FOR THE LOVE OF PICTURE BOOKS
Mama Reads
An independent editorial project dedicated to picture books, visual storytelling, and the people who make them.
Through reviews, conversations, and reflections on publishing and illustration, I explore books as spaces for imagination, cultural exchange, and connection.
Notes on picture books, illustration, publishing, and the people who make them.
The Reading Journal
Conversations with authors, illustrators, and publishers shaping the world of children’s books.
Dialogues
Stories have the power to transport us and to paint the unimaginable. They also carry the potential to portray ways of life and worldviews, to open our hearts and minds to the diversity of human experience.
Picture books are timeless stories. They create connections, between images and words, reader and child, child and their deepest imagination.
I believe storytelling is both art and activism, and that a single picture book can affect the way we see ourselves in the world — and our sense of belonging in it.
Why Picture Books?
The Story of Mama Reads
Mama Reads grew from my longstanding relationship with children’s literature and the belief that picture books are an invitation to travel, through time and space; a life giving expression of what it means to be human; and a way for us to feel connected to one another & to the subtleties of our existence. I believe storytelling is both art and activism. And that a single picture book can affect the way we sees ourselves in the world- and our sense of belonging in it.
What began as a space for sharing books and reading with children has evolved into an independent editorial project — a place for reviews, conversations, and reflections on picture books, illustration, and the people who make them.
At its heart, Mama Reads remains what it has always been: a celebration of books, stories, and the connections they create.
FOLLOW ALONG
Books I’m reading, discovering, and revisiting.
