Memory, place, family: my conversation with Ann Dávila Cardinal on her YA/adult crossover novel, The Storyteller’s Death
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Zohran Walks New York by Millie von Platen--a love song to NYC and a tribute to Mamdani's journey.
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On celebrities who insist on writing children's books: www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/on-cele...

My conversation with Taraneh Matloob about her new picture book, Dear New Friend: www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...

Thoughts on One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Egyptian Canadian journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad.
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The backdrop to Paul Lynch's Prophet Song is an Ireland sliding into totalitarianism and civil war, a setting that feels uneasily like the present time in the United States.
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In Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests, botanist, biochemist, biologist, and poet Diana Beresford-Kroeger challenges us all to explore the deep connections that forests offer us. Blog post on Writing With a Broken Tusk
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More on how art can shape picture book text:
while I was looking at my own book, Look! Look! in this context, I thought I’d ask a couple of writers in my critique group (affectionately dubbed The Autodidacts) to weigh in: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Caroline Starr Rose.
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Thank you, Mima Tipper, for your guest post on your new novel, Kat's Greek Summer, on Writing With a Broken Tusk:
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Nicola Davies talks to me about albatrosses, people, and the sea in her picture book, Ride the Wind. www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...

On the Burning of Books: Kenneth Baker’s Illustrated History of Book Burning

The subtitle of Kenneth Baker’s gorgeously illustrated history of book burning carries a note of hope: How flames fail to destroy the written word.
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Really, America? The Curious Appeal of Dystopian Fiction. In our own dystopian time, reflections on The Children of Men by PD James.
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Kim Rogers talks to Jen Breach about I Am Osage, a picture book biography of Clarence Tinker, the first Native American US Major General. From Writing With a Broken Tusk.
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Sarah Aronson talks about Abzuglutely: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug, her marvellous picture book about an American hero. www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...

Are you kidding me? This is what the WH web site has become
? A Dear Leader web page. Sigh. Just evidence of the disintegration of democracy.