Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover: Candlewick Sparks

Visions of one day discussing books with your kids may set your literary heart aflutter—but actually watching them learn to read, word by painful word? Maybe not so much. Early readers feature classic sight words, simple plots, and easy-t0-digest word counts, which makes them perfect for kids that need to read them over and over […]

Perennial favorite subjects for children’s books include dinosaurs, vehicles, talking animals, and robots. Why do robots make the cut? Maybe in part because when a parent reads aloud in a robot voice, laughter is practically guaranteed, but more importantly, the robot experience often serves as a delightful metaphor for the kid experience. Any kid whose […]

If your kids have robots-on-the-brain (in other words, they can’t stop, won’t stop talking about and building robots) then these books are for you. They will buy you countless seconds until the next robot-related question comes at you, like, “What if I built a robot to clean my room?” But seriously, these robot-themed easy reader, […]

Cece Bell: Can you describe how we first became connected? Jamie Michalak: I’d love to. It was about 16 years ago (holy cow!) and I was an editor at Candlewick Press. Back then, as you remember, editors still received most of their submissions via snail mail and we had slush piles, which were these overflowing […]