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Cover Reveal: My Book and Me by Linda Sue Park, ill. Chris Raschka
What do you get when you combine a Newbery Award winner with a two-time Caldecott Award winner? You get a book coming out in July of 2024, that's what. And we have the cover!
On Quiet Protagonists: A Guest Post from Jack Cheng
Does a protagonist have to grab your attention to make you care? Jack Cheng reflects on the kids and characters that are a little more introverted.
Review of the Day: Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith, ill. Boulet
“Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here.” Attend the tale of Bea Wolf, and a better comic for kids you're unlikely to find anywhere.
Outreach, Innovation, and Interviews! Meet Wimee in All His Myriad Forms
Innovative library outreach can take all kinds of forms. Today we talk with the creators of Wimee, and discuss how libraries and outside innovators can work together in all new ways.
Apply for the Bechtel Fellowship, You Clever Librarians Out There!
Interested in studying in one of the finest children's literature libraries in the nation? Now's your chance!
Review of the Day: The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
If you think the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and Brooklyn at that same time makes for an awkward tri-narrative, you are wrong. And if you also think that it would be highly difficult to weave three such perspectives together, there you are correct, but it can be done. The Lost Year proves as much.
The Quadruple Collaboration: Nikki Grimes and Brian Pinkney Discuss Jerry Pinkney and A Walk in the Woods
Poetry and friendship. Family and legacy. The story behind the collaboration of Jerry Pinkney, Nikki Grimes, Brian Pinkney, and Charnelle Pinkney may be one of the finest you read all year.
The Bridge: Featuring Eva Lindström and Jon Klassen in Conversation
One of my favorite parts of this job is talking to picture book creators about their art. But you know what's even better than that? Talking to picture book creators about other picture book creators.
Newbery/Caldecott 2024: Fall Prediction Edition
Committees, I do not envy you your job this year. We just have too many award-worthy books. Someone needs to speak to management about this.
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