Mexikid (Dial, 2023)—Pedro Martín’s middle grade graphic memoir—features hilarity, family superhero stories, relatable sibling interactions, and an inspired exploration of cultural identity. The story, at times both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant, details the epic road trip that Martín’s childhood family took from California to Mexico and back. The book has also garnered a [...]

Epic historical events inspired some of Peter Sís’s most celebrated books, including titles such as Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued (Norton, 2021) and the Caldecott Honor Book The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007). But Sís’s latest picture book, In Praise of Mystery (Norton, 2024), is linked to an [...]

Books can serve as mirrors for readers who are looking for authentic reflections of their own experiences. In Good Different (Scholastic, 2023)—Meg Eden Kuyatt’s debut novel-in-verse—the book also served as a mirror for the author, who learned while writing the story that she is on the autism spectrum just as her character Selah discovers the same thing. Kuyatt’s genuine, [...]