Several years ago, I remember walking down a hallway seeing cute little crafts of a blue cat in a giant pair of shoes. I learned that his name was Pete and that kids loved him. A couple years later I somehow (I don't remember how) stumbled upon Pete the Cat: I Love My...

I found The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear a year or so ago when meandering through the bookshelves of my local thrift store. I remember that day being a particularly good book haul day, as I also found numerous classics by some of my...

“Picture books are two to three times as likely as parent-child conversations to include a word that isn’t among the 5,000 most common English words.”

They All Saw a Cat very quickly reminded me of Eric Carle, with its repetitive narrative that shares a simple day in the life of a cat and all the creatures it encounters. Even having read the dust jacket, it took several pages for me to fully grasp what concept Wenzel had set out to explore.