Children often learn about Indigenous cultures from history, but it’s just as important to know that Native American Indian cultures are still alive and strong in the modern-day, too. That’s why I ...

The author of more than 60 books for young readers and 2011’s “Picture Book Manifesto” that challenged creators and their publishers to energize the category, Barnett became the 2025–2026 national ...

Laurel Goodluck will read from and discuss “Stories Are the Heart of the World” at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. Picture books are often aimed at preliterate small ...

Behold, the picture book! The great and glorious literature hiding in humble places all around us: on the bottommost shelves of bookcases, in teetering stacks around kids’ bedrooms, inside plastic ...

Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen has become the first Canadian creator to receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, one of the world’s most prestigious distinctions in children’s ...

Lispector’s The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit, illustrated by Kammal João, and Almost True, illustrated by Carla Irusta, will hit shelves on April 1. Both are translated from the Portuguese by ...

In “Little Monk Writes Rain,” “Yulu’s Linen” and “Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise,” spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own. By Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S.

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.

VOVWORLD] - Picture books, with simple text and vivid illustrations, are gaining growing  attention from Vietnamese parents ...

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In a lot of ways, it's never been harder to convince kids to pick up a book over a phone or iPad. But worrying about declining literacy rates and reading test scores – that's adults' business. And Mac ...