Author name: CMoorehead

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Kintsugi: The Art of Repair

The Japanese art of kintsugi has been drifting increasingly into the imaginations and hearts of people around the world.  In the United States, Europe, and beyond, kintsugi has been the stuff of art discussions, social media videos—and children’s books. Here in our Publisher Spotlight corner, we have recently represented two beautiful children’s books exploring kintsugi: […]

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Spotlight on Ruby Tuesday Books

Who, you may ask, would be excited to capture a photograph of a snail mid-poo?  Ruth Owen, that’s who. What’s more, she built a snail sanctuary in her backyard in order to capture close-up and personal photos of snails going about their daily lives, poo and all. You see snails—and just about every other zoological,

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Spotlight on Transit Children’s Editions

Transit Books, a Berkeley, California, nonprofit publisher of international and American books for adults since 2013, has made it their mission to discover and promote stories that cross borders and connect communities around the world.  Now, Transit brings this same commitment—and all the delights that come with it—to children’s books with their Transit Children’s Editions

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Spotlight on Tapioca Stories

Floating amid the wide and wonderful ocean of children’s books are special treasures: international books.  When we look at tales from beyond our borders, our eyes and hearts open to new perspectives and deeper truths. In the case of Yael Berstein–the one-woman-powerhouse behind Tapioca Stories—we also find out-of-the-box surprises that dazzle and delight. Tapioca Stories

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Stories, Legends, and Myths from Inuit Publisher Inhabit Media

The Inuit people live in our world’s northernmost permanently inhabited locale. Inuit Nunavut, the Inuit homeland, is also Canada’s largest territory, encompassing 36 percent of Canada’s landmass and 50 percent of Canada’s coastline.  It is in this rich, Arctic expanse that the Inuit people—numbering over 160,000 across Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland—live, love, and work

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Canine Companions: Rescue Dogs and Beyond

If you’ve never met a rescue animal—and a rescue dog in particular—then you might not know that they are the four-legged definitions of gratitude and resilience. Some rescue dogs may come from previous loving homes where life circumstances forced their humans to re-home them. But just as many—and, sadly, probably many, many more—come from pasts

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Fairy Tales, Folktales, Oh, My!

But wait, there’s a difference?! OF COURSE I would know they’re all different, right?  I’m a whole adult human, a teacher, a mother, a writer.   I’ve read thousands of fairy tales and folktales.  Surely SURELY I know the difference! Well, when faced with trying to articulate which is which and what is why off the

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Tales in Tune:  Music and Picture Books

Fusing the delights of music and story is a powerful way to teach basic concepts as well as explore deeper ideas and emotions.  Over my nearly 30 years of teaching young children, I’ve set a LOT of knowledge to simple tunes: the names of continents, oceans, countries and states, math concepts, simplified steps of the

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Seeing Migration Experiences in Recent Picture Books

For most of humanity’s existence on Earth, people have migrated from one place to another as individuals, as family groups, and as entire cultures. Today’s humans can find themselves migrating out of need—escaping war, poverty, and danger to seek a place to call home–or moving in search of better jobs, or to help care for

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