It’s OK to cry when someone you like very much has died. — Pat Brisson and Stéphane Jorisch, I Remember Miss Perry At the Educational…
In 2006, Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall created one of the finest early chapter book series, Ivy and Bean. Now five years after number 10, Ivy and…
There is a couple feet of snow outside my front door yet I just got a reference request for my favorite picture books about gardening….
I’m staying home sick today. Went to the doctor yesterday. Turns out that I have influenza. That was the way she said it. Like it…
Pubs in July 2018, Disney/Hyperion Every once in while there is a book that I see in a booth and I just want to read…
Last week when I was doing class visits with 5th graders. I was shocked and saddened that less than a handful of over 125 of…
The number one blog that I read might surprise the children’s literature audience. Ask a Manager. Alison Green was a manager at a non-profit and…
The Caldecott Criteria A “picture book for children” as distinguished from other books with illustrations, is one that essentially provides the child with a visual…
It is hard for the colleagues and friends of two amazing children’s librarians to be in Denver for the American Library Association MidWinter conference….
Launching Little Red Riding Hood: A Comparative Folk Tale Study The Kerlan Collection staff, the Friends of the Kerlan, graduate students, Phd candidates, undergraduates, and…