Crushes of the Week: October 12-18, 2025

This week's crushes:

1. Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel and Jasu Hu (Calkins Creek, October 2025)
2. Soup's on Around the World by Denyse Waissbluth and Chelsea O'Byrne (Greystone Kids, October 2025)
3. Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey (NYRB Kids, October 2025)
4. Our Islands by Yuval Zommer (Thames & Hudson, October 2025)
5. Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace and Nancy Carpenter (Paula Wiseman Books, October 2025)
6. Call Me Gray by Andrew Larsen, Bells Larsen, and Tallulah Fontaine (Kids Can Press, October 2025)

     

Endpapers for the end of your week!

Down to the Last Detail: EVERY MONDAY MABEL

Loving this barcode placement! Like everything else about this book, it's impeccably designed!

Let's Talk Illustrators #388: Nat Cardozo

I am very pleased to present my interview with author-illustrator Nat Cardozo about her illustration and story processes for Origin, translated by Layla Benitez-James and Ian Farnes. Nat works in a format called pyrography, which I have never talked to anyone about before, so it was edifying and fascinating to hear about how her lush illustrations came to life. Enjoy!

Case(wrap) of the Mondays

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

Crushes of the Week: October 5-11, 2025

This week's crushes:

1. Year Round by Audrey Helen Weber (Neal Porter Books, October 2024)
2. Weiwei's Winter Solstice: A Dongzhì Story by Michelle Jing Chan (Bloomsbury Children's Books, October 2025)
3. He Was There from the Day We Moved In by Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey (NYRB Kids, October 2025)
4. The Secret World of Spiderwebs by Namasri Niumim and Jan Beccaloni (Thames & Hudson, September 2025)
5. Banana, Banana, Banana! by Sarah Finan (Post Wave, August 2025)
6. The Richest Cow in the World by Barroux (Kids Can Press, September 2025)
7. Who Needs the Dark?: The Many Ways Living Things Depend on Darkness by Laura Alary and Risa Hugo (Owlkids, September 2025)
8. Dedushka: Memories of My Grandpa and Ukraine by Katerina Spaeth (Paw Prints Publishing, September 2025)

       

Endpapers for the end of your week!