Category: Picture Books

Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos (Calkins Creek, 2024), by Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez (Ages 7-10). Unless you’re an

Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas (HarperCollins, 2022), written by Jeanne Walker Harvey and illustrated by Loveis Wise. (Ages 4-8).   Meet

Pigeon & Cat (Little, Brown, 2022) by Edward Hemingway. Meet Pigeon & Cat Cat is an anti-social stray. He lives in a box located on

The picture book Fly (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 01/11/2022), written by Brittany J. Thurman and illustrated by Anna Cunha, will definitely have you soaring. When Africa

If you read my review of Appleblossom the Possum by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Gary Rosen, you know I kind of have a thing for

Have you ever noticed that no matter how much we talk about the importance of diversity, we still judge rather than embrace the differences in

Have you ever wondered what happens at the fair after all the people go home for the night?  Find out in The Midnight Fair.

Brave Enough for Two (a Hoot & Olive Story) is Jonathan D. Voss’s debut author-illustrator picture book, and it is definitely a timeless treasure for children of all ages, young and old.

The boy in this picture book really, I mean really, wants a cat. Did I mention that this boy really wants a cat? Finally, on Day 427 of asking his parents for a cat, they say yes! At the rescue shelter, the boy immediately recognizes his cat – the one in the cage labeled “Pookie.” And thank goodness, the boy changes the cat’s name to Maximilian Augustus Xavier and calls him “Max” (a favorite nickname around here!).