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. 

And so, I went perusing the upcoming children’s book releases for 2018, looking for titles that piqued my interest and seemed educational and fun for my students.