Elizabeth Wein If you and your teen, like me, enjoy an unreliable narrator--one who sees things that he or she does not share with us as...

Ambassador Walter Dean Myers (l.) and Justin Tuck New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck received the annual Impact Award for his fou...

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

The mother in Little Bear’s Little Boat by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter serves as a model of how to instill confidence in...

The central paradox of Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, is that the thing that gets Ismae Rienne banished from her fellow Bretons (the scar l...

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

Poetry gives us a way to look closely and contemplate deeply things we take for granted. In the Sea by David Elliott, illustrated by Holly ...