(WIP stands for Work in Progress) Each school year, I create a Google document to compile the award-winning and starred children’s, middle-grade, and YA books into one document for easy access. Today, I added the Edgar and Eisner award winners. Tonight, the Lodestar award winners will be announced. In honor of that upcoming announcement, here […]
2024-2025 School Year Picture Books Sources are listed here. Chooch Helped illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers Randolph Caldecott Medal “Sissy has a mischievous 2-year-old brother called Chooch—an affectionate nickname based on the Cherokee word for boy or son. No matter what the usdi (baby) does, he “just gets away […]
by Amanda Montei There are dark thoughts in motherhood. When (rarely) acknowledged, we often (rightfully) seek to validate one set of these dark thoughts: intrusive ideas around harming our babies/children. Amanda Montei’s non-fiction book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control” wades into another set of dark thoughts — the connection between all-consuming motherhood and […]
by Yantra Bertelli, Sarah Talbot, Jennifer Silverman With their book of collected essays, “My Baby Rides the Short Bus,” Bertelli, Talbot, and Silverman have pulled together an invaluable set of voices on parenthood. The premise of this collection is to give voice to non-mainstream parents (queer, POC, disabled) who are parenting non-mainstream children. The result […]
by Sherrie Eldridge
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