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A Podcast Experiment: SPEED ROUND w/ Marla Frazee, Dan Santat, Doug Salati, and Amina Luqman-Dawson.
Listen to our first-ever SPEED ROUND episode of The Yarn podcast!
Colby and I decided to try out a new idea: speed round-only episodes of the podcast. Today is the first one.
With a single photograph you get a truly great picture book pairing and the start of a beautiful collaboration. To life! To joy! To books!
Esther checks out the new Spider-Man manga from Viz, Spider-Man: Fake Red.
Author Robin Alvarez discusses mermaids and her YA novel, When Oceans Rise
Crilley talks about writing and illustrating a novel paying tribute to Taiwan more than 30 years after living there to teach English.
A lawsuit that might change the book-banning trajectory.
Even if the road ahead is scary, we’re optimistic for the future and grateful for how far we have come. TIME OUT, ultimately, is filled with that optimism.
A conversation (& cover reveal) with Sydney Smith about his upcoming picture book, DO YOU REMEMBER?
From critical interpretations of tall tales and Norse tales to environmentalism in India and dead houseplants, there's something for everyone in today's round-up.
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl team of Ryan North and Erica Henderson have reteamed for a new adventure in which a girl and her talking dog must try to save their post-apocalyptic world.
The seriousness of issues doesn’t mean there’s no room for joyfulness. On the contrary, by cultivating and celebrating joy and all that it encompasses—hope, unity, resiliency—we can more powerfully effect change than we ever thought possible.
Can I tell you it beautifully captures the delicate yearning that marks so much of adolescence? And will you know what I mean by that? Because it just does.
5 unexpectedly popular books in our K-3 school library this year.
Sarah Everett wrestles with an outsized and ambitious bit of plotting, all the while keeping her cards close to her chest. Here’s some advice: Hand this to kids that like their books with a bit of a twist. And do NOT skip to the ending and read that first.
Here's a look at some recently signed graphic novel deals—and what we can expect coming up!
I'm down to a handful of days of school left and cannot wait to start digging into the TBR Mountain Range currently in my office.
Ever Since and When Oceans Rise are about telling stories. More importantly, they’re about the power of telling your own story, even when it’s hard, even when society pushes back.
Today we're talking with Stephanie Lucianovic about viral tweets, wildfires, and the reality of those early COVID days captured so perfectly in her upcoming verse middle grade novel.
The LIA PARK series blends Korean art, history, landmarks, mythology, and language into an action-packed middle grade contemporary fantasy, creating an easily accessible entry point into Korean culture.
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