Here’s the latest roundup of five-​word reviews, a quick way to get a sense of what’s new in picture books. These aren’t full critiques, just first ...

This week's crushes:The Paper Bridge by Joelle Veyrenc and Seng Soun Ratanavanh, translated by Katy Lockwood-Holmes (Floris Books, May 2025)George ...

I'm taking the next few weeks off to attend some conferences (come say hello if you'll be at Children's Institute or the American Library ...

Our toddler has an obsession with cars, particularly construction vehicles. So books about how buildings are built became a logical extension of ...

Fall is my favorite season, and I love reading about fall with my kids. There are hundreds of picture books about the autumn season, but not many ...

Saving Eli’s Library by Ruth Horowitz and Brittany Jackson  Eli loves going to the library. It is a space for knowledge, community, and connection. When the ...

JJ’s Mom just wrote an article about the Best Picture Books of 2024! Did your favorites make the list? Be sure to check it out on Bookstr!

          INTERVIEW: GoodReadsWithRonna: Welcome, Leah. Congratulations on your debut picture book, Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of ...

A Man and His Cat Picture Book: Fukumaru and the Spaceship of Happiness, by Umi Sakurai, (July 2024, Square Enix Books), $17.99, ISBN: 9781646092819 Ages ...

With a country (or perhaps more accurately, adults) so polarized and divided and a very vocal group attacking the civil rights of thousands of people, it is ...