You Know, for Kids

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...

As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...

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

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...

It seems like a lot of icons have been leaving us lately— Levon Helm a couple of weeks ago, followed by the equally terrible news last we...

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...

The Good Ms. Padgett  is something of a throwback, in these days of ultrahip, genre-hopping children's music. Her second kids' CD, T...

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...

I completely missed Ted Hughes's 1968 children's fable The Iron Giant in my own childhood; I don't know if it had fallen out of...

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...

The categories of kids' entertainment (as of all entertainment, I guess) are blurring these days. I've covered audiobooks before, a...

I can't imagine many parents are unfamiliar with Munro Leaf's classic about the peace-loving bull; since coming out in the 1930s, it...

As parents we tend, when looking back at classic children's books, to concentrate on the ones we loved ourselves, rejoicing in the chanc...

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 ...

I remember when a friend introduced me to the world of Tintin. I can't remember exactly how old I was, probably about seven or eight, ...

The holiday season is upon us, and with it every parent's favorite pastime, family travel. Every generation thinks it has the worst of ...

A new audiobook/CD hybrid has entered our pantheon lately—a bit of a throwback-style recording, very much in the style of Peter and the Wolf...