If the children’s publishing world has anything to say about it, it appears that our next president will be Hillary Clinton. Already this year two different nonfiction picture books about Hillary Clinton have been published–Hillary by Jonah Winter and Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls are Born to Lead by Michelle Markel. The art in the Markel book, […]
When I was little I devoured my parents’ books about the amazing voyage of Kon-Tiki. But I don’t think my children have ever heard of it. Deborah Kogan Roy’s new book, The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki, tells a new generation the thrilling story of a quirky anthropologist’s attempt to recreate an ancient sea voyage. Thor Heyerdahl wanted […]
A dictionary scholar is a tough sell as a picture book subject. Where’s the action? What’s the illustrator going to illustrate? Sitting around writing and reading? W is for Webster tells the story of sitting around writing and reading with whimsy and humor. Fern picks out whimsical details to tell the story of Webster’s life–as a child […]
In Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes Bird Artist, Margarita Engle skillfully uses poetry to tell the remarkable life story of Louis Fuertes. He began painting birds when the state-of-the-art was to shoot the bird and then arrange it in a lifelike pose. Fuertes, however, couldn’t bear to kill the animals he admired. So he invented new techniques […]