This weekend (Feb. 22 to be exact) marks the centenary of the birth of Edward Gorey, an artist whose work has wielded a ridiculous amount of...
We’re all influenced by how we see the world. Sometimes that view is clear and sometimes it’s a bit fuzzy. Adjusting our “lens” can help us...
If you asked me to make a list of children’s book topics that have the potential to go horribly wrong, love would be right at the...
In the past few years, my journeys have taken me around the world. My audiences are mostly young people in middle school and high school. No...
Rodari insists on literature and creative writing’s centrality to a child’s schooling, and urges us to approach the subjects with a sense of delight and an...
COUSINS IN THE TIME OF MAGIC, by Emma Otheguy; illustrated by Poly Bernatene Time travel can be a funny thing. A risky one, too. When it...
SCATTERGOOD, by H.M. Bouwman Narrated by 13-year-old Peggy Mott, part of a loving, tight-knit farm community, H.M. Bouwman’s new middle grade novel brims from the get-go...
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak. The...
