You Know, for Kids

You'd think that at some point the New York Review Children's Collection would just run out of obscure, unknown and out-of-print ...

Sometimes I find myself wondering what it must have been like to read a true classic—kids' or adults' variety—right as it first ca...

As I grew older and out of children's chapter books, all those years ago, I kept only a handful of favorites on my bookshelf. I'm...

Christopher Healy's   The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom — which I was unable to resist posting about several weeks ago, so e...

As I've written before, it's always a thrill to discover a great new voice in kid lit. It's even more exciting when the new voi...

Since my sons are still just seven and three years old, my coverage of history books for kids doesn't usually get out of the picture-bo...

In their new chapter book, The Cheshire Cheese Cat , Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright put a couple of twists on the old "what if a...

Brian Selznick's 2007 children's book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret , followed the path of every author's fantasy: It got magni...

I wrote last year (have I really been doing this that long already?) about my premature attempt to read The Phantom Tollbooth with my then...

Well, it's time for me to rave about another New York Review Children's Collection release, as I do pretty much every time   one  ...

It's a wonderful feeling to share a favorite book from your own childhood with your kids, and relive the experience of that discovery. (...

I'm not much of a reader of modern fiction (and if you're wondering what this has to do with children's books, bear with me—I...

There are tons of tween and YA books out there nowadays that intertwine childhood rebellion and the supernatural. (I was going to suggest t...

Daniel Pinkwater 's Lizard Music isn't a new book by any stretch of the imagination—in fact, it wasn't all that new when I read ...

As I've mentioned before (endlessly, I know), my son Dash, now six, is a big fan of all things spooky and scary—ghosts, witches, vampire...

Any parent with boys of the age to be reading chapter books can hardly help becoming aware of a genre aimed squarely at their kids: gross-ou...

You can tell at a glance that the late Reinhold Jung’s Bambert's Book of Missing Stories  is something out of the ordinary for a childr...

Rosemary Wells ’s name is familiar to parents of young children from her picture books, particularly the hugely popular Max & Ruby seri...

I can’t say I was all that focused on children’s books before our first child was born in 2004. So my knowledge of the field since my own ch...

I always kept five or six of my favorite childhood chapter books on my shelves, all the way through adolescence and young adulthood and mar...