My friend Hope, recently won the Coretta Scott King Honor award for her book Keeping the Night Watch . An incredible follow up of her first ...

This was the shelf at the Union Square Barnes and Noble last week. The pink book in the middle at the top is Bella and Bean . Two shelves do...

I haven't even remotely recovered from Hugging Hour being out, and BAM, out comes Bella and Bean , written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich . As s...

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Sometimes one, sometimes the other. I recently bought a sewing machine. When I finally set it up and gathered some old left-over pieces of f...

Another children's book conference came and went. As always, I'm inspired. Inspired and excited that I am part of this industry. The...

Why are there so few well designed book covers to be found? Even if the illustration is good, the placement of the title, font, color, and o...

I walked into a book store in NY and there it was, face-out, on the shelf. I had been waiting about this moment for a long time. But this mo...

Today is the day, even though a couple of friends spotted and bought it last night at a local bookstore. (That was very nice of them.) Now, ...

I just came across a picture book I had never seen before, (even though it's been out for more than a year.)  Little Mouse's Big Bo...