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Kate Teves Children's Book Writer & Illustrator
It’s not very often that you can experience art without any preconceptions from awards or reviews. I experienced the pure joy of Doug Salati’s “Hot Dog” without having any idea that it had won the 2023 Caldecott Medal.
To read Jean Jullien’s illustrated children’s book of “Imagine” is to achieve the kind of transcendent, dismantled experience that John Lennon depicted in his iconic song.
Sometimes I look at author-illustrator Sophie Blackhall’s farm in upstate New York, and I wonder if it’s the life I was supposed to have.
Will kids read about adults? The answer is: no.This week I was told that my middle grade novel is unpublishable because children will not read about adults.
Michael Rosen’s picture book explores grief in a way few books for adults seem to match.
What are “adult themes” and how soon is too soon to expose young readers to them? This is a question the literary world asked when David Small’s graphic memoir Stitches was nominated for the National Book Award in the Young People’s Literature category.
Adrian Tomine’s work is reminiscent of 19th century Japanese woodblocks.
The movie Up was brutally hard for me to see, but it contained an especially meaningful lesson.
Thunder & Lightning will make you wish all science was taught by artists.
“The Party” by Jamaica Kincaid is one of the most unusual and most powerful children’s books I have read in a long time. But what is it about?