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Who We Are

Martin and Root — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:38:33 +0000

These books all remind us of an important truth. We are more than just ourselves. We live in community.

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Transportation, Part II: Riding the Rails

Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom — Fri, 06 May 2022 18:18:29 +0000

In the second part of our Transportation series, we look at Caldecott Award books that consider trains from different vantage points, from the outside or inside, from a real or fantastical world. Climb aboard!

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Transportation, Part I: Hitting the Road

Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:00:58 +0000

From an early age, children are captivated by “things that go,” from climbing on trucks in a Big Rig library event to racing bicycles along a park path. This article offers a line-up of Caldecott Award books that feature various modes of land transportation.

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Teaching Passion

Candice Ransom — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:00:42 +0000

When the director of Hollins University’s graduate program in children’s literature asked me to teach a critical class on the history of children’s book illustrators, I said no. Even with an MFA in writing for children from Vermont College, an MA in children’s literature from Hollins, scores of published books, and years of teaching graduate-level creative classes, I still felt like a fraud.… more

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