Irena's Jars of Secrets is a picture book biography of Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker in Poland during World War II who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. In this BookTalk, author Marcia...

It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw is the picture book biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memori...

"My father was a storyteller," says writer Patricia Smith, "a real Delta sage who interpreted everyday events with humor, drama, pathos, and a simple lyricism that ...