Cartoonist and children's book author Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel New Kid in 2019. New Kid also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Kirkus Prize. Craft ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

This essay by Jerry Craft is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. But what so many of today's protesting ...

It’s that time of the year when you’re making your list, checking it twice, for gifts that spark a love of science for the kids in your life. Ira talks with Mahnaz Dar, young readers’ editor at Kirkus ...

It’s never too early to put your life in order, say Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, authors of two books for young readers based on The Home Edit organizing and lifestyle brand they co-founded in 2015 ...

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Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Makes it Big is the singer's third children's book, following Coat of Many Colors and I Am a Rainbow Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She ...