It's our job to make books that kids want to read. And what we're talking about there is not a book as an educational tool or some vector for a lesson that an adult wants to impose upon a kid.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss is the ...

A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ books. These are the children's books they relied on.

While many of 2024's top books are new, a scan of titles revealed a striking number of repeats that also appeared on numerous most-borrowed lists in 2023, including Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros, The ...

It’s been a good 20 years since I began writing about children’s books for The Wall Street Journal. To mark the milestone, my editors requested—perversely, if you ask me—that I select the ...