Happy 250th Birthday, USA! Shall we try for a few more, do you think? What do Abe Lincoln and Hobbits have in common? How do biographers decide what information to include in biographies? Just as importantly, how do they decide what to exclude? And what has our walk down Caldecott Lane started to tell us…
Happy Pride! People—and by that we mean corporations—often start Pride off strong and end with a whimper. But we recognize that while Pride is about pride, it’s also about resistance. And resistance is a very, very long-form game. Today’s episode looks at four picture book iterations of a classic Russian folktale, The Gigantic Turnip: One…
We wanted to find a Juneteenth book for our little that would address the holiday without requiring a lot of context she just isn’t equipped to understand yet. The Gathering Table did just that, showing us a world where Juneteenth is every day that we’re able to love and honor our families and community without…
How does a story’s point-of-view change our understanding of it? Is narration important in a children’s book? 2023’s THE KITTEN STORY: A MOSTLY TRUE TALE isn’t just another book about cute cats—though it’s got those. It’s also a fantastically illustrated story that teaches kids about the inevitability of disappointment on big days; the…