These are ideal conditions for the creation of real art. So it should come as no surprise that some of the best books published in the last hundred years are children’s picture books.

Our spring 2025 Children’s Preview issue includes a look at the shifting social media landscape, our comprehensive A–Z listings of forthcoming children’s and YA titles, and more.

By now there were more books in my lap than on my bookshelf. I saw the same pattern in all the children’s book art I loved — in all art really — from Picasso to Sophie Blackall.

E.H. Shepard illustrated a map of the Hundred Acre Wood for A.A. Milne's The World of Pooh (1957). E.H. Shepard / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. If you look inside the front and back of the nearest ...

Soon, all children’s publishers were eager to acquire books by talented graphic novelists focused on the topics that middle-grade readers cared about. “It was such an exciting moment,” says ...

On Saturday, June 24, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., visit for the Golden Books Family Day, where kids and adults can create, listen to stories, and leave with a free book and Art @ Home Kit!

The picture book is a powerful, flexible art form whose audience — children — are keen and sensitive observers, new to our world and alert to its beauty and strangeness.