A perfect fable of a picture book, expertly written and exquisitely illustrated by dream team Travis Jonker and Matthew Cordell. This is the sort of story that will resonate with every reader (or listener!). It was particularly profound to me as a creator/maker of things.

From viral poem to picture book, we talk today with the creators of an upcoming book that was inspired by the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris. A discussion with Lesle Honore & Cozbi : afuse8production.slj.com/2024/08/27/the…

Happy book birthday to Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder's That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America!

REQUIRED READING. Congrats to Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder on her book finally being out in the world today! And THANK YOU, Amanda, for all the work you’ve done and continue to do.

This book is gonna be in every professional development workshop I do! #NativeAmericans #INDIGENOUS …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2024/08/highly…

Picture, if you will, a book with a lovely story and fun illustrations that is also packed to the gills with small jokes. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Today I talk with The Dictionary Story's creators Oliver Jeffers & Samantha Marshall about what that entails afuse8production.slj.com/2024/08/28/we-…

PW spoke with school librarian and author-illustrator Travis Jonker (Travis Jonker) about how he started writing and illustrating for kids, what he has learned from other creators over the years, and what it’s like living a life surrounded by books and book lovers

I updated my 2024 Books I Love presentation: pinterest.com/mrschureads/20…

Teacher-librarian and author Travis Jonker shared 9 books for kids starting kindergarten with the The New York Times: nytimes.com/2024/08/30/boo…

We've got a case(wrap) of the Mondays! From I Hear You, Mountains by Kallie George and Carmen Mok (Greystone Kids, September 2024) letstalkpicturebooks.com/2024/09/casewr…

AND THEN, BOOM! Lisa Fipps Returns to The Yarn Podcast ow.ly/28WX50TfzVA Travis Jonker Author Lisa Fipps

DIY to the Rescue: 10 Librarian-Tested Passive Programs: Community show-and-tell, low-tech photo booths, and other self-directed programming ideas. ow.ly/oayx50TatXA

Peter Brown's The Wild Robot is a beloved, award-winning #1 NYTimes bestseller & deservedly so. I knew if Dreamworks' animated movie version captured even a fraction of the book's appeal, it would be a winner. Well folks, they outdid themselves: It's an INSTANT CLASSIC!😍👍

When Jayson Tatum comes to your bookstore An Unlikely Story.

I think it’s safe to say that this post from Mark Hamill is the peak of my career.

AND THEN, BOOM! Lisa Fipps Returns to The Yarn Podcast ow.ly/amoM50TiuWq

Author Lisa Fipps returned to The Yarn podcast to take us behind the scenes of her middle grade novel AND THEN, BOOM! Colby Sharp SchoolLibraryJournal theyarn.slj.com/2024/08/30/lis…

2024 National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature Announced bit.ly/3MG19dM

I talked with Jason Chin about his upcoming nonfiction picture book, HURRICANE, and shared the cover. 100scopenotes.com/2024/09/10/cov… Holiday House Publishing, Inc.

If you don't have a copy of JUST ❄️NE FLAKE, are you even ready for winter? bookshop.org/p/books/just-o… ABRAMS Kids