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I love reading David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis. Recently his essay on Tracy Austin struck a note.

“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?

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.

When the dachshund sees the books in the bookstore window, he wants to know: “How much is that bookie in the window?”

A trip to Costco turns into guaranteed delirium.

When I wear red lipstick I think I look like a breezy French girl riding her bicycle around the streets of Paris. The reality is something very, very different.

Some of my latest illustrations for the holidays.

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.

Meet the illustrator whose thoughtful interview will take you back to a place you left long ago.

I wrote a letter about letters to Tom Hanks—and he wrote back.

Tom Hanks sent me a second letter about typewriters.