In an era when we’ve all learned the separation between essential workers and everyone else, Katie Yamasaki's latest takes on a topic that most people would rather not discuss.

Recommended activities and resources to help foster math and library skills. 

Author Susan H. Kamei discusses her YA narrative nonfiction work When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and why it's so vital to acknowledge and understand this episode in U.S. history.

Friends and colleagues remember Caldecott-winning illustrator Jerry Pinkney, who died this week at age 81.

Everything you want to know (and more!) about chickens and prognostication. Two picture book legends join together to give us one of the silliest new books on record.

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Tell Me Another Story, fromThe Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in collaboration with the Office Performing Arts + Film, highlights past and present creators and advocates whose focus has uplifted children’s literature.

What does The Little Engine That Could have to do with current conversations with children about equity? The latest book by Bob McKinnon provides that answer. Meanwhile I'm just happy that this interview lets me reference the Quad City DJ's.

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Three mock award blogs to check out.

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For the first time since the 1970s, the reading and mathematics scores of 13-year-old students fell.