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Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith for Cynsations Illustrator April Chu Takes Us Behind the Art of Summoning the Phoenix from Lee & Low. Peek: "...gives readers an inside look into centuries-old Chinese musical instruments and the more recently formed...

By Debbie Ridpath Ohi for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations Naked! is a new picture book written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by yours truly, published by Simon & Schuster at the end of April 2014. This was my second picture book project...

See our complete list of March 2015 SLJ Stars. Argueta, Jorge. Salsa: Un Poema Para Cocinar/A Cooking Poem. tr. from Spanish by Elisa Amado. illus. by Duncan Tonatiuh. Bilingual ed. 32p. (Bilingual Cooking Poems). Groundwood. Mar. 2015. Tr $18.95....

HarperCollins sent me a big box of back-to-school picture books, several of them featuring characters that we already enjoy. Here are some highlights: Otter Goes to School by Sam Garton. When he learns from Otter Keeper what school is for, Otter decides...

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