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Winnie-the-Pooh Celebration Week: Day 4 – The Strange Case of Lottie the Otter a.k.a. The Bane of My Existence
Meet Lottie: My nemesis. For several years this sweet little pearl-wearing otter caused me nothing but headaches. Sit back, kids. I've a story to tell.
Winnie-the-Pooh Celebration Week: Day 3 – Statues and Lesser Known Histories
Today I pull two entirely different Pooh-related posts from my archives. One the one hand, a statue you can visit. On the other, a book you may have forgotten.
Winnie-the-Pooh Celebration Week: Day 2 – How a Bear Became a Book: A Q&A with Annette Bay Pimental and Faith Pray
After reading today's book I realized that it's showing kids that just because someone's name is on a book, they're just one of a large group of people, all working in tandem to make it the best possible literary experience. Naturally, questions abound.
Winnie-the-Pooh Celebration Week: Day 2 – How a Bear Became a Book: A Q&A with Annette Bay Pimentel and Faith Pray
After reading today's book I realized that it's showing kids that just because someone's name is on a book, they're just one of a large group of people, all working in tandem to make it the best possible literary experience. Naturally, questions abound.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Caldecott Contenders 2026
It's our annual consideration of three potential Caldecott winners. I guarantee you'll be shocked by some of these reactions.
Winnie-the-Pooh Celebration Week: Day 1 – The Complicated History of a Silly Old Bear
In celebration of Winnie-the-Pooh's 100 anniversary, we're taking the week to consider his legacy. Today's tales concern the complicated feelings Pooh's creators felt towards him when his success became extraordinary, as well as the later fights over where he'd make his permanent home.
Cover Reveal and Q&A with Shifa Safadi: Sisters Alone
"I wanted my readers to accept themselves, and speak their truths. And so I had to speak mine first." Shifa Safadi joins us today to talk about what it truly takes to write an honest book for kids and also to reveal the cover of this new middle grade work!
For Some Reason They Let me Interview Questlove & S.A. Cosby??? I’m Not Questioning It
"They aren’t the cookie-cutter tweens and tweens, or cookie-cutter Black characters, or cookie-cutter parts of cookie-cutter families. They are complicated and outsiders and more admirable and loveable for it."
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, ill. Bryan Collier
"CELEBRATE PERSON!" That's what I've always felt that this Doreen Cronin series (and their Big Face Book Jackets) says. But this book is, to my mind, the Martin Luther King book to beat all other Martin Luther King books. Agree?
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