To Reserve Your Seat For the Kerlan Award with Jon Scieszka go to https://www.continuum.umn.edu/reg/reservations-kerlan-award-ceremony/ The Kerlan Award is given annually by the Friends of the…
This is an annotated list of current titles recommended for purchase. I appreciated the short descriptions in Spanish and English and the recommended ages for…
Children’s Literary Obituaries: What We Lost in 2019 Betsy Bird over at School Library Journal has shown a light on a few children’s literature creators…
When Holly from the Red Balloon and I make our gift giving recommendations on Minnesota Public Radio, there is never enough time for all the…
John Borger, 1951- 2019 John Borger, was one of the nation’s preeminent first amendment lawyers, spending four decades before retiring from the Faegre Baker…
Holly Weinkauf from the Red Balloon and I have selected more books than we have time to talk about on MPR today Friday December 6,…
Best of the year If I had to choose one picture book that resonated with me for most of the year it would be Kao…
Finish this sentence Thanksgiving is the third (whoops fourth, thank you to the many readers who emailed me) Thursday in … That’s right November. Thanksgiving…
Walter Wick, A Drop of Water “The most spectacular photographs ever created on the subject of water appear in this unique science book by Walter…
This was my First Fridays presentation on October 4, 2019. “Canine characters take center stage as we examine the works of significant children’s book artists…