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...

Okay, before I start, full disclosure: I make my living largely as a copy editor. And I've occasionally been accused by certain close ...

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...

I don't know if Komako Sakai's 2010 picture book  Mad at Mommy   will be considered a classic or not, but as far as we're ...

Illustrator Seymour Chwast is renowned for his long career of, well, illustrious commercial design work . Chwast's style, once you...

Philip C. Stead established himself as an author with a talent for channeling the charm of classic children's books last year with h...

Our three-but-almost-four-year-old, Griffin, is showing some trends in the picture books he takes most interest in these days: adventure, ...

It's one of those precious delights of parenthood to share a book we loved as kids ourselves to our own children, and to relive that...

I've said it before, but I keep finding new evidence: There's something special about Australian-born picture-book authors and ill...

OK, I know not every kid likes snakes. A lot of adults don't like snakes, not even a little bit. But our older son does, and so when—...

Many great picture books for young children are existential at root. (The works of the late Maurice Sendak are merely one notable example...

I do try, in children's books as in life, not to judge books by their covers. But it is a fact that with picture books, you often can ...

Griffin, our three-year-old, is having a little trouble with opposites; he transposes them. On a cold night, when he wants another blanket...

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

A quick post about a book I meant to write about back in March but that somehow got lost in the shuffle back then: Arthur's Dream Boa...

It's finally arrived: the picture book that has everything! This new arrival from author-illustrator Annette Simon not only features n...

I'd mostly seen chapter books thus far from the New York Review Children's Collection , those masters of reissuing forgotten class...

Spring is here (we'll ignore the fact that winter never really came to speak of, at least in the Northeast), and as always, with the sea...

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...