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5 backlist picture books I discovered and loved in 2025
(and you might, too)
Jan 11
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2025 Picture Book Honorable Mentions
14 more picture books I loved in 2025
Jan 4
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My favorite kidlit of 2025
26 books for kids that blew me away this year
Dec 29, 2025
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My epiphany about picture books that make electric read-alouds
Jun 22, 2025
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Kids + genre in the library
Oct 19, 2025
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New school year // new read aloud ideas
Aug 9, 2024
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My favorite picture books of 2024
Dec 22, 2024
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On kid taste, audience context, and children's publishing right now
Mar 14, 2025
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Let the kids get weird: a unit plan
Feb 15, 2025
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My favorite grown-up reads of 2025
Featuring seven 2025 releases and three backlist books I loved
Dec 21, 2025
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Read Alouds Ranked, Ranked
Ranking my monthly favorites from the past year
Dec 14, 2025
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Kidlit Supermarket Sweep
40+ books I added to my TBR after combing through all the end-of-year kidlit lists
Dec 7, 2025
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Chrissie Writes, Vol. 35
Featuring 3 nonfiction picture books to read aloud and 3 great graphic novels
Dec 1, 2025
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Read Alouds, Ranked - No. 13
Six nonfiction read-alouds that hit every time (plus some Thanksgiving recipes I love)
Nov 23, 2025
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Good books only for children
On Penelope Lively's Booker keynote, that W.H. Auden quote, and the time the internet tried to cancel me for saying children's books are for children
Nov 17, 2025
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Fall Reading Raves
The grown-up books I've been reading and loving this fall
Nov 9, 2025
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