You Know, for Kids

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. ...

In my spotty posting of late amid vacations and hurricanes, I've been focusing on children's nonfiction, slowly chipping away at my ...

It's a wonderful feeling to share a favorite book from your own childhood with your kids, and relive the experience of that discovery. (...

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 ...

This is a new book that’s also nostalgic for me: My parents bought me a copy of David Macaulay’s Cathedral   when I was eleven or so, and i...

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