William Low Books that prompt children to explore the world around them are rare treasures, and Daytime Nighttime by William Low is on...

Mitali Perkins Mitali Perkins gives readers a journey to an exotic land in flux in her novel Tiger Boy . The village itself mirrors you...

Jean Craighead George In Galápagos George , Jean Craighead George wrote about the last of the great Pinta Island tortoises of the Gal...

Kevin Henkes Kevin Henkes has tackled such early childhood preoccupations as a new sibling ( Julius, the Baby of the World ), a new sch...

The design of Countablock is as enticing as the text by Christopher Franceschelli and the illustrations by Peskimo. Young children can tou...

Paul Fleischman Paul Fleischman gives young people a different set of tools for improving their world in Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind t...

Interior from You Are My Baby: Garden When spring arrives, nature's creatures come out. You Are My Baby: Garden by Lorena Siminovi...

The simplicity of Nest by Jorey Hurley is astonishing--the spareness of the art, and the economy of language. Just 14 words describe an en...

The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Julia Kuo, begins as the story of an intergenerational family and transforms into a lo...

Robin Page and Steve Jenkins create a model of how to present science for young children with their book My First Day . They start by tel...

Mary Murphy's ( I Kissed the Baby! ) latest board book , Quick Duck! , attests to why her storytelling is ideally sui...

It is harder than one might think to accomplish what Jerry Pallotta and Shennen Bersani do in Butterfly Colors and Counting . They take a v...

Laura Vaccaro Seeger Let us meditate for a moment on the art of Laura Vaccaro Seeger.  She reinvents the picture book genre, the...

Spring is my favorite season. Having grown up in Michigan, we waited patiently, very patiently, for that first golden spray of forsythia to ...

One of things I love most about Marla Frazee’s projects is the way she chooses them. “When I read a book to consider illustrating I don'...

There are many reasons to read and reread Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Matt Phelan. True, it conveys the concept of hi...

March of the Penguins (2005) is the first film I can think of that informed mass numbers of children about the important role fathers often...

The Water Hole by Graeme Base is a great way to bring awareness to youngest children about other animals around the globe, their habitats a...

I was 13 when I first visited Walden Pond. It was 1976, the Bicentennial, and my father had a professional conference to attend in Boston. H...