I Love You, Little Moose!” by Sandra Magsamen. A five-line poem about nature and all the things we love about it, with ...

When my generation was still in childhood, a ‘screen’ was something we used to keep flies out of the kitchen on a hot summer’s day. Now, it’s what our own children stare at for hours on end, faces ...

This fall, preschool-aged children in St. Helena, Calistoga and Angwin will experience the joy of opening a brand-new book of their very own, thanks to Preschool Books For All, a growing community ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways. By Laurel Snyder Whether you’re looking for a ...

PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

Ilana Kurshan is so obsessively determined a reader that when she was in labor with her first child she passed the time between contractions by immersing herself in a book. Naturally, she began ...

KING WILLIAM — Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that provides free books for children, is coming to King William County. QuickStart Children of Virginia recently announced that the ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

Comic books were originally created as entertainment primarily for young children. Some people don’t like to admit it, but it’s true. Let’s face it, a radioactive insect biting a teenage boy to give ...

Two Chicago area high school seniors have launched a mission to bring some comfort and joy to children as they tackle medical challenges — in the form of books. Sanvi Pandey and Sumedha Rao, both ...