Welcome to this Thursday Edition of Tuesday Debut, Everyone! We’re having such a busy week! And learning so much from so many authors!

Congratulations to author Alayne K. Christian (and one of my critique partners) on the publication of her picture book, Turkey on the Run, i...

Welcome back to author Beth Anderson! Today we celebrate her newest picture book, The Patriots and the Pox: George Washington's Battle to Sa...

Since The Secret War launched back in April, taking readers to 1944 Dayton, Ohio, the months have been a blur. If you had told me then what...

A dog and a bug get thrown together—literally—and offer different points of view in this hilarious Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read.Percy and Speck see th...

Julie Phend Greetings, and welcome back from summer break! Today we interview GROGger Julie Phend about her recent book,  Sculptor and Spy: ...

Book Review of I WISH THAT YOU KNEW by Kathy Halsey Early this summer I participated in the  2026 Kidlit Zombie Week and won a 30-Minute...

Inside a year of answering "what should my kid read next?"

by the GROGgers   The GROG Blog team is taking the summer off - we'll return in late August. But before we pack our towels and sunscreen, ...

Private school shows how taxpayers will reduce tuition for millionnaires and invest a larger share of funding for the private school students than the 1.5 million students attending public schools.

Happy summer, groggers! I love going to my local library and checking out new picture books to see what’s being published and to have an a...

Congratulations to Deborah Holt Williams and illustrator Anna Doherty on their debut picture Nighty Night Dinos scheduled to release June ...

Enjoy the offerings of the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival a second time . . . The post HaikuLife 2026 Reprised: Preeti Sharma appeared first on The Haiku Foundation.

by Sue Heavenrich Today I’m chatting with award-winning author. Lindsay H. Metcalf. I was introduced to her writing through her nonfiction p...

The Weight of the Window Banners: Writing Grief and the WWII Home Front Hello, GROG readers! Todd here. I’ve been thinking lately about what...

School library budgets showed mixed gains and losses over the past year, with a range of outside factors adding to constraints.