“It was only when I realized the great joy of Mrs. Nobody and decided to write a wild, playful adventure about the most-fun friend that the narrative really came to life.’’ —Y.S. Lee What do dogs and cats and little boys and... Read More

The Boy Who Lost His Spark / Maggie O’FarrellDaniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, illustrator / Walker Books US / Softcover $9.99 (112pp) / 978-1-5362-4042-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Moving to a cottage in the countryside... Read More

“One of the subjects, Amanda, a blind autistic academic from Australia, initially approached me for a doctoral thesis she was writing about a neurodivergent poet. I found her story and abilities—she can, for example, picture her... Read More

The King and Nothing / Olivier Tallec / Milky Way Picture Books / Hardcover $21.99 (40pp) / 978-1-990252-38-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A king with everything goes in search of nothing in this picture book with a... Read More

“The regime Kim built is so repressive that, in the modern world, it might warrant a category of its own—below the average dictatorship.’’ —Fyodor Tertitskiy The word tyranny (tyrannos) comes down to us from ancient Greece in... Read More

Pencil / Hye-Eun Kim / TOON Books / Hardcover $18.99 (48pp) / 978-1-66266-553-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / This wordless picture book speaks volumes about conservation and the transformative power of art. Self-referential... Read More

An Interview with Kazu Haga, Author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse / At two of the darkest moments of the past century, you may recall that Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. practiced a... Read More

Does the thought of writing a soul-baring memoir cause you a flood of anxiety? Elissa Altman gets it, but as a teacher of memoir writing, she wants you to embrace the desire to write your story, if indeed that is your dream. “The... Read More