As an Upper West Sider in Manhattan, I live among Orthodox Jewish families. Parents drop off their children at the school on my block. I see...

Rita Williams-Garcia has many gifts. One of them, which may be hardest to achieve for any writer, is her ability to fill in only the details...

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

Board books are the ideal format for toddlers, and certainly they are safe for newborns, too. But even better for babies are cloth books. Th...

There are so few Christmas-themed books aimed at teens, and I’m hard pressed to think of any with the staying power of Katherine Paterson’s ...

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Eva Nine in The Search for WondLa , written and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, feels certain that the...

Who knew that the story of the birth of Jesus could be told so simply yet so completely? In The Child in the Manger , Liesbet Slegers distil...