This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer book and much more ...
We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children. Big friendly giants, honey-loving bears, hungry caterpillars, iron men: these figures populate the vivid imaginary ...
Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a ...
Are you looking for good mermaid children’s books? Let me share my top 20 picks for adorable mermaid books for kids! This ...
We all want to instill a love of reading in our little ones, but constant trips to the bookshop aren't the way to do it. Rather than buying more, rotate and organize your children’s books so they’re ...
Most contemporary children’s literature can’t hold a candle to the classics.
Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...
When I first started compiling this year-end book list, my daughters were 3 years and just 6 months old, and my main duties were feeding and chasing them around. But now that they are 10 and 7, I have ...
In the pages of books illustrated and written for children, the sometimes-drab design of the real world transforms into a space of color and whimsy. There are phantom tollbooths, yellow brick roads, ...
Pam Muñoz Ryan’s “El Niño” combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales. By Bonnie Tsui Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The ...
After his mom died, Fry Bread author Kevin Maillard found himself wondering, "but where did she go?" So he wrote about it. His new kids' book is And They Walk On, illustrated by Rafael López.