You Know, for Kids

There were two movie adaptations in the latter part of 2011 that our family was particularly excited about. The first, Hugo, based on Brian...

I'd say 2011 was a great year for kids' music, but really every year has been that recently, thanks to the explosion of the kindie m...

Just to explain the sudden complete lack of posting (as opposed to the slow posting of the last couple of months): I wanted to be sure the e...

My seven-year-old, Dash, spent a little less of his time reading graphic novels in 2011 than he had in 2010 (and a little more trying to cre...

 We have two young boys, so trains have been a major theme of our home for quite some time. The three-year-old grows more fascinated with th...

I'm generally of the opinion that blogging, like love for Harvard undergrads, means never having to say you're sorry, but I feel I ...

Like so many people my age, I was raised on the Beatles—I think I took either my mother or father's copy of Magical Mystery Tour  to my ...

I'm generally not much for holiday-themed children's books, which are often as uninspired and gimmicky as the impulse-buy specials f...

Putumayo 's compilations of children's music are such reliable standbys in the genre, so consistently good, that I end up never writ...

When you talk about letter books, you usually mean ABC books, a genre for very young kids that could probably keep the board-book publishing...

Graphic novels have gained a great deal of respectability since I was a kid. With the possible exception of Herge's Tintin books—and tho...

I'm a little late to the party, but in case anyone missed it, I wanted to point out the winners of the 2011 Fids & Kamily Music Awar...

As huge fans of Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret , our family was very interested in the film version. Its director, M...

Picture books for the youngest readers can be many things—beautiful, moving, offbeat. But sometimes children (and their parents, too) are ju...

In their new chapter book, The Cheshire Cheese Cat , Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright put a couple of twists on the old "what if a...

Brian Selznick's 2007 children's book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret , followed the path of every author's fantasy: It got magni...

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. ...

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've written a few times before about the wonderful Scholastic Storybook Treasures series of DVDs, which created animated shorts out of ...

As I've mentioned before, it's always especially thrilling to get a great new children's CD from an artist I don't already k...