Desert Song, written in spare, lyrical prose by Laekan Zea Kemp and illustrated by Beatriz Gutiérrez Hernández, celebrates interconnectedness. As a multigenerational family gathers at sundown to make music, the landscape surrounding their desert home shares the stage. A menagerie of lively creatures is drawn to the family’s song, and,...

Artist-couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude made site-specific works — massive wrapped monuments and land-art spanning miles — which might seem unwieldy subjects for a picture book. But there is much in these artists’ adventures for children to love, and in G. Neri's Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World: The Story of Two Groundbreaking Environmental Artists, Elizabeth Haidle’s...