You Know, for Kids

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—...

I sometimes worry that my enthusiasm for Recess Monkey has reached a point of absurdity, but I come by it honestly: The Seattle "tea...

Twenty years ago, Seattle was the epicenter of new music for us Gen-Xers...so I suppose it's not surprising that in 2012, it would be...

Many great picture books for young children are existential at root. (The works of the late Maurice Sendak are merely one notable example...

By now we've come to expect a certain (high) level of quality from Aardman Animation —after all, these were the animated movies we sta...

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 ...

Spring brings many wonderful things each year, but I only recently realized that one of them is "new albums from all my family's ...

The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...

Griffin, our three-year-old, is having a little trouble with opposites; he transposes them. On a cold night, when he wants another blanket...

It seems like a lot of icons have been leaving us lately— Levon Helm a couple of weeks ago, followed by the equally terrible news last we...

At the Recess Monkey show in New York last weekend (fantastic, of course), I finally had the pleasure of meeting two fellow kid-entertai...

Dean Jones is everywhere. In the kindie-music scene, anyway: Producing albums by leading lights of the genre like Recess Monkey , The Deed...

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...

Regular readers of this blog are likely tired of hearing me rave about my family's fave kids' musicians by now, so let me try to e...

I'd mostly seen chapter books thus far from the New York Review Children's Collection , those masters of reissuing forgotten class...

A quick Friday bulletin to parents in the NYC area: The annual Kindiefest music conference is coming up later this month in Brooklyn, the w...

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...