April 2 is International Children’s Book Day and Connecticut is or was home several authors and illustrators who are responsible for some of your favorites. One quite famous one was Maurice ...

And the delay didn’t slow her down; Aiken wrote hundreds of books for kids ... 13 - Roald Dahl Possibly the world’s most famous children’s author, known for never talking down to his ...

Maurice Sendak is best known as a children’s book author and illustrator, but his timeless works speak to adults, too. He’s the famous artist behind the classic 1963 children’s book “Where ...

Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books, 4-7) Soloy offers young readers a look into the childhood of one of the greats of children’s literature, Tove Jansson, whose most famous children’s books are the ...

Willems discusses how kids can use their imagination to understand their place. Award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems' creative spark elevated him to the big time among children's book ...

“Premised on the seeming paradox of warriors who went through often searing combat and who then wrote books for children” (p. 3), this anthology explores how their wartime experiences influenced and ...