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In this engaging graphic memoir, protagonist Misty is a fierce competitor who loves football: it combines strategy, teamwork, and tac...

Cover Reveal for Book Bonding: Building Connections Through Family Reading by Megan Dowd Lambert

Tola, in spite of her young age and diminutive stature, accomplishes big things in this sequel to Too Small Tola ...

Adrienne L. Pettinelli follows the emotional arc in Doug Salatis Hot Dog, one of the most expressive and empathetic picture books of the year — and one the Caldecott committee is surely spending time with.

As the seasons pass, young Hilda visits elderly witch Hazel. In the spring, she helps Hazel sweep her front porch; in summer, they air the music room; in fall, they clean cobwebs in Hazel’s parlor; and in winter, Hilda tidies Hazel’s room as Hazel is bedridden. Hazel reanimates past memories with her broomstick, and Hilda watches in wonder.

Familiar songs, finger puppets and holes, counting, and flaps galore make these eleven new Halloween board books extra-entertaining for their toddler and preschooler audience.

In You Are Life, illustrated by Hannah Li, Minneapolis poet-author Bao Phi (winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor for A Different Pond) addresses the reader directly to celebrate who you are. Bao and I talk below about poetry, picture books, and how and where the two can meet.

In addition to a wealth of 2022 picture books illustrated by established Black artists, we are seeing a trend of Black artists making significant picture book debuts this year. Today, meet Carl Joe Williams, illustrator of Mardi Gras Almost Didnt Come This Year.

“Deep in the Kunlun Hills, there lived a mystical deer,” the Nine Color Deer, so called because of the varied colors in her fur. One day she saves a drowning man (by leaping from wave to wave and walking on water), and in return asks only that he not tell anyone where she is.

The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book is presented to author Jason Reynolds and illustrator Jason Griffin for Aint Burned All the Bright published by Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.