Concluding Words Global children’s literature can be transformational. However, there is a danger in thinking that if teachers simply integrate these texts into their teaching, the books will ...

The picture book is children’s literature’s great formal contribution to literature as a whole. Yes, there have been great children’s novels, great children’s poetry and great children’s ...

Cover to Cover Children's Books has fostered a love of reading over generations. Check out the events and books they offer in ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

So much of children’s literature, particularly books for young audiences, relies on images to drive the narrative. In some cases, there are only images. In books for more mature children, with longer ...

Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.” “There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Skip to content ...

What is it that makes a great hero or heroine in children's literature? The books in our poll feature characters with super strength and magical powers, as well as ordinary children facing extra ...

Las Musas, a collective of writers, held its first celebration of Latinx children's literature in December in a two-day, virtual festival featuring more than 140 authors and illustrators.

With a charismatic host and charming book readings and reviews, the hit series “Reading Rainbow” stands as a beacon of ...

I had a contract with him for a children’s book about slavery, and though he’d approved the final draft, he was nervous. It didn’t matter that my manuscript did the opposite of sugarcoating ...

As children’s book author and illustrator Christopher Dean Meyers noted of children’s literature in a 2014 New York Times op-ed essay, “characters of color are limited to the townships of ...

In children’s books with adult heroes, children get to conspire alongside their elders. Defying the too-often adversarial relationship between adults and children in literature, such books ...