It’s not often that you meet your heroes, but I did a decade ago at a London book launch. I noticed a pleasant older man ...

Birdsall’s latest novel, The Library of Unruly Treasures, follows Gwen MacKinnon, another memorable young protagonist. When ...

Beloved author Allan Ahlberg, who wrote the children’s classic Funnybones, has died aged 87, his publisher Penguin Random ...

Remember that magical feeling of getting lost in a children’s book as a kid? As adults, revisiting those same pages can feel ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

Over the past decade, the number of picture books that parents can read to young children about personal boundaries and ...

"Macbeth" for babies? "War and Peace" for toddlers? Utah author Jennifer Adams creates board books that introduce icons of ...

British author Allan Ahlberg, who published more than 150 children’s books including “The Jolly Postman” and “Each Peach Pear ...

When the news broke, one of my editors phoned. I had a contract with him for a children’s book about slavery, and though he’d approved the final draft, he was nervous.

In children’s books with adult heroes, children get to conspire alongside their elders. Defying the too-often adversarial relationship between adults and children in literature, such books ...

Allan Ahlberg, author of over 150 children's books including the classic “Each Peach Pear Plum,” has died at 87. Publisher ...