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It’s animal eyes and how they see! What is not to love?

King Alice iis the first book Matthew Cordell wrote and illustrated since last year’s Caldecott-winning Wolf.

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Find out where Trees ranks among First Second's line of Science Comics.

From advertising to book-making to producing animated digital shorts: Is there anything this Latinx author-illustrator can’t do?

SLJ reviews the two seasons of the bilingual “Cantícos” digital shorts, based on Susie Jaramillo’s board books featuring traditional Latin American nursery rhymes, now available on NickJr.com and the NOGGIN app.

Recently, John Legend joined beame the latest to complete the EGOT, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award. What's the children’s book equivalent and who is in the club?

Authors Josh Shipley and Andrew Cangelose talk about what started as a just-for-fun-project and became a published hybrid comic/picture book.

Pride is a contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, set in the rapidly-gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. Marie Marquardt speaks to 

I’m You’re Neighbor Project has a mission to “Welcoming immigrants, refugees, and migrants as neighbors through the sharing of children’s literature and other stories.”

Can YA fantasy speak truth to power? Author Sayantani DasGupta addresses that question and more with Elana K. Arnold, Betsy Cornwell, Kiersten White, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Mimi Yu.

Jonker talks to the author then reveals the cover for her spring 2019 title.

Betsy Bird doesn't know which way the awards committee will go in a "crazy year." 

A quick recap and description of titles up for the National Book Award.

It's OED's 90th birthday, and it is bringing the gift—a year free online access for non-subscribing public schools.

A frequently challenged book club pick; insisting on the Pledge of Allegiance 

Eight titles made the longlist for the American Association for the Advancement of Science picture book prize.

Lesson plans and ideas for preK to eighth grade.

The incredible life story of Hedy Lamarr is now a children's picture book. And Betsy Bird gives us a look at the cover of the February release.

A look at some of the latest books for tweens and teens.

The second-generation Cuban American author talks to SLJ about her sophomore YA novel, path to publication, and advice to aspiring teen writers.

Aron Nels Steinke has created a graphic novel about a fourth grade classroom that quickly feels like an old friend.

Betsy and her sister Kate debate the degree to which Mr. and Mrs. Fox are starving their children, what precisely is going on with the Giggle-Gaggle household, and what a “skulk”/”leash” is.

A "smart little book," reviewed by  Betsy Bird.

This cadre is made up of Latinx women and non-binary creators with debut and sophomore fictional books for children and teens releasing between Fall 2018–2019.

An Amazon-inspired network of preschools could be in America's future, and more in NewsBites.

Travis Jonker takes a look at news of the week in children's and YA publishing.

In the UK, Mr. David Mackintosh is a well-known graphic designer, art director, author, and illustrator. If the pages in this trailer are any indication, he'll be famous here soon, too.

For these authors, visits to school libraries are all about the interaction with students.

Teaching titles about mathmeticians Katherine Johnson and Sophie Germain.

From the return of the Interrupting Chicken to the charming YA collaboration by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, SLJ's top September picks are titles librarians will want to add to their shelves.

While classroom and school libraries share the larger goal of advancing literacy, they often serve different purposes—and compete for the same resources.

How can educators incorporate materials that explore empathy and encourage social and emotional development? An educator has some suggestions.

Listen to Travis Jonker chat with 2018 Pura Belpré award winners Ruth Behar, Pablo Cartaya, Celia C. Pérez, and Juana Martinez-Neal. 

Featuring young protagonists and realistic scenarios, these inviting picture books demonstrate how kids can make choices that positively affect their classroom community and beyond.

Damon, library support specialist at Denver Public Schools (DPS), and Torres, teacher librarian at DPS’s Montbello Campus, on Angie Thomas’s blockbuster YA novel and the upcoming film. 

The opioid crisis is finally finding its place into YA storylines.

Betsy Bird looks at some of the best fictional picture books with photographic illustrations.

Travis Jonker takes a look at some of the latest news and trends in children's publishing.

Betsy Bird talks to Ellen Klages about her new middle grade book, Out of Left Field, which takes feminism to the sports world.

Heavy Medal wants readers to "go wild" offering potential Newbery titles.

A climb up Mount Kilimanjaro and a mission to improve a district's libraries while motivating others to advocate for themselves.

Boyd discusses the connection between street lit and challenged books, while Winner describes the frequently challenged LGBTQ-themed picture books that he shares with his elementary students. 

Harry Potter fans can spend the rest of the year immersed in J.K. Rowling's magical world while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first book's publication in the United States.

The life cycle of the blueberry, how much sugar to use when canning, and other mysteries explained on this week's episode of Fuse 8 n' Kate.

Artist Nathan Sawaya makes life-size LEGO sculptures, and a few years ago he started making little men and positioning them around New York City, hugging trees and signposts and such. This was the genesis of Hugman, the little red character that accompanies the little boy Nathan in these cheery self-published picture books.

Teaching ideas for a book that invites readers to notice the beauty and mystery of the natural world around us.

The Heavy Medal team is back from a summer of reading and ready to read more Newbery contenders and discuss them with their readers.

Now the time is right, the planets have aligned, and today we get to see the new cover for Unicorn is Maybe Not So Great After All.

Whenever someone complains about how dark YA is, it is almost always an adult, writes Karen Jensen, who brings the discussion back to YA's primary audience: teens. 

Here it is, our final cumulative reader suggestion list before we start up our book discussion in September. 

If you want an instructional poetry book that feels like what happens when a zine consumes a human from the inside like a xenomorph in Alien and releases an explosion of heat and heart and light and life, there’s really only one choice out there. And it’s from a former National Poet Laureate, too.

These SLJ School Librarians of the Year have big things in store for their students.

These picture books address the sights, sounds, and seeming magical things that happen when night falls.

Check out these picture books that feature the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Makey Makey, Hummingbird Duo, and Scratch can turn an ordinary poster or diorama into a talking, moving educational presentation.

Lafayette Library Board of Control President Joseph Gordon-Wiltz has submitted a letter of resignation in the wake of Drag Queen Story Hour protests. 

Looking ahead to the new school year, suggestions for ways that changes in children’s literature can help guide changes in instruction—think of it as a recipe for book magic. From The Classroom Bookshelf.

SLJ reviews the blockbuster Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's YA series opener—epistolary style.

The author of So You Want to Talk About Race spoke with SLJ about what educators, and specifically librarians, can do to better serve students of color and change institutional bias and patterns of systemic racism in U.S. education.

Betsy Bird updates readers on all the news she can before her laptop battery dies.

Jonker offers the rare—and rave—review of a board book.

Highlights from this week’s list of new releases.

Podcasts, books, and more news in Jonker's Morning Notes.

As teachers post pictures of well-stocked classroom libraries, Karen Jensen sees another example of the disparity in funding in public education.

When it comes to questions about climate change, it’s imperative that we urge children and teens to seek answers that enlighten, inspire, and stimulate them to get involved as responsible inhabitants of this planet.

Elementary classroom teachers and librarians will want to add these titles to their collections.

Traditional tales remain popular with young readers and provide a plethora of possibilities for classroom explorations.

In 2000, a nurse on an HIV/AIDS unit began drawing comics about her experiences on the job. Those comics launched a growing genre, graphic medicine—comics and graphic novels that portray the experience of illness and explore medicine. 

We asked K–12 and public librarians to share their strategies—from genrefying to broadcasting booktalks.

Joyce Valenza covers Story Maps,  which feature a bounty of primary sources, including period newspapers, images, photographs, quotes as well as innovative, narrative approaches to mapping data.