If there is one thing to take away this Dementia Action Week (20 – 26 May) let it be that dementia is an issue that will eventually touch us all in one way or another. The Alzheimer’s Society’s figures show that two fifths of us currently know someone with dementia. By 2051, two million people in […]
Mira’s Curly Hair Blog Tour: Setting hair straight with Maryam Al Serkel
As the KidLit space begins to wake up to issues of representation and embrace own-story narratives, hair has steadily become a site for discussions around race, identity, and otherness in children’s picture books. Now, the connection between hair and identity is no surprise to black and brown communities. It is also well discussed in Black […]
Molly’s Moon Mission Blog Tour: Dark side of the water cooler
Today we are captaining the ship of Molly’s Moon Mission Blog Tour! As such, we think it is only right to boldly go where no blog has gone before and to explore strange new worlds! OK. Actually, we’re exploring Duncan Beedie’s studio. In Bristol. But he’s promised to wear his space suit! Have you or […]
Lollies Blog Tour 2018: Rachel Bright makes squistory!
The Lollies are back and this year’s shortlist is nothing to laugh at! Wait. Let’s try that again. The Lollies are back and the books on this year’s shortlist are more uproarious than ever! That’s better. Moving on. Two in a Tepee is delighted to be championing Rachel Bright and Jim Field’s book The Squirrels Who […]
Jamia Wilson on Young, Gifted, and Black, the book that’s really a mirror
In Young, Gifted, and Black we are introduced to fifty-two icons of colour from the past and present. It is a celebration of Black culture — curated by Jamia Wilson (and lovingly brought to life by the exciting illustrations of Andrea Pippins) to include a wide spectrum of achievements in science, the arts, politics, and […]
Yuval Zommer reveals his five favourite fishy facts from The Big Book Of The Blue!
True story. The school run started this morning with a litany of questions posed from the back seat of the car about snails and slugs. It’s a damp, grey day in London, you see, and on the pavement outside our house, the morning commute was being acted out in miniature by a seemingly endless procession […]
BLOG TOUR: Luna and the Moon Rabbit The Power of Picture Books with…Camille Whitcher
Luna was sitting with her Grandma gazing up at the bright shining moon. “Look up there, Luna,” said Grandma pointing up, “when the moon is full and the sky is clear, you can see him.” “See who?” asked Luna “Why, the Moon Rabbit, of course!” replied Grandma… Inspired by stories told by her Japanese grandmother, […]
Food For Thought: The Inspiration Behind The Last Chip by Duncan Beedie
We have been lucky enough to be included in the week-long Blog Tour celebrating and illuminating Duncan Beedie’s latest book, The Last Chip. In keeping with Duncan’s other books (The Bear Who Stared and The Lumberjack’s Beard), The Last Chip has an important underlying message — this time about poverty, hunger and living rough. It’s the […]
Dinosaurium Blog Tour: A Conversation with Chris Wormell (and a rifle through his sketchbook!)
Dinosaurium is the best museum you’ve ever been to minus the queue, stale air and cultural imperialism. It offers the opportunity to service the needs that museums exist to sate: the desire to transcend the everyday, to witness that which is greater than ourselves, and to understand our humanity in the context of a […]
Meet Knights Of — the new children’s publisher seeking the holy grail of truly diverse book-making
At the beginning of this year, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center released their annual report on the number of children’s books published which were by and/or about people of colour. The good news was that last year saw a record number of diverse books published (a still low 28%, mind you). The bad news was that […]