Two for the Show

The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring

Springtime Reads 

Spring is here. With the daf­fodils and the blood­root, the tulips and Dutchmen’s britch­es come thoughts of favorite children’s books.

Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way

Seeds of Hope 

As we enter the dark time of year and who knows what oth­er kinds of dark times we may be fac­ing, we are look­ing for sto­ries of hope — and find­ing them.

Full of Fall

Hello Fall! 

Sep­tem­ber may seem like the month that marks summer’s end­ing, but it is also a month of begin­ning — the tra­di­tion­al start of the school year, the begin­ning of fall.

Chickens on the Loose

Stories to Cluck About 

Why do we love chick­en sto­ries so much? Per­haps it’s because chick­ens are approach­able heroes in sto­ries that we can learn from or laugh with. It is our feel­ing that we can nev­er have enough chick­en sto­ries. Chick­ens can also be where we find whim­sy or bet­ter ver­sions of ourselves.

Not a Book about Bunnies

A Fun Rabbit Habit 

Rab­bits hop all through chil­dren’s books. And what’s not to like about them? We hope you’ll hop into the habit of rab­bit books this spring.

Red A Crayon's Story

Banning Books 

This month we had planned to write about sev­er­al books we love that have been banned, but we real­ized that along with giv­ing you a list of banned books we real­ly want­ed to write about the cur­rent tsuna­mi of book ban­ning in our country.

When the Babies Came to Stay Christine McDonnell

Library Love 

Libraries! We want to look at books about these mag­i­cal places, por­tals to our world, our selves, and oth­er worlds and selves we might become.

How to Write a Poem

Poets and Picture Books 

Poets and pic­ture book writ­ers both know the weight of a word, the sound of a syl­la­ble, the turn of a line, and they both know that every word matters.

Ablaze with Color

Art Will Out 

This month we have been think­ing about the mys­ter­ies of the visu­al arts — how some artists must cre­ate, no mat­ter the circumstances.

Trout Are Made of Trees

Sharing Wonder: April Pulley Sayre 

We have been think­ing about won­der — about the fas­ci­na­tion we have for the beau­ty, the intri­ca­cy, the mys­tery of the work­ings of the nat­ur­al world.

Shirley Chisholm Dared

Celebrating Black Women in the U.S.

We feel called this month to cel­e­brate the many accom­plish­ments of Black women in this coun­try — some of whom are his­tor­i­cal icons, too many of whom we have we have nev­er heard of.

Dreamers

Refugees 

Heard on the news: “No one wants to be a refugee.” Here’s a look at four pic­ture books that share the refugee expe­ri­ence with young readers.

Almost to Freedom

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson: Voices from History 

Books have been a part of Vaun­da Micheaux Nelson’s life since the day she was born. “My moth­er found my name in a nov­el she was read­ing,” Nel­son says. Books and fam­i­ly and his­to­ry form a thread through many of Nelson’s award-win­n­ing pic­ture books.

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