What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

From old classics to new, here are the kids' books we love to read again and again. We found the best books by age, from ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the realm of beloved children's books that are worth a ton of money, there are very few that have joined the million dollar plus club.

For many, books are a staple of childhood. There is so much enjoyment found from flipping through the colorful pages of a book while the words are read aloud to you. Some children's books often hold ...

Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African American girl, a Girl Scout Brownie with pigtails. Carla Hayden, a ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to contend with the racism in an old children’s book. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Recently my aunt gifted me my father’s copy of Dr. Seuss’s “And to Think That I ...

Even in a world populated by devious wolves, beauty shines through occasionally. By Pamela Paul The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to contend with the racism in an old children’s book. By Kwame ...

In times of change, the future of children’s bookselling arguably lies in how stores have refined or reinterpreted longstanding programs, such as author events, book fairs, and subscription book boxes ...