You Know, for Kids

The lack of postings since November had probably made this a bit obvious, but I figured I might as well make it official: A job change that...

Full disclosure: I grew up a half-mile from Symphony Space on Manhattan's Upper West Side (I recall going to some of the very earlies...

When I first heard that Elena Moon Park, one of the regulars in Dan Zanes 's band for some years now, was coming out with an album of ...

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 ...

Since I'm on a grammar kick of late , I should mention a second source of no-really-it's-fun learning on the subject that Dash has...

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 ...

I'll admit to having been spoiled a bit by They Might Be Giants . It was hard not to be, when a band of which I had already been a lon...

As I grew older and out of children's chapter books, all those years ago, I kept only a handful of favorites on my bookshelf. I'm...

We always feel a bit guilty when we let our two sons sit watching videos for long periods of time. But let's face it: Sometimes it...

As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...

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...

It's been a summer of plenty for our family when it comes to kids' music: Nearly all our favorite artists  have put out new albu...

I've said it before, but I keep finding new evidence: There's something special about Australian-born picture-book authors and ill...

Well, I had intended, in advance of our family's recent vacation in western Ontario (where, I was warned by my in-laws, Internet serv...

I guess the first big wave of all-star music compilation albums for charity came in the 1980s, coming off the high-profile all-star singl...