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Lynn:  Most of you reading this blog are in the kid business:  librarians, teachers, parents, writers and publishers of books for kids.  And of course, we’ve ALL been kids.  So we all recognize that there are certain universal truths about being a kid like not wanting to go to bed or loathing green vegetables or [...]

Lynn:  When I looked back over our posts, I noticed that we seem to be drawn to bears – picture book bears anyway.  From bears with sniffles to baby panda bear kindergarten, we’ve got bears everywhere.  I’m not sure if that says something about us or about picture book illustrators but we’re adding to our [...]

Cindy: Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters have collected over sixty delightful poems to read at bedtime ranging from classics to contemporary and from silly to quietly lulling in Switching on the Moon (Candlewick 2010). G. Brian Karas’ gouache, acrylic and pencil illustrations are charming and the generous book size makes it easy for parent [...]

Lynn: The blizzard is piling up SO much snow here that any sane groundhog will stay curled up in his den!  Going back to a warm bed sounds SO enticing on this cold winter day but I have three energetic little boys here who slept over last night.  However, for all of us who are [...]