Next month is crossover month and this book works perfectly as a segue to tomorrow. And yes, Chopsticks is literally a picturebook intended for a YA audience though of course it isn’t described as […]
Welcome! You have just arrived at day three of The Book Wars’ “Five Days with Shaun Tan.” These past two days we have looked at two picture books with characters […]
Welcome to the third and final Game-Changing Princess Books post: Dangerously Ever After (2012) by Dashka Slater! (Part 1 on Princess Smartypants here, and part 2 on The Princess Who Had […]
“sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to” – Shaun Tan, The Red Tree This past semester I took a creative writing class for the first time since […]
Today we again depart from The Broke and the Bookish to list our favourite picturebooks featuring animal characters. Non-mythical animals, this week. Nafiza I’m not as well read picturebooks-wise as […]
“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so […]
Today I’m going to tickle your senses with the wonderful and unique The Black Book of Colours by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria. Originally published in Spanish, my copy has been translated by […]
Technically, not all of these are information picturebooks, but they do have communicating new information as a primary goal. Here they are: Steph: Well, it’s true! This makes me giggle uncontrollably […]
Meet the most wily jackal in the forest. Too lazy to hunt for food, he decides to trick his friend the crane, and soon gets carried away, gobbling up every […]
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail, illustrated by Ramsingh Urveti, designed by Jonathan Yamakami, and published by Tara Books is a bewitching picturebook which takes as its text […]
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