You Know, for Kids

I find that picture books generally have you at hello or they don't. For the most part, you can tell at a glance when you have a stando...

  Yes, once again I'm a sucker for a wordless picture book. And as usual, it's not just the sheer beauty of the art I'm enamo...

     The last of my trends relating to books I encountered last year builds on a discovery from my Cookie magazine years: Australian author...

With the latest book he’s chosen to obsess about at bedtime, our two-year-old, Griffin, seems to have an eye for design. In Lots of Dots, ...

Many picture books are what I call “concept” books, in which the author spins a tale around a specific childhood issue—say, anger over a se...

This post is basically an appreciation, since I suspect not too many parents these days are unaware of the Lane Smith oeuvre. Even I, tryin...

Some of my friends call them “loveys”—the especially beloved items that can calm young children when nothing else can. Traditionally, they’...

I think I must have read Lewis Carroll’s classics at some point in my early childhood, but I honestly don’t remember doing so. In many ways...

Normally, when   I write about a favorite book of one of my sons, it’s a children’s book—perhaps a picture book, perhaps a chapter book,...