Nonprofit organization PEN America released a list of the most banned titles on Jan. 27 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Katsushika Hokusai, from Drawings for a Three-Volume Picture Book (c.1823–33) The museum has now published the manuscript of nearly 200 ink-on-paper drawings for the first time, following a major ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

Sweeping book challenges and bans across the country resulted in thousands of titles being removed from library and classroom shelves during the 2021-22 school year, according to the nonprofit ...

Over 2.7 million American children currently have a parent who is incarcerated. Meanwhile, an increasing number of picture books have been published that represent the experiences of children with ...

From binkies to nap time to believing in Santa, there are plenty of things you grow out of as you age, but reading picture books is definitely not one of them. There's a whole section of the bookstore ...

Across the United States, communities have rallied in support of Asian Americans after horrific attacks and targeted murders. Groups like Compassion Oakland have assembled volunteers to chaperone ...

In the Movement for Black Lives, artistic contributions can serve as a form of activism and protest, and there has been an urgent call for diverse books created by Black authors and illustrators.

On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.” As we interviewed children’s publishing professionals while compiling this list, ...