Maria van Lieshout's Song of a Blackbird is a harrowing and hopeful story, grounded in historical events, of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Through expressive illustrations and inventive page layouts, this graphic novel weaves documented and imagined histories; past and contemporary timelines; and several characters' narrative arcs into...

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...