I’m usually opposed to both book destruction and the use of clichés but exceptions may have to be made for the new picture book from the Minnesota Historical Society, “How to Draw a Tree.” The book is ...

Dan Santat and the late Jerry Pinkney draw from life (literally) in their memoirs for young readers. By David Small According to an apocryphal story, the 19th-century French illustrator Gustave Doré ...