A fun picture book for today's Timeslip Tuesday, as my brain is somewhat fried.  Llama Rocks the Cradle of Chaos , by Jonathan Stutzma...

 I was lucky enough to be at ALA this past weekend in D.C., and enjoyed not only seeing friends, but filling tote bags with (mostly) kids bo...

Gee.  The past few weeks have been the longest I've ever gone without reviewing anything since my blog started over a decade ago.  But I...

Sleeping Bear Press kindly sent a package of review copies of their picture books of 2018 for distribution at Kidlitcon 2019 last month, but...

Here's a fun picture book for Timeslip Tuesday (which is code for "yet another week in which Charlotte wasn't organized enoug...

Sometimes it's a nice change when the books you get in the mail, unasked for and unexpected, are picture books!  Especially when they ar...

Today is Multicultural Children's Book Day! Part of this celebration is for bloggers and publishers/authors to pair up, with the reviews...

I don't often say yes to picture book review requests, but when I was offered The Adventures of Gracie and MonkeyBear , by C.S. O'Ke...

The arrival of a new book by Ben Hatke is always a happy thing in my house.  Even though my boys are several years beyond the ostensible t...

This is the sort of Tuesday when I fall back on a picture book-- Katie and the Dinosaurs , by James Mayhew (1991), because I am a pathetic...

Harlem Renaissance Party , by Faith Ringold (Amistad, January 2015), is a somewhat didactic time travel book--a magic airplane (at least o...

It is not often that I review picture books these days, but sometimes the stars align such that it happens.  On Monday I had the very great ...

I don't often review picture books these days....but a little while ago, one came unasked, unlooked for, unexpected, in the mail-- Ele...

Ben Hatke became a favorite author in our house with his lovely graphic novels about Zita the Space Girl, and we were tremendously excited a...

A few days ago, a beautifully heavy box of books arrived  on my door step, containing the Reading is Fundamental STEAM collection -- a prize...

So back when it was still a (relatively) cool, rainy summer I took part in Armchair BEA ...and was the lucky winner of three picture books ...

I am very sad about the recent, and horribly untimely, death of Australian writer and illustrator Gregory Rogers .  I've already feature...

April is such a hard month--all I want to do is to be outside, getting everything weeded and planted and spruced up, but it's the busies...

Happy Earth Day! By Happy Chance I got three new picture book non-fiction books for little kids last week, all of which are great picks fo...

Did you ever read The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, The Bard , by Gregory Rogers?  It's a  wonderful wordless picture book, involving t...