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Taking Play and Whimsy Very Seriously: Meet the Smushkins and Claudia Rueda
From house hunting to simple picture books to creating large groups of characters, Claudia details the process that led to her latest series (and why it's so delightful).
Publisher Preview: Norton Young Readers (Spring 2026)
Take a trip into the future, where the new crop of Norton books tackle protests, codes, swallows, and the environment. Check out the upcoming titles here today!
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Alligator Arrived with Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast by Crescent Dragonwagon, ill. Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey
"This is the episode of Kate being annoyed by the silliest of things." In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday we tackle a 1987 publication, complete with kohlrabi.
“… to tell the truth they must create an artifice.” We Discuss Memoirs, Comics, and I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This with Eugene Yelchin
"The mode of operation in writing about one’s past is searching for the hidden patterns. They are there in the first place but only the hindsight examination avails them to you." Eugene Yelchin recounts his teenaged years in Russia and we discuss what doing that entails.
Icon: A 25th Anniversary of Ian Falconer’s OLIVIA and a Talk with Caitlyn Dlouhy and Justin Chanda
Bold and brassy (but never bratty) the iconic pig reaches her 25th year, and we've her editor and publisher on hand for a quick Q&A.
Pilgrim Codex: Let’s Talk Migration, Translation, and Why This Book is Far Too Timely with Vivian Mansour and Carlos Rodríguez Cortez
"We have all made some kind of pilgrimage in our lives; we are all in transit, searching for the best path to a life full of opportunities and shared happiness." A talk with the author and the translator of a seminal work.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
Is this our first self-published picture book that got picked up by a major publisher later? Perhaps. It's the certainly the first recommended by a Kardashian.
Palestinian. American. Comedian. Disabled. A Talk with Seema Yasmin About Maysoon Zayid: The Girl Who Can Can
How does an able-bodied person write about a person with disabilities and do it without their own assumptions and discomfort getting in the way? A talk with the author of an incredible new chapter book bio.
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