Children’s books professor, Susannah Richards, and children’s book author and exhibit curator, Sara Levine, discuss picture book images and the artists who created them.
Susannah Richards is a professor who teaches literacy, literature, and teacher pedagogy courses. Every year she reads hundreds of books for youth and sometimes gets to help pick award winning books. She was on the 2013 John Newbery Committee, 2017 Geisel Award Committee, and chaired the 2025 Boston Globe Horn Book Award committee. When she is not reading or teaching teacher candidates, she likes to garden, cook, and sew. She will happily talk to anyone about books and has fondness for classic and contemporary picture books. Follow her on Instagram @SussingOutBooks.
Sara Levine an award-winning author of over a dozen books for children, a science educator and a veterinarian. Her titles, which include Bone by Bone, Flower Talk, Sensitive, The Animals Would Not Sleep!, and A Visit with the Birds, have won many awards including the Utah Beehive Book Award, Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, Cook Prize honor book for best STEM picture book, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Monarch Award Master List, Junior Library Guild selection, Animal Behavior Society Children’s Book Award, and Mathical Book Prize. She lives in Stony Creek, CT. Visit her at: saralevinebooks.com
