Children's Books

Once upon a time, writing a children’s book was a task only undertaken by the most valiant of heroes—or, at the very…

I grew up reading fiction about Improper Princesses; novels with one foot in the folktale boom and the other in…

Weaving folk tales into Soviet children’s books, it turns out, was a fairly unconventional move in the 1930s.

The Association for Library Service to Children—part of the American Library Association—has decided to take Laura…

Lupita Nyong’o is working on a children’s book about a Kenyan girl’s difficulty accepting her dark skin.

On January 5, Scholastic released A Birthday Cake For George Washington, written by Ramin Ganeshram and illustrated…

Astrid Lindgren, the beloved author of the Pippi Longstocking series, died in 2002 at the age of 91. Thirteen years…

J.K. Rowling plans on writing another children’s book at some point in the future, so mark your invisible calendars.

Huh: Netflix wants to make an animated TV show out of Dr. Seuss’s famous Green Eggs and Ham. Somehow, they’re gonna…

A new collection of stories from Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss is set to hit shelves on Tuesday.

Brian Jeffs and Nathan Nephew, the two cofounders of Michigan Open Carry, have teamed up and written a new…

If you were a child in America in the past so many years, you probably read or at least can acknowledge the…

Since Rush Limbaugh can do very little that is not worthy of immediate and unstinting public ridicule, he has gone…

When a biracial family simply eating Cheerios results in the psychotic break of legions of racists, it's hard to…

The children's literature market has come a long way since (the ever wonderful and important) Pat the Bunny. These…

Sylvia Plath, the brilliant, tragic literary giant you were Most Likely to Be Obsessed With in high school, isn't…

As children, many of us encountered Richard Scarry's book, What Do People Do all Day? A classic kid's book, it uses…

Just like how Michael Jordan played baseball competently and then came back to play basketball superbly, J.K.…

Marcel The Shell is making the leap from overnight viral sensation to the subject of a new children's book, Marcel…

A new book by the author of Where the Wild Things Are has parents upset over its supposedly scary content. But are…