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“Oops! All Recs” Edition (opens the original)
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I had a dream that I went to a book fair and found AI-generated sequels to Snappsy. Snappsy the Alligator is an Alligator with More to Say! Or Snappsy the Alligator is Having a Fun Party Time! Things like that. The illustrations were emotionless slop. It was so distressing. As I was waking up, I thought, well, I guess I will write about this in my newsletter. Thankfully it wasn’t real, and I’m not going to write about it more than what I just did, but I’ve been thinking about this sp
On food in picture books (opens the original)
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Last month I got a call from the food editor at my local newspaper, Peggy Grodinsky, asking if I’d go to the farmer’s market with her and tell her what food I’d put in books. What a dream assignment!Peggy asked me why there’s so much food in picture books, and my answer is that kids are hungry all the time, and, for the most part, they don’t have control over when and what they eat. I would posit that a lot of them are thinking about food, all the
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