At the top of my wish list this week is a new poster available from the ALA Store featuring art from Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World written by Cynthia Chin-Lee and illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy (Charlesbridge). (They’re selling a matching bookmark too.) I have ALWAYS loved, loved, loved the collage illustrations in this book, AND the women represented on its pages. The thought that I could have that art and some of those women not just in my bookcase but on my walls might be more temptation than I can bear. And just think how great that poster would look in my office corner, alongside my posters for Anne Frank written by Josephine Pool, illustrated by Angela Barrett (Knopf, 2005) and Frida written by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Ana Juan (Scholastic, 2002).

Lest you men reading this feel I’m giving you short shrift, note that I’ve also got a poster over my desk from Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie Christensen (Knopf, 2001) and Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).