Know any children who won't go to bed? Well, sit them down in front of this video, in which the demonic lead vocalist of the legendary metal band GWAR reads this classic children's book to them. It won't help them sleep, but they should run into their bedrooms in pure terror immediately, and that's close enough.
If you were a child in America in the past so many years, you probably read or at least can acknowledge the existence of Norton Juster's great children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth. Though Juster may have written the book, it was equipped with equally important illustrations by Juster's longtime friend Jules…
Since Rush Limbaugh can do very little that is not worthy of immediate and unstinting public ridicule, he has gone ahead and written a children’s book about a suspiciously-named protagonist, a substitute teacher named “Rush Revere” who kidnaps some students in a time machine so he can teach them about the…
When a biracial family simply eating Cheerios results in the psychotic break of legions of racists, it's hard to ignore the lack of diversity in all sorts of media. The near invisibility of anyone other than white people is pervasive, but let's start at the very beginning — children's books.
The children's literature market has come a long way since (the ever wonderful and important) Pat the Bunny. These days, kid's tales tackle topics from adoption to egg donation — and they do it in giant books with adorable, full-color illustrations. Basically, if you're looking for something to explain to your daughter …
Sylvia Plath, the brilliant, tragic literary giant you were Most Likely to Be Obsessed With in high school, isn't all Ariel and The Bell Jar. In 1959, she wrote The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, a children's book about Max Nix, a boy who longs for an awesome all-purpose suit. Although all six of his older brothers find…
As children, many of us encountered Richard Scarry's book, What Do People Do all Day? A classic kid's book, it uses animals to represent the division of labor that exists in "Busytown." The book is an example of a brilliant piece of analysis by sociologist John Levi Martin (full text).
Just like how Michael Jordan played baseball competently and then came back to play basketball superbly, J.K. Rowling will be re-entering the children's fiction racket...at least for one book. The Casual Vacancy may have coasted to a big debut, selling 124,603 copies or ten times the next-highest debut, but J.K.…
Marcel The Shell is making the leap from overnight viral sensation to the subject of a new children's book, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me (on sale November 1). We spoke to Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp, authors of the book and creators of Marcel, and found out that there as so many more things…
A new book by the author of Where the Wild Things Are has parents upset over its supposedly scary content. But are moms and dads overestimating the dangers of a frightening read?
Dear People Who Keep Writing This Crap: This trend is dead, it's dead! Dear god; it's dead!
The American Library Association is creating an award for children's books that address LGBT themes. Cue the apocalypse!
On Friday the 1952 cover art for Charlotte's Web sold at auction for $155,000, more than five times its estimated value. The drawing by Garth Williams was purchased by an anonymous New York collector.
Not all print material lends itself naturally to the iPhone (I still like to read the Times the old-fashioned way: on my laptop screen). But one genre is a natural for mobile apps: Choose Your Own Adventure.
Does your five-year-old lack ambition and drive? Maybe she needs her very own self-help book, based on the Law of Attraction!
One Potato is a nifty blog devoted to rediscovering both forgotten and beloved children's books. Jay Bushara, the father of two sons, also solicits ideas from readers. A recent find? Sylvia Plath's picture book,The Bed Book.
Evangeline Lilly told Craig Ferguson that she plans to write children's books, a step that's become almost de rigueur for celebs. But not all celebs are on the bandwagon; we can think of more who should really jump aboard.
"The Country Bunny's message: plucky little girl bunnies who defy prejudice and believe in themselves can grow up to become fully actualized lady bunnies who raise smart, happy, kind children and do fulfilling work outside the warren." [NewYorker]
The Disney Channel is set to release Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars — Harriet's now "a blogger competing with a popular girl at school." This led us to imagine how other children's favorites might be updated for today's young MySpacerati:
