If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. “Kiki’s story is about the pride everyone can have for their cultural roots," Leguizamo tells PEOPLE Scholastic Inc. Kiki and the Can ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Arnold Lobel, “There was an old pig with a pen,” final illustration for ‘The Book of Pigericks’ (1983), graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper, 17 7/8 x 15 7/ ...

Displaying the “rainbow of America,” the museum in Chadds Ford is exhibiting stories of nature and family through diverse cultural lenses. A detail from “In the home with twelve children were born and ...

Tbilisi’s art scene has a compelling reason to step out tonight. At 20:00, the Art Foundation Anagi opens “Nino Popkhadze ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

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 ...

These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the ...

In children's museums around the country, there are a lot of similar exhibits: the water exploration table, the kid-sized grocery store, the colorful jungle gym. But at The Rabbit hOle, an innovative ...