Finally, Adam Rex has addressed the truth of the matter in a hilarious picture book called Nothing Rhymes With Orange . Maybe, you too,...

The most outstanding board books look simple, and reveal layers of meaning as toddlers spend more time with them. Rhymoceros by Janik Coat...

Laura Vaccaro Seeger A deep and abiding friendship between two very different personalities forms the core of Dog and Bear: Tricks and ...

Dav Pilkey with his Hallo-Wiener Photo credit: Karyn Carpenter Oscar, the Dachshund hero of The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey, is a masc...

Jan Thomas Jan Thomas takes true toddler scenarios and finds the humor and fun in them, as she does in A Birthday for Cow! Pig and Mo...

Children glom onto the refrain of Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed because it states the obvious—“The doctor said, ‘No more monkeys...

Lissa Evans At one time, author Lissa Evans produced comedy shows. Comedy is all about timing. The humor must be paced exactly right or ...

On Monday, January 10, Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile, won the 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel A...

Do you remember telling scary stories around the campfire or at sleepover parties? The best scary stories were always funny, too. I...

Last weekend, I had the privilege of leading a discussion of five humorous picture books at Book Fest at the Bank Street College of Ed...

Melody Brooks, who narrates Out of My Mind , brought me right back to fourth grade reading class at Parkwood Upjohn Elementary School in Ka...

When we are in a country where we don’t know the language, we look for clues—visual clues. We watch the expressions on people’s faces to gau...

I’ve just returned from a two-day silent retreat on the Hudson River. I try to do this once or twice a year. Every time I go, I’m amazed by ...

Children begin to take in a great deal of information very early on. They know that if they eat all of the food that’s good for them, they w...