Broken! A Cover Reveal and Conversation with X. Fang

Earlier this week I posted my Spring Prediction Edition of the Newbery/Caldecott winners of 2026. Faithful readers may recall that I happened to mention that there was a certain X. Fang book that I wanted to include, but since I hadn’t yet revealed its cover, I felt unable to do so.

That ends today.

I will confess to you that on the sly, I shared a PDF of today’s book with some of my children’s librarians. The only accurate way to describe their reactions to it would be to compare them to...