The picture book is often dismissed or even ignored. Partly, that’s because people don’t understand how picture books work. This is a unique art form with many formal peculiarities, most ...

The books have sturdy pages that even the youngest can easily turn or flip again and again. Being spiral-bound, the books stay open so children can hold ta rosary too. Colorful drawings by Stacey ...

E-picture books, the buildup to which had required a substantial front-end investment by publishers, failed to catch on, in a replay of the CD-ROM muddle of a decade earlier.

And I’ll begin with the best group of picture books (for age six and under) you’ve ever seen in your life. Cordially, M.F.K. By Margaret Ford Kieran December 1954 Issue Share Saved Stories ...

Children’s picture books are a glorious art form Mac Barnett, the new national ambassador for young people’s literature, explores innovative storytelling hiding in humble places all around us.

It seems unfair to announce a list of best books without revealing the criteria of judgment. It is true that the vogue for identity politics that has swept into children’s literature (and the ...