The Graveyard Book was 20 years in the making, according to Neil Gaiman in his 2009 Newbery acceptance speech. He first got the idea for th...

When I first started teaching (and that was 20 years ago now), Halloween was all about the costumes and the candy and who could get the most...

How many times have you seen a scary movie and laughed in relief at a false alarm? Laughter is our preferred way to release tension. Harriet...

The theme that unites Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia is to remain awake. With its miles of cement curbs, stop signs, and perfectly m...

When Sharon Creech and her editor, Joanna Cotler, talk about how they began to work—and continue to work—together, they both say that it all...

Yesterday I was talking with a school librarian friend in her office when a third grade teacher came by requesting a picture book about “inc...

Alison Jay in her book 1 2 3: A Child’s First Counting Book encourages children to really look at things. With all of the details she inclu...