Review of the Day: Afterward, Everything Was Different by Rafael Yockteng, ill. Jairo Buitrago

Afterward, Everything Was Different
By Rafael Yockteng
Illustrated by Jairo Buitrago
Translated by Elisa Amado
Aldana Libros (an imprint of Greystone Kids)
$22.95
ISBN: 978-1-77840-060-5
On shelves May 8th

Maybe there was a moment during the early days of the pandemic when a whole slew of picture book creators thought to themselves, “Boy. Things are rough now. When has it been rougher than this? I know! The Pleistocene!” How else to explain the slew of books for kids I’m seeing out right now that ...