Minh is the author of Let Me Finish! a debut picture book that will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2016. By day he works in early childhood policy and in 2010 helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History (the only place you can both support youth creative writing and get your daily supply of unicorn tears). He also writes about children’s lit at Bottom Shelf Books and occasionally for the Huffington Post and others. Follow him on Twitter @bottomshelfbks.
A few weeks ago, half asleep and in search of coffee, I stumbled upon Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of ...
“Hey, I’m having a really great time with you. Let’s capture the moment by taking a se… cond to read ...
Amidst the flurry of end-of-year lists, I started getting to get nostalgic for all the great books that we’d be leaving ...
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
This October, the big screen adaptation of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day will hit a ...
The often overlooked truth about children’s books is that they are written by… adults. As in, real, live human adults ...
For some reason, whenever I hear that someone writes “great sentences,” my ears always perk up. Which is funny because, if ...
Book Expo America, particularly BookCon, has been getting a lot of heat recently for its selection of speakers. It started ...
Yesterday, a curious little character named Beekle introduced himself to readers all over the world. And in my humble opinion, this marshmallowy ...
We’re heading into another wedding season, which means a lot of you are in the thick of planning for the ...
With February all abuzz with the Valentine’s Day release of House of Cards, there was a lot of talk about the ...
This past year was the 15th anniversary of McSweeney’s, the publishing force that Slate called “the first bona fide literary ...
First of all, I want to make one thing clear: this is NOT a criticism of the Caldecott committee. Narrowing ...
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
I didn’t have the privilege of attending the National Book Awards, but from what I could gather–from Maya Angelou’s transcendent ...
