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In Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira (also published in Spanish as Juego de libertad: Mestre Bimba y el arte de la capoeira), Duncan Tonatiuh immortalizes Manoel dos Reis Machado (1899–1974), more commonly known as Mestre Bimba. Bimba’s contributions to capoeira, the Brazilian jogo (game) that...
Readers are beholden to the many writers and illustrators who continue to play catch-up with United States history, filling in huge gaps with books such as That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith, or Olaudah Equiano's story of his life as a slave, as told in Nearer My Freedom by Monica...
Recently one of the readers of my blog was monumentally peeved at me, and not without just cause. I had written the third of my Newbery/Caldecott prediction posts for 2024 on my School Library Journal blog, and the reader pointed out that I was, shall we say, a little loosey-goosey...
A picture book about a contemporary conceptual artist is already a difficult task. There’s a lot to unpack and consider when presenting the work of a prominent conceptual artist and activist to a young audience. Heck, even we adults struggle to make sense of conceptual installation art, so I want to...
While she has been illustrating children’s books for at least a decade, I first took note of Diana Sudyka in 2020 with How to Find a Bird, written by Jennifer Ward. Like many others, I started hiking as a pandemic pastime, and these hikes naturally led to my wanting to...
Dear Readers, Thank you to everyone who commented and sent in your nominations. The results are in, as are some surprises! Below you can see a list of all of the titles that were nominated, and a running total of how many times that title got nominated. I have organized...
This was the year when one picture book creator after another gave us a glimpse of the neighborhood that informed the writer or illustrator within, including Raúl the Third’s exuberant ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read, in which an entire Mexican American community celebrates books and literacy with bilingual abandon, and Margarita Engle’s Water Day, where...
When I did my initial just-read-the-pictures look through Mine! (see Step 5 of Robin Smith’s advice), I found myself looking at this picture book as if it were a graphic novel. You know those occasional dramatic moments when the multi-panel structure gives way to an illustration that takes up the...
Like many people, I’ve been captivated by the recent New York Times article that takes a deep dive into the cookies that Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster devours. (“Nom Nom Nom. What’s the Deal with Cookie Monster’s Cookies?”) What are those cookies made of? How do they crumble? Are they real?...
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