Sophie Blackall’s new picture book: Children weave ‘story rugs’ at NPR
Image copyright © Phoebe Wahl 2026 / Courtesy of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers There is a braiding craze in the second grade class. They’ll knit anything: shoelaces, hair, friendship bracelets, the tails of their toy ponies. But Noah has nothing to braid. So his teacher takes a whiteboard cloth and tears it into