Happy Tuesday Everyone! I’m absolutely delighted that you stopped by because Tonya Duncan Ellis is with us today to talk about her debut picture book, They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park! Continue reading
Happy Tuesday, everyone! Join me in welcoming Erin Dealey, who is here to celebrate her upcoming book, Just Flowers—and at the same time, to get us in the mood for spring!
Just Flowers opens on a winter day with snowflakes and snow drops and immediately starts spreading sunshine with its upbeat hero, Izzy, who shares flowers with neighbors and the surrounding community. Izzy also shares botanically delicious words like Galanthus and Ranunculus, which irritates the grumpy next-door neighbor, but which bloomed in my mind. Continue reading
Hi Everyone! And welcome to Donna Lambo-Weidner! Donna is here to celebrate her debut picture book, There Are No Dragons in this Book, which is slated to come out on March 5. There Are No Dragons in this Book has been hailed by School Library Journal as a “combination of story and mystery,” and by Kirkus Reviews as a “sweetly offbeat adventure.” Continue reading
I’m always fascinated by different perspectives on history. Sometimes that fascination leads me to nonfiction picture books, sometimes it leads me to books for older readers. Over the holidays, my curiosity about the Vietnam War led me to Amanda West Lewis’s Focus. Click. Wind., which released in August and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by The Globe & Mail. Continue reading