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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...

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...

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...

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...

We've recently reached yet another fascinating stage (aren't they all, really?) of parenting: Our three-year-old, Griffin, is starti...

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...

Most holiday-themed children's books, let's face it, aren't very good. Most are conceived and created mainly to be promoted at ...

Much like the book I last posted about , Zero the Hero  (about to be released later this month) is a math-lesson picture book that doesn...

Three-year-old Griffin is at the stage with books where I can hardly keep up with his current favorites—they literally seem to change every ...

A genre children's book that immediately sets itself apart is always pretty exciting—as I've written here before, there are plenty o...