You Know, for Kids

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...

Once again I turn to Elizabeth, my 13-year-old colleague, for some of her favorite new tween and young-adult novels of the last year or so. ...

This is the second in a series of posts I began last fall ; once again, I'm relying heavily on my blog's only assistant editor, 13-y...

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...

Not for the first time, I’m stretching the definition of new here a bit. The first entry in this two-book series by M. T. Anderson came out ...

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

To a parent of infants or toddlers, reviewing picture books comes pretty naturally. They’re short, often illustration-driven, and precisely...

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to sing the praises of the New York Review Children’s Collection, which continues to find and reiss...

Daniel Pinkwater has been writing children’s books for a long time. Long enough, in fact, that I remember reading some of them back in grad...