May 12, 2026

I'll be honest — I wasn't sure what to expect when I boarded a red eye last week and headed across the country for the PJ Library International Conferenc…

February 3, 2026

I grew up Jewish in Los Angeles, surrounded by books and by the voices of adults who believed that reading together mattered. Some of my earliest sensory memories are of my parents reading to me, and one story that always stuck out was Simms Taback’s Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. I can sti…