Happy Thursday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Today we have a picture book debut to spotlight, and I'm so pumped to feature author Jen Anyong! This is such a fun story, and Kaly absolutely killed the artwork. Congrats to the Harper team on this Halloween hit! For many folks, the summer heat creates a longing for fall. For something chilly and spooky. For me, after the last fireworks of July 4th, I wake up ready for autumn. Does anybody else feel that way? My social me

Happy Friday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Yesterday, my wife, Katherine, and I got to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary (or as we describe it, our family's 15th birthday). To make it fun for our kids, we all had cake to mark the occasion. New tradition! Katherine is and always has been (aside from my parents) my biggest fan and supporter of this little author thing I do. She gets to see me excited and frustrated by creative problems, watch me laugh at my own du

Happy Thursday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! I am writing to you from the crystaline figurative waters of summer break. Ahhhhhhh...this teacher is happy. I love my job and working with my students and team, but this was a challenging year. Not the time to get into the weeds of exactly why, but being an English teacher in the age of AI and launching a book and having a third child in the middle of the school year might have had something to do with it... But now summe