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Well, I hardly know where to start. Brave Girl Melissa Sweet is making a particularly big splash (and not just A Splash of Red, either). She has sharpened her Little Red Writing instruments and illustrated three books this year. She is not only a prolific illustrator, but one who loves...
Picture book author and editor extraordinaire Charlotte Zolotow died yesterday at the age of 98. The children's literature world is mourning her death but celebrating, as well, her enormous contributions to the field.Here on Calling Caldecott our focus is a narrow and intense one: we devote our time and energy to looking at this year's —...
Let's talk about Parrots over Puerto Rico today -- written by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore and illustrated with lush, amazingly detailed fabric and paper collages by Roth. Published by Lee & Low, this nonfiction picture book relates the history of the Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) from 5000 BCE...
Come on, people, hasn't the man won enough? Wasn't his acceptance speech so wonderful that he could never ever be improved upon? Haven't I already reviewed just about every book Klassen has written? Do I really have to talk about this one?Okay, I will.Laszlo is afraid of the dark. (So afraid...
Martha and I are going to try something different here on the blog today: we're going to talk to each other about a picture book — Philip C. Stead's Hello, My Name Is Ruby. We'll start with the positives we each see in the book, and then move to any concerns...
As in most train books, Elisha Cooper talks about the great size of trains and the sounds they make. But Cooper doesn't make a big effort to sell the excitement of trains. Rather, he seems to be standing back and observing closely, never giving in to the obvious. This is a...
First off, let me say that I am not a dyed-in-the-wool Wiesner fan. Sometimes I don't understand his storytelling, and sometimes I find his art a little too perfect, maybe even a little cold. So it will surprise some of my children's book friends (who might or might not have...
There is no question that the Caldecott committee will be taking a good, long look at Jerry Pinkney's Tortoise & the Hare. Past winners always deserve special notice, and this is a companion to his other nearly-wordless Aesop offering and 2010 Caledecott winner, The Lion & the Mouse. Not to mention...
Way back in September, we started the blog with a few possible titles and asked for suggestions. The exclamation points started flyin' when Aaron Becker's Journey was not on the list. Outrage! Horror! Well, sometimes books don't make it to the hinterlands of not-New York and not-Boston, and I had some...
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