A week ago Monday (January 18, 2010), at the American Library Association conference in Boston, Mass., the 2010 Newbery and Caldecott Awards...

On Monday (January 18, 2010), at the American Library Association conference in Boston, Mass., the 2010 Newbery and Caldecott Awards were an...

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...

Is it who someone is? Or what they do? The story of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, suggests that a hero is a com...

When I first launched Twenty by Jenny back in April, I mentioned that some of my favorite memories of growing up involved my brother and me ...

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 ...

The best fantasy stories take us to a place that, at face value, seems completely unlike our own, and then create just enough parallels to a...