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Showdown Symphony: The Backstory

The collaboration of four people, all with different degrees from the same university, led to this musical, poetic picture book. In 1935, Moscow Children’s Theatre Director Natalia Satz asked composer Sergei Prokofiev to write a composition that introduces children to the instruments of the orchestra. The “symphonic fairytale” he wrote debuted a year later and […]

Remarkable, Re-Readable Picture Books ~ And the Pursuit of Writing Them

Amy, Ben, and Charles love reading picture books. The only thing better than reading them, they think, would be writing them. And the only thing better than writing them would be knowing that kids, parents, and teachers are reading and enjoying them together. And so, in order to become authors of remarkable, re-readable picture books, […]