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Announcing Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids: 2024 Edition
It took all year but Evanston Public Library has released their 101 Great Books for Kids list for 2024. Are your favorites present? Come see!
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
While doing another Chris Van Allburg picture book may seem like a relative no-brainer around the Halloween season, maybe there's a reason we hadn't done this particular title before.
Pop Librarians: Top Portrayals in Books, Movies, and TV
Like or loathe these takes on the purveyors of information science, they’re memorable.
Where’s All the Short Fiction for Kids? A Talk with Renée Watson and Torrey Maldonado on These Much Needed Books
Why is so little short fiction for older readers published in America today? We talk with two middle grade expert authors on the topic and get some insights into why that might be.
Review of the Day: A Terrible Place for a Nest by Sara Levine, ill. Erika Meza
Hope is hard to write in a book. Hope is particularly hard to write in a picture book. Still, when someone gets it right, there’s nothing else like it. Maybe it’s true. Hope? It really is a thing with feathers.
The Tri-Interview Spectacular! Winkler! Oliver! Santat! It’s a Detective Duck Interview Extravaganza
Interviewing three people at once? It's a challenge but, by gum, not an impossibility! Watch! Amaze! Admire! As I talk with the creators of the Detective Duck series at once!
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Do Not Open by Brinton Turkle
"He's a chonky baby and he has a good heart." We talk orange cats (NOT Garfield) and a legitimately spooky book from Brinton Turkle "purveyor of terror" (or so I called him on this blog back in 2011).
Early Sleepy Lines: A Cover Reveal(ish) and Q&A About Wheetle by Cindy Derby
Caldecott Honor artist Cindy Derby joins us today to discuss her latest title, her process, the empowerment of creativity, and small bugs in blue berets.
Bringing Tikkun Olam Forward: A Q&A with Ruth Spiro About ONE SMALL SPARK
Are you ready to repair the world or maybe just improve it and make it right? Ruth Spiro drops by to talk about her latest, as well as the concept of tikkun olam in today's society.
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