(Photo by Gordon Trice) DAVID SMALL is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, a Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award for his picture books, which include Imogene’s Antlers, The Gardener, and So, You Want to Be President? Small’s most recent book, Stitches, is a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Mendon, Michigan. Visit davidsmallbooks.com. He recommends: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Blue Pills by Frederick Peeters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)

(Photo by Gordon Trice)

DAVID SMALL is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, a Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award for his picture books, which include Imogene’s Antlers, The Gardener, and So, You Want to Be President? Small’s most recent book, Stitches, is a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Mendon, Michigan. Visit davidsmallbooks.com. He recommends:

  • Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Blue Pills by Frederick Peeters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)