One of our key missions here at ReadAloudRevival is to help you choose great books for your kids.

And choosing really good books consistently is something of an art form.

Here's one thing that will make you better at choosing great books.

Learning to recognize a really good author or illustrator's name.

This little trick will take you far.

That way, when you're at the library in a bookshop,

scrounging through a pile of books at a garage sale or a used book sale,

you'll notice a book you don't recognize, but a name that you do.

And that is a key skill to learning how to recognize a gem when you see it in the wild.

There are certain authors and illustrators you should just snap up whenever you see books by them.

And the more familiar you are with these giants of wonderful children's books,

the better your home library will fare.

So today, I want to give a name to you to learn to recognize.

When you see this woman's name on a book, you should read it, no matter what it is.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Welcome to this special edition of The ReadAloudRevival.

Imagine this.

You're with a group of happy people at a big barn in the little town of Damras, God, a main.

It's a summer evening.

The stars are twinkling and the light of the moon reflects off the Damras, God, a river.

People are chatting, moving about, giving hugs, pan shakes,

and filling their plates with lobster and corn on the cob, green salad, and heaps of blueberry cobbler.

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