Inspired by a deep love of storytelling and illustration, and fostered by reading with my kids, @kidsbookrecs is a recommendation account for our favorite picture book discoveries.

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Wildflowers—yes, inspired by a line in the Tom Petty song—is the third in a trilogy of graphic novels for young kids by the celebrated Argentine comic artist #Liniers. Made as a trilogy in ode to his three young daughters, he describes, &
My mom was a humongous fan of William Steig and there was no children’s book creator whose books we consumed with more ferocity. But I didn’t discover Rotten Island until in my late twenties, a parable-like story about an island of terrib
Avi, the pen name of the prolific writer of YA and children’s lit, who has authored some 80 or so books, first wrote this koan-like tale in the early 70s, before it was republished to more widespread recognition in the early 2000s. In it, a sna
If there is a single children’s book that may just be my spirit book, Sato the Rabbit would be a top contender. Translated from Japanese, Sato, a boy-wearing-a-rabbit-costume, explores the beautiful world all around us: the sky, the ocean, a wa
Pokko and her parents live in a mushroom 🍄 in the forest, already a premise thrilling to my kids. Her parents give her a drum, then regret it as their “biggest mistake.” The noise! The disruption! Better not create havoc in the forest. S
What if you were laying in bed, and a portal opened up, and took you to a world of upside-down staircases, colorful balls, kids of all sizes/shapes/abilities playing all types of games? What if you could walk upside down, and your cat could too? In t
In The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, the late Karla Kuskin takes methodical inventory of the preparations of the 105 members of this musical ensemble as they bathe, eat their meals, get dressed in their own variation of black from head to toe, and colle
Colette is new to the Mile End neighborhood and her parents still won’t get her a pet. So she heads outside, and runs into some neighbor kids, and spontaneously tells them she has lost her pet parakeet. They are eager to help find her, and as t
The cover of another David Wiesner book, Tuesday, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1991, is seared into my childhood memory with its glowing clock tower. Wiesner would go onto win two other Caldecott medals, including one for illustrating Sector 7 in
I struggled to select just one of @aramkimart’s three picture books in the Yoomi, Friends and Family series. In Let’s Go to Taekwondo, Yoomi, a young (Korean) cat, goes to taekwondo but is intimidated when it comes her turn to break a boa
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Tell Me What You're Reading #8: Conversation with Youngna Park, Executive Director of Parenting at The New York Times - Children's Books; what to read to your kids!

Bookworms in the Wild / Oct 2018

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