This article was authored by Publisher Spotlight intern Hannah Webster. For teachers and caregivers who want to strengthen cultural awareness and family bonds, this delicious collection of picture books focuses on the universal joy of cooking together. These stories celebrate diverse family traditions and encourage young readers to explore the kitchen as a space for […]
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Culture and tradition are part and parcel of every person’s identity and yet many of us—perhaps especially in the United States—tend to see the identities of those around us as flattened into tropes. Instead of ignoring the nuances that encompass unforced and forced migrations, developments in social and political surroundings, and even availability of food
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Are you wanting to add some light to your bookshelf? Look to Spanish publisher Cuento de LuzI True to its name, which translates to “Tale of Light” in English, Cuento de Luz publishes stories for youth that illuminate important issues while remaining uplifting and hopeful. Founded in 2007 by Ana Eulate, Cuento de Luz aims
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Introducing children to participating in and observing the natural world holds well-acknowledged merit—as well as rich offerings in current children’s books. No matter how urban a child’s environment may be, there are almost always snatches of nature available: the sky and weather; a vendor selling fruit that was planted and grown to be eaten and
You may be familiar with this tagline: “For the best books, look for the bear.” This fall, the bear from down under is making its way to the U.S. market! Walker Books Australia, based in Sydney, has been home to beautiful, high-quality picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for more than thirty years. Part of the
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Picture book illustrators use so many different media to create engaging—and often revealing—elements for the pages children examine during read-aloud times. Sometimes the illustrator makes use of a tool other than a brush, a pencil, pen, or cut paper. Sometimes, we see picture books—in a range of age interests from board books to informational books
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One of the developmental steps in reading proficiency is learning how to predict while suspending certainty sufficiently to discover what actually occurs in the text. If the author had only one path to take and we could predict it with total accuracy, reading as recreation—which is how we get enough practice to make reading a
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When we think about books, it is usually written text that comes to mind. Reading is about words, right? However, in children’s picture book literature, visual storytelling plays an equal role in conveying a book’s message. In celebration of the visual language of children’s books, we highlight the work of author and illustrator Joaquín Camp.
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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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