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Drawing Lessons for Kids with Mo Willems

Published: Mar 27th, 2020

In the time of social distancing due to COVID-19, Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, Mo Willems, “explore[s] ways of writing and making” despite being stuck at home. He also answers children’s… Read More

When ‘Here’ Is Home, But ‘Here’ Keeps Changing — A Family Flees In ‘Story Boat’

Published: Mar 20th, 2020

When illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh first read the manuscript of Story Boat, she recognized the children in it immediately. Kheiriyeh’s family fled Iran after war broke out in 1980 — she remembers what… Read More

Kids Around The World Are Reading NPR’s Coronavirus Comic

Published: Mar 17th, 2020

How do you explain coronavirus to kids? Last week, NPR published a comic, written by Malaka Gharib, geared to children about the newly discovered virus. NPR also recently published the comic in Chinese. Since… Read More

Lotte Reiniger: Animation Before Disney

Published: Mar 12th, 2020

Remembering Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981), who created the first feature-length animation, years before Disney.

‘The Undefeated’ Wins Caldecott, And ‘New Kid’ Picks Up Newbery

Published: Feb 24th, 2020

It is a universally acknowledged truth that a curious reader in want of a good book needs only direct their footsteps (and questions) to the nearest librarian. Librarians, after all,… Read More