Fabulously flamboyant, from her inimitable pink frocks to eyes so thick with mascara that the late Clive James compared them to “two crows that had crashed into a chalk-cliff,” Dame Barbara Cartland ...

Barnett is the Library of Congress' newest National Ambassador for Young People's Literature ... Barnett's plan is to focus on picture books. "The picture book is my favorite art form," he ...

But Barnett says the picture book form doesn't get the same respect as other types of books – which he finds offensive. "Because we're dismissing kids," he said. "And if we think that children's books ...