September/October 2025 cover from The House That Floated. © 2025 by Guojing, published by Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

Cover from The House That Floated. © 2025 by Guojing, published by Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
An Important Job by Mac Barnett
The author’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature inauguration speech.
Editorial
What Do YOU Think? by Elissa Gershowitz
Narrative ambiguity in uncertain times.
The Writer’s Page
Freedom Braids by Monique Duncan
The power of metaphors in “liberation literature.”
Field Notes
Teaching Our Stories with the Latinx KidLit Book Festival by Tracey T. Flores and Carla España
A conversation between two of the festival’s educator council members about its significance to their academic work and lives.
The Writer’s Page
The Impossibility of Writing Board Books by Rachel G. Payne
Why “short and simple is hard and difficult.”
Cadenza
Crayon Drawing by Shawn Harris
September/October Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed
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