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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

Didactic books for beginning readers...well, just look at the phrase. Sounds like the kiss of death already, no? Yet in the right hands, boo...

It's long been a reliable trope of picture book to switch back and forth between the reality of a child's world and how that child...