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Tricycle News
Apple cores
Bananas, bruised
Coffee grounds, with filters, used
Just add to the pot
and let it all rot
into Compost Stew!
Calling all cooks and gardeners! Here is a recipe that your home compost bin will love. Some of the ingredients—eggshells and grass clippings—may be familiar, while others—laundry lint and seaweed strands—not so much…yet!
Ashley Wolff’s colorful and collage illustrations echo [...]
Busy Birdies, the twelfth book in Tricycle Press’ popular Busy Book series, gives readers an up-close look at some colorful—and very busy—birdies.
Toddlers will be delighted to see these colorful birds performing actions that they can do, too— like jumping and dunking, scratching and catching, and a whole lot more.
JOHN SCHINDEL is busy working on the [...]
Big shirts
Small shirts
Look spiffy with
Short shirts
Long shirts—
Polka-dot boots!
In this light-hearted, spunky new book, children can “dress” a cheerful group of children with a mere turn of the page. But no matter what they’re wearing, they’ll find that all of the youngsters have on their favorite polka dot boots with every outfit, in every activity.
Ellen [...]
In their second book for Tricycle Press, Carmen Tafolla and Amy Córdova invite young readers to celebrate the fiesta—an important and lively Latino cultural tradition. From marching in a parade, to dancing and singing along with mariachis, these Fiesta Babies show toddlers everywhere how to party.
Fiesta Babies dance two by two
the cha-cha-cha…
and the choo-choo-choo!
Fiesta Babies [...]
February 8, 2010— On March 10, Maggie Gee, one of two Chinese American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) to serve in WWII, will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama.
Since fall, Gee has been busy promoting the award-winning book based on her story, Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee [...]
What Can You Do with a Paleta? by Carmen Tafolla is the thirteenth annual winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The award is given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To learn more about the Charlotte [...]
The Book That Eats People has struck again—this time on Kidoinfo, a new, hip guide for parents.
Parent reviewer Katy Killilea thinks this entertaining picture book is perfect for “kids who are ready to tread gently into horror stories and who enjoy toying with the concepts of “story” and “book” as in Jon Scieszka.”
To read her entire [...]
Smithsonian blogger Terry Hong is happy to see Susanne Gervay’s novel I Am Jack, which sheds light on the contagious nature of school bullying, is now available in the United States.
“’Did you know that thirty percent of children in American schools are either bullied, or bully other kids?’ asks award-winning Australian author Susanne Gervay in [...]
Author John Perry and illustrator Mark Fearing sit down with Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast review editor Jules Danielson to discuss the creation of their uproariously funny new picturebook, The Book That Eats People.
Popular children’s book blogger and New York Public Library Children’s Book librarian Elizabeth Bird raves about children’s books from Tricycle Press featuring same-sex families Mommy, Mama, and Me and Daddy, Papa, and Me, both by Heather Has Two Mommies author Lesléa Newman and illustrated by Carol Thompson.
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