Case(wrap) of the Mondays

We've got a case(wrap) of the Mondays!

Crushes of the Week: October 23-29, 2022

This week's crushes:

1. Namaste Is a Greeting by Suma Subramaniam and Sandhya Prabhat (Candlewick Press, October 2022)
2. My Neighborhood by María José Ferrada and Ana Penyas and translated by Kit Maude (Tapioca Stories, October 2022)
3. Pebbles to the Sea by Marie-Andrée Arsenault and Dominique LeRoux and translated by Shelley Tanaka (Groundwood Books, October 2022)
4. Little Wild Animal Hugs by Hans Wilhelm and Kirwan Wednesday (Chronicle Books, October 2022)
5. Herbert on the Slide by Rilla Alexander (Hippo Park, October 2022)
6. Lost by Sam Usher (Templar Books, October 2022)
7. We Would Pretend by André Marois and Gérard DuBois (Milky Way Picture Books, October 2022)
8. Mr. Bear's World of Food by Virginie Aracil (Twirl, September 2022)
9. Fonchito and the Moon by Mario Vargas Llosa and Marta Chicote Juiz (Kales Press, October 2022)
10. Beautiful You, Beautiful Me by Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Salini Perera (Owlkids, October 2022)

         

Endpapers for the end of your week!

STILL THIS LOVE GOES ON

Still This Love Goes on, based on the song by Buffy Sainte-Marie and illustrated by Julie Flett, celebrates community and hopeful promise of seeing loved ones again soon.

Let's Talk Illustrators #228: Gökçe İrten

Turkish author-illustrator Gökçe İrten recently gave me some insight into her process for her latest picture book All of Us, and I'm excited to share those pearls of wisdom here today! I hope you love taking a deeper look at this sweet and uniquely-illustrated book with me!

Case(wrap) of the Mondays

We've got a case(wrap) of the Mondays!

Crushes of the Week: October 16-22, 2022

This week's crushes:

1. If I Had a Vampire Bat by Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow (Thames & Hudson, October 2022)
2. Octopuses Have Zero Bones: A Counting Book about Our Amazing World by Anne Richardson and Andrea Antinori (Tra Publishing, September 2022)
3. Teddy, Let's Go! by Michelle Nott and Nahid Kazemi (Enchanted Lion Books, September 2022)
4. Say Hello? by Sung Mi Kim and translated by Clare Richards (Berbay Publishing, October 2022)
5. The Fairy Atlas: Fairy Folk of the World by Anna Claybourne and Miren Asiain Lora (Laurence King, October 2022)
6. Boney by Cary Fagan and Dasha Tolstikova (Groundwood Books, October 2022)
7. The Box by Isabella Paglia and Paolo Prioetti and translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, October 2022)