It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

As any designated bedtime book reader knows: novelty is key. If you are ready to depart from the well-trodden tried-and-true, here are 10 new picture books that NPR critics and staff loved in 2024.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Twelve recommendations for fans of the Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club series. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the librarian at Dorr ...

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney has been contemplating mortality. Specifically, Greg Heffley’s. In “Partypooper,” Kinney’s latest “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book (out now from Abrams), ...