Elizabeth Bird

Read the plot of Kick Push on paper and it sounds like something you’ve seen a hundred times before. Read the actual book and there’s nothing to compare.

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Continuing our discussion this week of Fall Holidays, today we debut the lovely cover of new author Shachi Kaushik's DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME.

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If you were hoping for an interview today that might touch on Calvin Coolidge's raccoon, one-legged roosters, and Michelle Obama's book Becoming, boy are YOU in luck today! We premiere the latest spooky adorable Jarrett Dapier book and you will not want to miss it.

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"I think there should be books for people and kids who don't see fairness and justice delivered so neatly in their lives and I want to make books for them." Today we have a wonderful interview with author/illustrator Matthew Forsythe about his latest book, MINA.

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Read the letter penned by a coalition of more than 250 influential educators and librarians. They're asking the New York Times to add three children’s nonfiction bestseller lists to complement the existing lists that focus on juvenile fiction

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President's Day is coming so what better book to do this week than that old Caldecott Award winner So You Want to Be President? Question is: How has it aged in the intervening 21 years?

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Marshmallow Clouds is one of those books that works so effectively for young readers that it feels as though the co-authors (co-poets?) had been honing their talents for kids, specifically, for years. One of those books that will subtly coil its way around your heart, even as you obliviously flip page after page after page.

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Emma Bland Smith comes on the blog today to discuss writing a bit of picture book history. Her subject? Robert McCloskey and those darned ducklings he took into his home.

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Remember when toilet paper was hard to find in grocery stories? It was Sophia Gholz who saw that fact and thought to herself, "There's a book in this." She joins us on the blog today.

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