When we visit the children’s room of the library, I gravitate toward the shelf of Caldecott winners: those inventively written and gorgeously illustrated books that I often remember from my own childhood. But ever since he’s had the power to move around independently, my son has toddled elsewhere. I know nothing about children’s book publishing, but there’s a class of […]

I have a two year old, and he has a ridiculous library of picture books. Even so, we go each week to the public library.  In February, the children’s section featured a display of books for Black History Month. There were picture books that discussed important events in African American history, including the horrifying history […]

Sometimes, when I’m reading aloud to my three-year-old, especially if it’s something I’ve read ten thousand times before, I’ll go the teeniest, tiniest bit into autopilot. So while I’m saying this— I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do […]