piece: Ernestine’s Gift…